“Be green. Be conscious. Be woke. Be a responsible citizen. Don’t use plastic. Recycle!” We all want to be and embody all those things, but sometimes the lin...

Have you ever wondered how exchange students arriving Amsterdam furnish their apartment during their short-term stays?

As the Warm Sweater Day initiative has gained increasing momentum in recent years, the UvA has decided to go one step further.

With the holiday season approaching, many of us will be itching to buy new dresses and jackets to impress friends and family on Christmas Da

Are you, like many others, confused about how to recycle? As waste management has a great impact on the environment, the Waste2Worth research team have ident...

Black Friday, also known as “the day after Thanksgiving”, has grown into one of the busiest shopping days of the year. In the Netherlands, the population of ...

With over 200,000 Instagram followers and millions of views on YouTube, it’s no surprise that the ticket queue for our latest Green Office event with vegan i...

On Friday the 27th of September, climate activists from New Zealand to Norway gathered in their prospective towns to strike for climate just

Minimal Waste Guide #10 – The Five R’s Eleven weeks ago we published our first post on minimal waste swaps to encourage some of you to start your zero waste ...

Minimal Waste Guide #9 - Clothing Hello, hello fellow students, today we would like to talk about ‘fast fashion’. Fast fashion is a phenomena of our 21st cen...

Green Office UvA x Centre for Sustainable Development Studies (CSDS) #1 Mr S. (Samuel) Nello Deakin MSc Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences GPIO : Urb...

Week 8: MWG 8 - Minimal Waste @Home – Spring Cleaning! Have you guys done your spring cleaning yet? If not, instead of getting a variety of chemical cleaning...

MWG #7 – Minimal Waste Guide @Home – Kitchen Edition II Food waste is a problem that has a lot of potential. The worlds food waste counts a worth of 550.000....

MWG #6 Minimal Waste @Home – Kitchen Edition I Food packaging probably makes up a large portion of your weekly waste. Going to the grocery store is almost un...

“Biodiversity underpins the health of the planet and has a direct impact on all our lives.” Imagine a web that connects all living species in this world. Thi...

MWG #5 Minimal Waste @Home – Fe*Male Bathroom Edition Welcome back to a new blogpost, we hope you have all enjoyed our beloved Kingsday! This weeks theme fo...

MWG 4 - Minimal Waste @Home - Fe*male Bathroom edition Welcome back to a new MWG post! We took a short easter break, but now we're back with new tips. Last w...

MWG 2 - Minimal Waste @Home - Bathroom edition Personal hygiene helps us stay attractive, healthy and alive. Therefore we are willing to spend our time and m...

MWG 2 - Minimal Waste @Home - Coffee Edition Last week we had some tips on how to come prepared to campus in order to study comfortably without creating any w...

Hello and welcome to the first blogpost of our Minimal Waste Guide! This blog will be a guide on how to minimize waste in our daily lives. The solutions are ...