Imperial Climate Action

If you can’t DM due to the “online safety act” then either get a VPN or email us for the link. ica@ ic email.

There is an open letter from scientists (PhD+) to MPs telling them to attend this. You can DM us for the link if you haven’t already signed.

Pleased to see a few names from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social there already.

Cinema city, norwich WED 19 nov 6pm £10-£14 Panellists Pete knapp director Helen benyon author RUPERT READ climate majority project BRIDGET MCKENZIE climate museum uk

My film Fires and Fascism at Norwich (Cinema City) on Wed 19 Nov with a great panel to discuss the far right afterwards:
@rupertread.bsky.social @helenb92.bsky.social @bridgetmck.bsky.social

Get your tickets from Picturehouse: www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...

Trailer: fires-and-fascism.co.uk

Tuesday 18th Nov - 6pm - Chemistry 640A

Come to our first journal club social! We will be discussing the work of @swaziadam.bsky.social:

The Wins Of The Grassroots Climate Movement In The University Of California: Never Doubt That A Small Group Of The Committed Can Change The World

Published ⬇️

Sign up now for these! Applicable to finding links with other cruel industry too.

Imperial’s is on Friday 7th Nov 5:30pm at SKen campus. Please sign up for details!

www.solid-sustainability.org/uk-workshops...

Fires and fascism “I’m positive. I’m always positive. When people talk about collapses, that’s great opportunity to actually change stuff”, Fernando explained to me. He had recently narrowly escaped his house burning d...

Re-reading this article about the film: felixonline.co.uk/articles/fir...

(Do you read Felix? You should... we'll be posting their articles about the Imperial Zero Index in the coming days)

There will be a Q&A afterwards with filmmaker (and ICA Alumni member) @peteknapp.bsky.social! Join us for this evening's event. All welcome.

#documentary #community #wildfire #Greece #Italy #Spain #Portugal

Advert for film screening. Fires and Fascism is showing at Imperial College's cinema, in the Union building, Beit Quad. Tickets are £5, or £3 for student members. Open to the public.

TODAY 6pm!
Imperial's Cinema is screening Fires & Fascism, which links wildfires of Europe with past fascism, big business, organised crime, and the far right. It shows communities engaging in direct action and rewilding, fighting back. Open to public!

www.imperialcollegeunion.org/shop/student...

‘No place for academic or policy silos’ - Sir Brian Hoskins introduces this Annual Lecture

Joint Trade Unions Joint Trade Unions

If you’d like to help:

Write to the Provost or your Head of Department urging Imperial to reopen pay negotiations.

Join a union: imperial.ac.uk/staff/joint-trade-unions
.
(PhD students can join UCU for free.)

Share this post and help spread the word.

Joint Trade Unions Joint Trade Unions

Imperial UCU members are on strike today and tomorrow.
This action covers all parts of the College — academic, technical, administrative, and operational.
It’s about fairness, dignity, and pay that keeps pace with the cost of living.

Scientists Responsibility Summit Berlin 11. October 2025 9:00-18:00 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Dorotheenstr. 24, 10117 Berlin https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/scientistsresponsibilitysummit/

Tomorrow: Scientists Responsibility Summit!

What is the appropriate stance of scientists in the polycrisis? Let's develop practical paths for a transformative role of academia.

🏛️Attend in-person at HU Berlin: blogs.fu-berlin.de/scientistsre...
💻 Streaming (Webex): tinyurl.com/nh5kpt4e

Strategy Our ambition? To set a global benchmark for university sustainability that is forward-leaning, evidence-based and practical

Ready for 2025-26?

Imperial is asking how it can be ready for 2026-2030 and beyond in their sustainability strategy consultation. The survey is still open until 5pm today:

www.imperial.ac.uk/sustainabili...

If you want to work with like minded folks to pressure ICL more, get in touch with us!

LIVE: Exposing Vice Chancellors across the UK - VOTE YES #WeAreTheUniversity YouTube video by UCU - University and College Union

UCU LIVE NOW!

Watch to see how we are exposing Vice Chancellor pay in the UK 👇

youtube.com/live/rZRbCP0...

#WeAreTheUniversity

Coming up this Thursday!

Find out how you can be part of the movement to end fossil fuel sponsorship at the Science Museum.

You'll hear why parents, educators, arts & cultural workers have all joined the Science Museum Boycott.

Join us: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@cultureunstained.bsky.social

In this new piece I argue that the climate crisis cannot be solved within capitalism. I think we need to take this fact seriously and consider what it means for the climate movement.

Link in the reply.

Material realities: Who needs ‘critical minerals’ and at whose expense? - Global Justice Now Over half of minerals designated as ‘critical’ by UK play no major role in the green transition - and are driven in a large way by militarisation.

"This report...finds over half of minerals designated as ‘critical’ by the UK play ‘no major role’ in the green transition, and that the often-harmful mining of these resources is being driven in a large way by militarisation."
www.globaljustice.org.uk/resource/mat...

Neon pink background with No symbol, overlaid with the words Science Museum boycott

Culture, education and academic boycott of the Science Museum until Adani & BP are dropped as sponsors!

🎨👩‍🔬✍️ We - writers, academics, performers, artists, scientists, musicians, culture workers - refuse to contribute to Science Museum events and activities and will refuse contracts with the museum…

The Nakba never ended. It is ongoing today. But so is the Palestinian resistance. Stand with us on Thursday. Photo of tents on Queen’s Lawn with a banner stating “Imperial College Liberated Zone”

Imperial College London Action for Palestine will be on Queen’s Lawn today at 12.30.

Climate justice is anti war and anti colonisation.

Thrilled that the panel discussion at the end of day 1 of FoLaT included *multiple* student voices talking about #sustainability education.

(We hear that this isn’t always the case across Imperial initiatives and events.)

Thanks
@imperial-edu.bsky.social
@ic-cep.bsky.social and others!

The keynote speaker emphasises change, transdisciplinarity.

Could the STEMM-focused @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social perhaps learn from and with the social sciences in order to move towards a healthy future for all?

Divestement petition supported by @peopleandplanet.bsky.social

We are here - with a poster on Fossil Fuel influence in education! Check out the article on the work in Felix:

felixonline.co.uk/articles/a-c...

Imperial College London Divest From Fossil Fuels! | People & Planet Add your voice, sign the petition.

Are you attending the Festival of Learning and Teaching @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social today?

Opening talk, thoughts: where’s the evidence that engagement with fossil fuel co creates positive change, as Hugh Brady keeps saying it does?

Sign the petition:

peopleandplanet.org/petitions/im...

University of Sheffield - STOP Partnering with Drax Drax is a biomass power plant in North Yorkshire. It’s the UK’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, as well as the world’s number 1 tree burner, and relies on millions of pounds of UK taxpayers’ money ...

Why do universities partner with such destructive projects as Drax? To find out exactly why Drax is so damaging, and sign the petition to University of Sheffield, click:

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/un...

@axedrax.bsky.social

YouTube video by Flight Free UK Travel, flying and the climate crisis (Exeter)

The recording of yesterday's event in Exeter is now available to watch at our Youtube channel: youtu.be/8ScmwbBxgpA?...

Featuring @jamesgyke.bsky.social @vipulpatel.bsky.social @sarahfinch.bsky.social @annacycles.bsky.social

Thanks to all who attended and to @exeter.ac.uk for making it a success!

Booking closes tonight! Power Shift. 7-9 March 2025 - Chester. People & Planet's student activist gathering. Join us for a weekend of panels, workshops, talks and trainings on how to take action on climate and migrant justice

⏰ Booking for Power Shift closes tonight!!

🙌 Join us for a weekend packed full of workshops, talks and trainings on how to take action on climate and migrant injustice!

🌮 Food and accommodation are included!

Register before 23:59 TONIGHT! peopleandplanet.org/about/power-...

While I don’t fly, don’t eat meat, etc

I feel the most important things I can do as a scientist to combat the climate & ecological emergencies

are activism & advocacy

Totally agree. Educators have a sad duty to perform, at all levels.

Imperial College has an optional non-credit bearing course on climate change - but it's very shallow. Plus, it has its head in the sand when it comes to techno-fixes.

Are we doing our students a disservice?

Join us on Tuesday...

This looked great! In related info: here's some great analysis from Felix felixonline.co.uk/articles/her...

which also mentions the win from Plant-Based Universities felixonline.co.uk/articles/pla....

Join ICA at our Sustainability Fortnight event next Tue: forms.office.com/e/2HG8FFmYdP

cartoon of a stereotypical older white male scientist giving excuses for why not to engage in climate action. graph showing results of survey showing most scientists don't agree with these excuses: 32 and 51% of those surveyed agreed or strongly agreed that scientific or academic institutions have a responsibility (to act), and 77% of those surveyed disagreed that advocacy diminishes their credibility. Come to our welcome event at South Kensington Campus, 16:30, 4th March 2025. Register at the link in the post.

Get involved with climate action at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social !

Welcome event next week: 4th March, 16:30

Sign up here:
forms.office.com/e/2HG8FFmYdP