Student Switch Off update

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We’ve had a great start to our Student Switch Off campaign.  Around 9% of the residents of Student Village have pledged support to the campaign.  Overall we’ve seen a meaningful reduction in electricity use across the courts, but some have been trying harder than others

There’s been a great response to the photo competitions and we’ve even had one our students’ pictures entered into a national competition – take a look:  www.facebook.com/studentswitchoff

If you’re not already involved but would like to be visit: http://www.facebook.com/SSOLincoln?fref=ts

Vegucated – film screening

Wednesday 23rd January – 7pm, Coop Lecture Theatre 

Vegucated is a feature-length documentary that follows three meat- and cheese

Vegucated-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks. There’s Brian, the bacon-loving bachelor who eats out all the time, Ellen, the single mom who prefers comedy to cooking, and Tesla, the college student who avoids vegetables and bans beans. They have no idea that so much more than steak is at stake and that the fate of the world may fall on their plates. Lured with true tales of weight lost and health regained, they begin to uncover hidden sides of animal agriculture and soon start to wonder whether solutions offered in films like Food, Inc. go far enough. Before long, they find themselves risking everything to expose an industry they supported just weeks before.

 

Visit the Facebook page: http://tinyurl.com/vegucatedLINC

Vegucated website: http://www.getvegucated.com/events/?event_id=652

 

 

Taking on Tarmageddon – 12th December,7pm Coop Lecture Theatre

People & Planet teamed-up with Campbell Road Productions to produce a documentary investigating tar sands oil extraction projects in Alberta, Canada. People & Planet sent 8 students from the network off to Canada to meet with the Beaver Lake Cree first nation who live right in the middle of the biggest industrial project on Earth. The documentary followseach of the students through their investigations documenting their experiences, thoughts and emotions on seeing the impacts of tar sands oil extraction. And the return journey of two young indigenous tar sands activists from Beaver Lake as they come to the UK to share their experiences with young people and politicians here.

After the film they’ll be a discussion with one of the Student Activists featured in the film.  Come along and find out what you can do!

12th December 7pm – Coop Lecture Theatre, Main Admin Building, University of Lincoln