March was a busy and exciting month for the St Andrews Hedgehog Friendly Campus team! We held our first litter picking event, with a team of students volunteering their time …
Active Travel Blog: March 2021 Events Guide
By Nikki Moorhouse What’s happening in Active travel this March? Wow, how did it become March already? It certainly feels like it has come around fast this year. Fortunately though …
Skill Share: Making a Toga
In this Skill Share blog we take a quick look at how Jo and Tristan made their very own toga using old bed sheets. A neat activity for the family …
Eco-Anxiety Cafes in St Andrews
Written by Rector’s Committee Climate Action Coordinator, Heather Fortune. Think, listen and feel for the climate. University of St Andrews’ Rector’s Committee and Transition St Andrews launch eco-anxiety cafés for …
Updates from the Hedgehog Friendly Campus
A message from Hedgehog Friendly Campus: The University’s Hedgehog Friendly Campus initiative is well underway. Hedgehog Friendly Campus is a national initiative sponsored by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society to …
Green Film Festival 2021 Review
A review by Green Film Festival volunteer, Hannah Ruskin-Dodd. As many of us are conducting both our work and personal lives online now, it’s clear that film provides a lifeline …
Job: St Andrews Active Travel Network Project Worker
Transition St Andrews is looking for an experienced community development worker to help engage residents and businesses in a programme aimed at making walking, wheeling and cycling safe and desirable …
Together Let’s Bounce Forward
No doubt the past year has been tough but it has taught us some valuable lessons about society and the climate crisis. The harder lessons: just as inequalities and injustices …
Seed sowing at home
Scotland has a short but intense growing season which can be extended by 3 to 4 weeks by getting seedlings started early with a bit of warmth and cover before …
Active Travel Blog: What is St Andrews Space for Cycling?
Guest Blog by Eva Groeneveld It’s February 2021 and an easterly wind is blasting snow flurries outside while we all hunker down and hope for warmer weather to come. Not …
Interhall Environment Competition: #GreenArts
We are back to another disrupted start of a semester which has sadly impacted the re-start of the Interhall Environment Competition. This month’s theme was originally all about litter picks …
The Tree Reopens!
Written by Francesca Paini. The Tree Student Volunteer Welcome back to semester 2! As things slowly pick up again, The Tree too has reopened. We have moved to delivery only to …