TRAC Guidance - Costing Approach – 18th Jan 2012

TRAC, Transparent Approach to Costing, is the standard methodology used by UK HEIs for costing their main activities.

Tags: costing | methodology | trac

Engineers of the 21st Century – 18th Jan 2012

A Royal Academy of Engineering initiative to encourage change in the engineering profession in the UK, so that it can makes a positive contribution to sustainability.

Tags: engineering | engineers | 21st | century

The London energy efficiency fund (LEEF) – 18th Jan 2012

The LEEF is to invest in energy efficiency retrofit to public sector-owned and occupied buildings.

Tags: energy | efficiency | buildings | retrofit

EAUC Introduction to sustainability elearning module – 18th Jan 2012

A EAUC Member only resource which provides a 20 minute 'introduction to sustainability' elearning module to use as an engagement tool.

Tags: engagement | student | staff | tool | week | induction | elearning | freshers'

Jisc Guide: Improving energy efficiency in your data centre – 18th Jan 2012

Most colleges and universities have some sort of data centre. Ever-increasing data storage and processing needs mean that the energy needed to run the computers and to deal with...

Tags: higher education institution | environment | energy efficiency | retrofit | electricity | cost reduction | engineering | Further Education Institution | data centre | information technology | comsumption

Green Impact – 18th Jan 2012

Green Impact empowers individuals and departments to reduce their environmental impact by encouraging, rewarding and celebrating practical environmental improvements

Tags: NUS | impact

Degrees Cooler Project – 18th Jan 2012

Degrees Cooler was an NUS 2009-2011 led collaboration between Student Switch Off, Green Impact Universities, and People & Planet’s Going Greener campaign

Tags: NUS | cooler | degree

Sustainable ICT in further and higher education: SusteIT final report – 18th Jan 2012

This report on sustainable ICT, produced for the Joint Information Services Committee (JISC) was by Professor Peter James and Lisa Hopkinson at the University of Bradford.

Tag: ICT

A guide to display energy certificates – 18th Jan 2012

A guide to Display Energy Certificates and advisory report for public buildings

Tags: efficiency | reporting | buildings | estates

HEIs - community engagement examples – 18th Jan 2012

Examples from 5 universities of projects encouraging community engagement

Tags: engagement | community

Greener Unions technical toolkits – 18th Jan 2012

In the 2008/09 academic year NUS Services ran two technical projects designed to find out how the equipment found in most students' unions could be managed most efficiently

Tags: toolkit | technical

Defra - Recycling & Waste – 18th Jan 2012

A webpage link to Defra's policy on reducing and managing waste.

Tags: waste | recycling | DEFRA

Waste Online – 18th Jan 2012

Waste Online is a library of documents relating to sustainability, waste use and resource use. It provide information for people from all locations and of all levels of knowledge.

LGEC Sustainable Skills project – 18th Jan 2012

For the past three years, Lancashire Global Education Centre’s (LGEC) Sustainable Skills project has been working with several colleges in the North West looking at how...

Tags: ESD | FE