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Getting Around Kiev (Kyiv)

Kiev is the city where the modern and the old create excellent possibilities for cultural and aesthetical exploration. Nevertheless, before you become a visitor to this incredible city, take some time to figure out at least 2 things: accommodation and transport.

Let us consider selecting a flat. Start by considering what you can afford and your tastes, you could either choose to stay in a Kiev hotel, or rent an apartment. Count the stars on Kiev hotels to evaluate the quality of the service and accommodation and the price you are willing to pay for it.

Kiev has a number of five and four star hotels. There are virtually tens and tens of less luxurious Kiev accommodation facilities. A luxury accommodation will be approximately $400-850 per night, four star hotels will be around $150-$500, 3 star hotels will cost you about $70-300, 2 stars will cost from $50 to 120 and small and one star hotels cost around 25-100 per night.

There are also a couple of hostels in Kiev for youth. In a regular hostel you can find modest but clean accommodation and some sofas or beds in one room.

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Students of Sustainability

This year’s Students of Sustainability conference finally has a venue confirmed and registration is now open!!! This year, the fourteenth annual SoS will be held at Monash (Clayton) University in Melbourne, from the 10th - 15th July.

Registration is still open. Please register if you haven’t done so already! Please note, early bird registration has ended.

Students of Sustainability (SoS) is the largest student-run environment based conference in Australia. Each year SoS offers an amazing opportunity for students, activists, academics, environment and Indigenous groups, and members of the wider community from around Australia to come together to share and gain knowledge, skills and information on environmental and social justice issues. Featuring a vast array of inspiring speakers, practical workshops, field trips and empowering activities, SoS is the most important event of the year for environment activists and people wishing to learn more about how to create positive social change in their communities.

If we could plot out all the intricate ways
that the Students of Sustainability conference
influences
the political landscapes
the natural landscapes
the interpersonal landscapes in Australia

we would weave a web that runs thick through this country and beyond.
woven with stories of blockades, forums, worm farms, bush medicines
and songlines…
Courageous people in Papua New Guinea, Jabiluka, Terania Creek, Kupa
Piti, Melbourne. People who defend the global environmental commons
against great odds, balanced out with those who challenge us to live
simply and efficiently:

If you watched it from afar, you might be tempted to say “But they
are only students”. They do not have any official power…
Yet we are students with the demands of history on our conscience:
Demanding that those in power respect the integrity of the land and its people
and understanding the responsibility and the hope attached to being
young people alive in our times.

And so as we stand amid the violent waves of economic restructuring
of student and environmental movements alike
that several politicians hope will sweep us far out to sea.
Let us know
that we have been in the deep end all along
we have survived, and we are surviving by reaching out to the community.

The legacy of SoS that continues today.
is a living history in the present tense: all the projects and
aspirations of those who have gone before us are still alive today in
some form or another…

Each person who comes to SoS
brings a world with them
and throughout the conference
integrates that consciousness into a larger whole
through their ideas, creativity and energy

leaving the week
with a glow in their eyes
not from radium or some other radioactive substance
but some other kind of chain reaction
that will also last for thousands of years to come.