Amy Pay, Author at The Oxford Blue

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Environment

Sustainability in practice: an interview with St Hilda’s head gardener

by Amy Pay October 21, 2025October 21, 2025

Environment

Innovation, Economics and the Ocean: An Interview with Electra Delagovia

by Amy Pay June 13, 2025June 14, 2025

Environment

Chat, are we cooked? Generative AI’s staggering environmental impact

by Amy Pay May 29, 2025May 29, 2025

Outside OX1 Week 4: USA, Sudan and Iraq

Amy Pay Nov 10, 2025 13 min read

The Editor’s Note Welcome back to this week’s edition of Outside OX1! With term half-way over already, the deadlines are coming through thick and fast…

Luddite Renaissance: Eleven Months with a Dumbphone

Amy Pay Nov 10, 2025 7 min read

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“The first days and weeks were like a rebirth. The magnetism of and cravings for my smartphone faded as it lay turned off in a…

Rising and Falling

Amy Pay Nov 10, 2025 2 min read

‘I write when it’s late, when there’s rum on my breath and salt in my hair’. Ava Doherty’s reflection on waves and creation.

Second Draft: Introductions and long words

Amy Pay Nov 10, 2025 5 min read

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“I now find myself saying things like, ‘Let’s meet at plodge’, ‘Have you bought your sub fusc?’ and ‘I need to pay my battels’ with…