This provides college and university institutions with specific guidance on embedding sustainability using a whole-institution approach, with inspiring examples of good practice from others are already doing so.
The Guide offers a starting point and signposts the route to more information if wishing to delve deeper. It can also be used by those already on the sustainability journey, as a means to review your direction and destination.
Supporting the guide is the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability (GUPES).
The Guide is structured around the categories outlined in the Sustainability Leadership Scorecard:
Before reading each section, take a moment to pause and reflect on the following questions:
Then, reading the Guide in full, consider how to you'd implement your ideas - what would it take? Who else has done similarly, or made some progress here already?
Recycling and sustainability within rural further and higher education institutions can be difficult without the support and advice that is more readily available to those...
A case study of Elmwood College which used the golf course and farm as living/working educational resources to increase environmental awareness.
A case study from City and Islington College, which donates its old computers to developing countries via the charity Computer Aid.
This case study explores how the Wheeltop Project of Beaumont College uses ICT to support the learning and development of physically disabled students.
When City of Bristol College encountered a growing number of servers with the related power and cooling requirements, it looked at virtualisation mainly for server...
Sustainable ICT in Further and Higher Education, a JISC report, provides useful information on good practice in environmentally sustainable ICT
Elmwood College has adopted an innovative approach for meeting the requirements of the ISO14001 Environmental Management Standard. It uses curriculum as a mechanism for...
A case study looking at City College Norwich who in December 2009 launched a five-year Strategy which contained an objective of developing 21st century environments that are...
Link to the HiPerBuild programme which takes forward HEEPI's decade long work on more sustainable buildings in universities and colleges.
EAUC Member, Wiltshire College, is a large General Further Education College in the South West region. It has a commitment to Sustainable Development and has been working to...
Schneider Electric has undertaken a pioneering project with the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester to improve the college’s overall energy performance.
This pack from the Land Based Colleges National Consortium comes in 3 parts.