🌿 Dunn School Green Festival Oxford Green Action Week swaps & science 💚 📅 Tues 24 Feb 🍴 Lunch 12:30 🎤 Sustainability Talks 🔬 Lab tours Clothes swap • Plant & seed swap • Charity bake sale • Refill station • Exhibitions Register here: forms.office.com/e/ZeVnwvZiaS... Let’s make research greener 🌍

We were delighted to welcome Pippa from PCR Biosystems on Monday 6th October as part of our Energy Efficiency Day! 💚 They’re supporting our green initiatives by promoting sustainable approaches to research and reducing the environmental impact of l.

🌍 Marked World Cleanup Day at the Dunn School with the WastelessBio Exhibition Big thanks to Matej Metkovic from @WastelessBio for showing us how labs can cut waste, save costs & reuse high-quality reagents and instruments 🔬♻️ Supported our LEAF & Green Impact celebrations in December @dunnschool

How can we handle lab waste more sustainably? Saroj Saurya (@dunngogreen.bsky.social) and colleagues just published this interesting new piece! Have a read! 🌿 academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

Toward more sustainable research: reducing the environmental impact when working with Drosophila

Abstract. The ever-increasing amounts of plastic waste and greenhouse gas emissions worldwide threaten our environment. Biomedical laboratories across the

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We welcomed Marcelo Salierno for a packed day of meetings, lunch, and dinner with students, PIs, postdocs, facility and lab managers all buzzing with ideas. His stimulating talk, chaired by Saroj Saurya, sparked rich discussion & fresh thinking for the environment sustainability in science 🌱

🌱💚 A massive THANK YOU to Hong & Theresa, our food and goods rescue volunteers who cooked, baked, and brought delicious contributions to the Dunn School Cook & Bake Sale during our Green Festival for #GreatBigGreenWeek! Your generosity helped us raise funds for Oxford Mutual Aid!!

Congrats to DPhil student Sofia for winning this month’s Green Group Award at Dunn Drinks! 🏆🌱 She led the organisation of an induction seminar to introduce new members to our environmental sustainability initiatives. #DunnSchoolGreenGroup #Sustainability #GreenChampions

A big thank you to Wayne and Martin for raising the Green Group flag above the Dunn School to kick off Great Big Green Week 🌿🏳️ Proud to fly the flag for sustainability! #GreatBigGreenWeek #DunnSchoolGreenGroup #ClimateAction

🚲 Huge thanks to everyone who came out for the Bike Doctor at the Dunn School yesterday as part of #BigGreenWeek! All slots were fully booked, and the mechanic was kept busy all day—so much so that we even had to turn a few people away! #SustainableTravel #Cycling #Oxford #GreenImpact #DunnSchool

🍰 Huge thanks to the Dunn School Café for donating delicious home-made cakes for our Green Week cake sales! 💚 All proceeds go to Oxford Mutual Aid as part of the Dunn School Festival during the Great Big Green Week 🌍 #GreatBigGreenWeek #SustainableScience #Oxford #MutualAid

Check this out! Clem, Freeman Lab is taking great care of the B&Q plants for our plant swap during the Dunn School Green Festival. A big thank you for her hard work throughout the year fpr Dunn School Green Group! Don’t forget to swap plant or take one & donate to support Oxford Mutual Aid!

🌿 Dunn School Green Festival 🌿 7–15 June @ South Parks Rd, Oxford 🧁 Swaps, bake sale, Bike Doctor (12 June), Green lab tours 🎤 Talk by Dr Marcelo Salierno, KCL , 13 June, 2PM 🪴 Plants kindly supported by B&Q 🤝 Donations for Oxford Mutual Aid #GreatBigGreenWeek #GreenLabs

We’re thrilled to announce that Green Group member Clémence has received the Lab Sustainability Star award for her outstanding efforts in reducing environmental impact- suppliers exhibition, Green Tours, the Food Rescue initiative, and much more. Aakash & Anthony presented the award at Dunn Drinks!!

Huge congratulations to Louise! She’s won a green award for her brilliant community work—taking schoolchildren on nature walks and promoting nature-positive solutions. We’re proud to have her as an active member of the Dunn School Green Group. dunnschoolgreengroup.wixsite.com/insights/ini...

#biologists100 Please come to my poster on Wed at the Liverpool conference and see how the @jrafflab.bsky.social with @dunngogreen.bsky.social @dunnschool.bsky.social is conducting our world class science in an environment friendly way at @ox.ac.uk ! Saving money & planet! There is no planet B!

At the Dunn School Postdoc Symposium, the Dunn School Green Group Chair @Saroj Saurya presented Green Group's efforts to cut plastic waste in research: ♻️ Reducing single-use plastics-alternatives ♻️ Washing & reusing lab plastics ♻️ Recycling lab plastics with Recycle Lab Let’s keep labs greener! 🌱💡

Congrats to this month’s Supplier’s Sustainability Award winner: RecycleLab! Pictured behind CEO Danielle Stephens is the pile of the School’s lab plastic waste which will all be recycled through RecycleLab. Discover RecycleLab’s easy-to-use and cost-effective services here: recycle-labs.com

Wrapping up #OxfordGreenActionWeek with our Bike Doctor, Plant Swap, and Bake Sale. Thanks everyone for participating in our Green Festival! 🚲 🌱 🍩

Day 2 of Green Festival in the Combination Room! With a special sustainable supplier’s exhibition from Greiner Bio-one and more delicious cake 🌱 🍰

Thank you to Danielle Stephens of Recycle Lab and @sarojsaurya.bsky.social for giving such inspiring and engaging talks about their sustainability efforts! ♻️ #OxfordGreenActionWeek

First day of our Green Festival was a delicious success 😋 🍰 These cakes were generously donated by the Dunn School Cafe and all gone by the end of the day! See you all tomorrow for our Sustainability Talks, lunch, and Green Initiative tours 🌱 #OxfordGreenActionWeek

We’re all ready for our Green Festival happening all throughout this week! We hope you’ll join us in one of our many sustainability-focused initiatives 🌱♻️🌍

Join us for Dunn School’s Green Festival running from 10-14 Feb! We’ve got week-long events in the Combination Room as well as Sustainability Talks on 11 Feb from Danielle Stephens of Recycle Lab and our very own @sarojsaurya.bsky.social 🌱♻️🌍 Sign up for talks here: forms.office.com/e/ZQVcw7xsC2

Environmental sustainability is at the heart of the Dunn School. We are committed to driving change through various green initiatives, with a focus on reducing energy, plastic, and food waste. Learn more about our efforts and how you can get involved: dunnschoolgreengroup.wixsite.com/insights

Congratulations to Katerina Toropova and Anthony Roberts, recipients of the Garden Guru award for their eco-friendly, plant-filled offices 🪴 The Garden Guru award is part of our Green Excellence Awards. Learn more about our gardening initiatives: dunnschoolgreengroup.wixsite.com/insights/ini...

Read about Mehadi Hasan's personal journey in sustainable lab practices, comparing resource management in Bangladesh with the structured sustainability approaches at Oxford in @jrafflab.bsky.social @dunnschool.bsky.social @ineosoxford.bsky.social dunnschoolgreengroup.wixsite.com/insights/pos...

Embracing Environmental Sustainability: A Journey from Bangladesh to an English Lab

Moving from Bangladesh to England to further my education and career in science has been a transformative journey. As an MSc graduate from the University of Dhaka and a dedicated lab scientist, my exp...

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