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 …
Green Film Festival 2021
Written by Hannah Ruskin-Dodd, Green Film Festival Committee St Andrews Green Film Festival is an annual event that takes place between the 8th-15th February, featuring a variety of films, themes, and …
New Active Travel Blog Launched!
Fanfare please… time to celebrate the launch of our very own active Travel blog for Transition. The blog aims to celebrate all things smarter around sustainable travel and transport. Over …
Walks with Transition So Far So Good!
Written by Transition volunteer, Julia LurfovaPhoto Credits to University’s Visual Communications Team Around four months ago, Transition’s Steering group’s members sat down to discuss safe ways in which they could …
Climate Action Fife – An Exciting New Project to Tackle the Climate Crisis in Fife!
A big shout out to Greener Kirkcaldy who will be leading on the exciting new, cross-sector partnership project, Climate Action Fife! The main partner organisations include Fife Council, Fife College …
Novel Sustainability Workshop for University Staff
The Centre for Educational Enhancement and Development (CEED) at the University of St Andrews has recently published a novel and exciting new sustainability workshop for staff. The workshop includes the …
Active Travel: What is an Active Travel Champion? And could you already be one?
By Nikki Moorhouse Every year Transition takes part in and hosts various active travel initiatives in and around St Andrews. Almost every active travel project that we deliver is supported, …
Active Travel: Why is Transition UStA such a well known player in the Active Travel field?
As you may know, we run A LOT of projects surrounding Active Travel in St Andrews. However, what is not so obvious is how we create these projects and ensure …
Active Travel: Covid-19, Active Travel and Transition UStA
Hello and welcome to our new series of blogs focused on Active Travel! To find all of our posts in the future, take a look here on our redesigned smarter …