Green Office VU

👀Find the Greench on Campus Square and help him collect organic waste for his worm compost!🪱

📍Start point: Main Building- Corner of Restaurant Windows
⏱️11:30-13:30
🗓️Wednesday, June 3rd

👉Only give him unprocessed and uncooked food!

See you on campus!💚

🪴The time has come! The Building Day of Voedseltuin Uilenstede is scheduled!

👉Join us on Saturday, May 30th from 10:00 to 16:00.

📍Meeting point: De Landing, Uilenstede 106

💚Everyone is welcome! No experience needed!

🔗Stay in touch! Join the group-chat through the link in bio

Join us for a creative night at the Green Office VU!👨‍🎨

Let your creativity bloom and your network expand! Meet like-minded people and enjoy an evening of paint, clay, sips, and laughter. 💚

We will provide all materials. If you have a project that you’re working on, feel free to bring your own materials.

📆May 14th, 6PM
📍HG KC-18

🔗Sign-up link in bio

🌼 This spring, we’re going outside.

Welcome to Voedseltuin Uilenstede, a place for herbs, vegetables, and good vibes. Let’s grow food, build together, and start the first community garden at Uilenstede.

Join us for the design presentation!

🗓️ Monday May 11th, 15:00–17:00
📍 De Landing, Uilenstede 106

Come by to see the plans, meet others, and get involved!
In June, we’ll start planting and building benches & picnic tables together.

Interested? Join our groupchat through the link in bio!🫶🏻

Everyone is welcome — no gardening experience needed 🌱

🔗Sign up link in bio

When we cook together, we create more than a meal. 🌱

Join us, Green Office VU and the Vegan Student Association, for a cozy community evening where we will cook Greek Gyros and German Potato Salad, two of the signature recipes from our brand‑new Green Office Cookbook. And of course, we’ll enjoy the feast together afterwards. Because good food tastes even better when the whole community digs in. 🌱🍲✨

📅 11 May
🕓 16:00
📍 Green Office, HG KC‑18

Cook, connect, and create impact with us. 🌿
Be part of the exciting debut of the Green Office Cookbook and taste the dishes straight from its very first pages, shared around one big table.

Join the Green Office for an engaging lecture, “Mental Health in the City”🌆

In this lecture, Dr. van den Bogerd will explore how urban environments shape mental health and discuss ways to design cities that better support psychological well‑being.🧘‍♀️

🗓️12 May,
🕓16:00–17:00
📍HG KC‑18, Green Office

🔗Link in bio

⛏️ Can we afford to lose Earth Sciences at a time of climate crisis? 🌍

In the latest episode of the Green Researcher Podcast, we tell the story of how the VU Earth Sciences department came close to being dismantled, and how students and staff mobilised to save it.

From protests and petitions to national and international attention, this episode explores what was at stake and what this case reveals about how we value sustainability and climate knowledge in academia.

🔗Links in bio

We’re excited to launch Technology in Environmental and Social Systems (TIESS) - a new event series exploring the complex role of technology in shaping both our environments and our societies. This initiative is a collaboration between , , and , bringing together diverse perspectives to critically engage with technological developments and their interactions with environmental and social systems.

Our first event, taking place next Thursday (16 April), will be an expert talk on the broader impacts of generative AI. While AI is often framed as a tool for efficiency and innovation, this session invites us to step back and ask more critical questions: What are the ecological and psychological consequences of its widespread use? Where do responsibilities lie - with individuals, or within larger systems? And what happens when students and employees feel increasing pressure to use AI tools to keep up?

16 April
15:30 - 16:30
VU Green Office (De Boelelaan 1105, VU main building, HG KC-18)

To explore these questions, we are delighted to welcome Lisa Doeland, ecophilosopher and postdoctoral researcher at . In her figuring the ecological crisis she draws on uncanny modes of thinking such as deconstructive thought, psychoanalysis and critical theory.

Join us as we open up a space for reflection, discussion, and critical engagement with the systems shaping our technological future.

🌿 Join us for the lecture “Greenlash: Can law fight the backlash against the green transition?”
Europe’s climate ambitions are under pressure, and the EU Green Deal is facing political pushback. What does this “greenlash” mean and can law help keep the transition on track?

Come along with Clemens Kaupa, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, VU Amsterdam, to explore how law can defend the green transition.

📅 13 April
🕓 16:00–17:00 📍 HG KC‑18, Green Office

✨ Sign‑up link in bio!