Sustainability Institute and Forum (SIF)

You are invited to an amazing event occurring at RU that aligns with SIF's mission. Award-winning journalist Thin Lei Win will give a lecture at Reykjavik University on Feb 14th about the issues with our current food system, including environmental destruction, inequity, and negative health impacts. The food system is responsible for nearly a third of man-made emissions and a major cause of biodiversity loss, with a few corporations controlling much of the food chain and many food workers struggling to make a living. Over 3 billion people cannot afford healthy diets and some go hungry. The solution is to transform the food system to be greener, fairer, and healthier, but it will require a collective effort.

On January 26th, Reykjavik University will host a visiting lecture in M103 by Dainius Martuzevicius and Inga Stasiulaitiene from Kaunas University of Technology. They will discuss environmental performance of flue gas/polluted air treatment technology and applications of Life Cycle Assessment to support sustainability. The event is organized by Jónas Þór Snæbjörnsson and the Sustainable Institute and Forum (SIF).

SIF's lecture series returns for the 2022 - 2023 school year on November 15th with a lunch and learn lecture. The lecture will feature SIF's three initially funded PhD Research Projects from 2021. Rachel Brophy, Albert Alonso, and Brandon Velasquez will provide 15 minute presentations on their research and what the future holds for it.  

Students in the third year of Applied Energy/Mechanical Engineering at Reykjavik University worked on an interesting project last week in the Practical Project course, where they built a model of a Geysir.