Strategy 2030
As a University, our role in transforming individual lives and positively impacting society is unquestioned, and this is something that we will continue to do through Strategy 2030
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At the event launch on 16th February 2022, students submitted their creative writing pieces on Sustainability and Social Injustice, which you can read below!
Poetry
by Samantha Bixby-Bland
You’re in a dilemma
when you’re holding a little crinkly
package that says,
“Recycle me!”
But there are no recycling bins in sight.
You’re in a pickle
and left with the decision
to toss it with the rubbish
(you heartless monster)
or stick it in your pocket
and walk a few odd miles
and hope that, eventually,
you’ll find the proper receptacle.
These are the moments of sustainability.
The everyday.
The done all too often,
all too forgotten.
The moments that might matter
if you think about them enough.
You can look like an environmental Poindexter
one minute
and a yoga mat-toting new millennium hippie
the next.
It’s as if there’s no room
for anyone else,
but sustainability can,
and should, and does
go beyond whiteness
and the many labels
given to push it
out of vogue,
out of cool.
We’re left to wonder if our little piles of moments
truly matter in the long run
when we measure them against the mountains
of bigger, earth-threateningly large problems.
Instead, think of each action
as a voice
heard by those closest to you.
A voice that says, “The world can change
when we act. When we
do the little things, we change
the mindsets that make the impossibly big stuff
possible to change, and you
can be part of it, too.”
Moments