oikos London news
BedZED Trip 2012 Coming Soon!
Our annual trip to BedZED for 2012 will take place on Thursday, 9th February. BedZED is the UK’s largest zero-energy housing development project and is located in Sutton in the south of London. The project wants to ensure a high quality of life, but at the same time only to use a sustainable amount of resources, i.e. by only using renewable energy sources generated on site and discou ...
Annual Trip to BedZed
Oikos London is having its annual trip to Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) which will take place in January (between 16th and 20th January 2012). BedZED is the UK’s largest zero-energy housing development project and is located in Sutton in the south of London. The project is designed to ensure a high quality of life, but at the same time only to use a sustainable amount of resour ...
Transition Town event on Thursday - get your tickets now!
This week will see our first event of the year - we are going to City Hall on Thursday, Dec 1 (18:30) to attend a meeting with Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition movement. Rob will present his new book, The Transition Companion, and meet with Transition groups in London. Here are the details about the event. I have reserved some tickets (4 GBP f ...
weekly meetings
If you want to learn more about oikos, or want to help us in our mission to educate LSE students on sustainability issues, do pop in to our weekly meetings! We're currently meeting every Friday at 5pm in the 4th floor restaurant (Old building). Visitors are very welcome - just look out for the oikos logo.
We're back!
Good news! oikos London is back with a new committee and lots of plans for the year 2011/12. For the new members (like myself), you're all very welcome! What is oikos? Oikos is the Greek word for "house". It is the root of both "economy" and "ecology", so that gives you an idea of what we're about: Our goal is to educate future leaders (i.e. LSE students :-) ) abou ...
oikos Society Documentary Screening Event
NEXT MONDAY, October 25th, Date: 25th October 2010 (Monday) Time: 1830-2030 Venue: D502 (Clement House)
Join the committee 2010-2011!
Want to be more involved in investigating how sustainability can be promoted through economics and management? Come along to our AGM for the chance to become part of the oikos London committee!
Communicating Climate Change panel @ LSE
The 'Communicating Climate Change' sought to look critically at messaging related climate change and other sustainability issues, and to present some practical insights from the fields of strategic communications, social values research, and psychology on principles and strategies for getting people and organizations to change their behavior for the better. Panelists included Ed Gillespie of F ...
Post Cop15 Panel 26 Feb 17:30
POST-COP15 PANEL SERIES: Challenges, Controversies and Implications for Developing Countries
Communicating Climate Change
Deadline for registration is February 28th. March 8, 2010 6:00 - 8:00 pm D502 (to be confirmed) To register, click 'More'.
International News
Ecosocial Days in Cologne
Continuing to grow? Grow greener? Why to grow at all? II Ecosocial University days are taking place on 11th and 12th of January at the University of Cologne. The presentations, workshops and seminaires are all united under the slogan of economic growth. The theme is being approached from different perspectives: historical, ecological and social one.
Business Can Care - PLP project by oikos Warsaw
Project Business Can Care, organized by oikos Warsaw, was developed during Project Leadership Programme 2011. The main aim of the project was to promote a concept of social entrepreneurship among students of Warsaw School of Economics by introducing them with examples of thriving, Polish social enterprises. To do so project team set on a journey…
oikos Copenhagen - new Chapter in oikos network
oikos’ student movement embodied in the network of student-led Chapters has again broaden its presence and gained representation also in Denmark, said to be one of the most CSR and sustainability oriented countries in the world. From now on 360 – Students for Sustainability run by students of Copenhagen Business School is officially recognized as oikos Copenhagen.
Executive Board 2012 of oikos International
During the Legislative Meeting 2011 oikos Chapters elected new representatives for Executive Board. Starting 1st of December this honoured group of 8 oikees began its one year term to serve and support members of our network. Find out more about these brave delegates.
oikos Photo Contest - Results!
It's been decided! We have a winner of oikos cross-chapter photo competition organised by oikos Tbilisi. Four chapters submitted selections of photographs, which were judged by broad oikos community. Read more to get to know the voting procedure, its outcome and to check out the winning photographs.
Be a Student Reporter at oikos PRI Young Scholars Finance Academy 2012
Take the role of oikos Student Reporter and join an exciting research event in the swiss alps! You can experience five days of high-level in-depth discussions and debates on the topic of ‘Responsible Investment: Risk Management and/or Maximum Impact?’. Interested? Apply until November 30, 2011.
oikos FutureLab Countdown
Not long to go until the oikos FutureLab 2011- first event ever to bring the whole oikos family together. Students, alumni, partners, and faculty from around the global oikos community will soon meet in St. Gallen, Switzerland, to set agendas, define priorities and increase impact.
oikos Spring Meeting 2012 goes to Barcelona!
Dear oikees, cheer and rejoice as the next Spring Meeting will be held in the breathtaking capital of Catalonia. The date is already set: 29.03-01.04.2012, and the theme chosen: Sustainable Mobility. Big thanks to the hosts – oikos Barcelona!