Green Week
Sustainability tour with Professor Chad Staddon
Key Information:
- Date and time
- Thu 03 November 2022
12:30 - 13:20 - Location
- Meet outside X Block entrance (opposite Z Block), Frenchay Campus, Further info
- Contact
- Vicki Harris vicki.harris@uwe.ac.uk
- Cost
- Free
- Attendance
- Booking not required
Description
Join Chad Staddon, Professor of Resource Economics and Policy, for a fascinating tour of sustainability hot spots on campus.
We will take a variety of locations and along the way, Chad will talk about different elements of sustainability as well as the history of the site as indicated in brackets:
- the Walled Garden (gardening, green space and wellness, the Wallscourt Model Farm)
- onto the Farmhouse (the environmental value of the open spaces around it)
- the planted fruit grove
- the nearby pond (water related eco systems)
- the Bee Line
- Wallscourt Park Student Accommodation blocks (water and energy conservation activities)
- the artificial pond behind Education Building (teaching about biodiversity)
- and finally Mallard Pond (sustainable drainage).
Open to all students and staff - no need to register just turn up on the day.
About Chad Staddon
-
Professor of Resource Economics and PolicyA professor in our College of Health, Science and Society, Chad's Area of expertise lies in resource economics and policy; critical political ecology; human-environment relations, water resources, forest resource.
Location
Meet outside X Block entrance (opposite Z Block)
Frenchay Campus
Coldharbour Lane
Bristol
BS16 1QY
UK
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