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Castle Irwell Flood Basin Project – keeping Salford dry
Floods from the River Irwell periodically devastate the lives of the families and businesses in the Lower...
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Get Kilmarnock Active
The “Get Kilmarnock Active” initiative was a ground breaking innovation designed by Ayrshire College staff and students to promote health,...
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Bristol Parkhive
Bristol Parkhive is an innovative, collaborative and unique project developed by University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE) in partnership with Bristol...
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Low Carbon Oxford week – Pop up green events across our city
Now in its third year, Low Carbon Oxford Week (LCOW) is bigger and better than ever. The concept was...
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North West Cambridge Development - Creating a long-lasting, sustainable new district for the University and City of Cambridge
The North West Cambridge Development is a new...
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#LoveYourClothesBangor
Bangor University, in partnership with WRAP’s Love Your Clothes campaign, Age Cymru, British Heart Foundation and Antur Waunfawr, challenged...
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Changing Views: Re-naturalising the Hogsmill with a little help from our friends
The project aim: change how communities perceive the undervalued Hogsmill River. Kingston...
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Diamond Wood – A new woodland for biodiversity and the community
The University of Nottingham's Diamond Wood, close to the University's Sutton Bonington...
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ESRI - The Energy Safety Research Institute – The first BREEAM OUTSTANDING Educational Building in Wales
The Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) is a 3900m2,...
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Mainstreaming sustainability
South Lanarkshire College, East Kilbride, constructed the first building in the UK accredited as “Outstanding” BREEAM (2014) for...
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Actively reducing energy use by going ‘passive’
Presented with the challenge of building a fit-for-purpose, early-years childcare facility for the children of its...
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Sustainable refurbishment of the Cockcroft Building, University of Brighton
In repurposing the Cockcroft Building for the University of Brighton, one of the largest retrofits...
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The Enterprise Centre: Celebrating localism and low carbon futures at UEA
The University of Anglia’s (UEA) Enterprise Centre (TEC) is one of the UK’s most...
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Embracing the carbon reduction challenge
Keele University has reduced its carbon emissions significantly thanks to a dedicated programme of carbon reduction projects...
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Soft landings: Keeping it REAL
At the University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol, Soft Landings is all about keeping it REAL: Realistic – Embedded – Active...
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The sustainability lab@Bangor University
Bangor University aims to become in all aspects ‘The Sustainable University’, aiming for an international and best in...
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Innovating locally, transforming globally: Curriculum development and education for sustainable development at Abertay University
For the first time Abertay has explicitly...
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Carbon vision 2020
In 2010 the Field Studies Council set its vision for 2020 and with the need to reduce carbon emissions a target was set to reduce our carbon emissions by...
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UL Smarter Travel
This project aims to open people’s eyes to alternatives to single-occupancy driving. The University of Limerick (UL) Smarter Travel has implemented a...
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“The Pavilion”
Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is one of the largest and most popular universities in the UK. Nearly 27,000 students study with us across three...
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Finding WEAG!
The Finding WEAG project is the story of how Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) has improved energy awareness among its 10,000-strong community in a bid to...
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Green RAU – Caring for the fields and the beasts
The Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has a history of promoting sustainability - it was founded with the motto...
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This Exchange presentation is from the “Learning and Legacy: The Role of Education in Creating Healthier and Happier Cities” EAUC Annual Conference 2016, presented...
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Groupe ESC Troyes and EPF engineers School launched the Master Innovation, Creation and Entrepreneurship in partnership with the Technopole de l'Aube in Champagne
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The associative and extracurricular life of students is led by the Office for Students which brings together 16 associations and offers comprehensive support for students on...
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The "kitchen garden and feeder" in partnership with the city of Beauvais, Picardy DRAAF gives the ability to people in precarious situations to garden and cook from...
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green gown awards | Les Trophees des campus responsables | gardening | Institut polytechnique LaSalle-Beauvais | Social and Corporate Responsibility | cooking
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Universitι Laval has been engaged since 2008 in a comprehensive approach to sustainable development, and has significant results: 38% of greenhouse gas emissions, 19% of water...
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The club DD "Vert'Vet" of ENVT contributing for several years to the realization of projects in favor of biodiversity (botany, aquatic, ornithological and...
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Part of the ambition of the School of Ponts Paris Tech to "be the world reference for research, innovation and training in key areas of sustainable development", the...
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For nearly 10 years, Telecom Bretagne has had a "step by step" approach that has proven very effective in terms of sustainable development and territorial roots
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With “At Universitι Laval, I’m for SD!” Universitι Laval takes a structured, community-wide approach to sustainable development to get tangible, scalable results
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Straddling the disciplines of facilities management and scientific research support, the sustainable labs co-ordinator is an emerging role in universities. Martin Farley, became...
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This presentation on 'EAUC Tools' was given as part of a morning workshop on 'Tools and Techniques for Sustainability Management and Reporting' at...
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The 2015 Green Gown Awards Winners’ Brochure which explores the journeys all these institutions have taken.
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The Winners' Brochure for the International Green Gown Awards 2015 which brings together the finalists and winners of these Awards which are growing globally.
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Over three years, the ‘Clever Classrooms’ project analysed the impact of social and environmental factors on learning environments in primary schools.
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The Finalists’ Brochure is now available and will provide you with plenty of reading in the lead up to the ceremony itself!
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Student (Fine Art 2nd year) - Goldsmiths, University of London
Margaret takes environmental conservation to heart. She is one of the more genuinely environmentally...
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When Serena started working at the College in 2009, sustainability was not a core priority. Initially Serena concentrated her work on creating policies, plans and procedures to...
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Director of Sustainability, University of Worcester
Under Katy’s leadership the University of Worcester has developed and maintained an excellent performance profile,...
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Anja has been a one-girl volunteering legend at LSBU this year! She started off by becoming an LSBU Green Bean Society member and provided over 400 hours of volunteering time...
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Vincent’s roll is to provide tools, solutions and the attitude to make his students and colleagues conscious of how much impact, as individuals and as groups we all create...
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Whilst studying Buying and Merchandising at London College of Fashion, Charlotte created the first sustainability society and volunteered on textiles income generation projects...
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Nicola’s “green wins” since starting at Goldsmiths in September of 2012 include reaching the gold standard in Green Impact for the Estates & Facilities...
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First in a new role at the University of Warwick, David has supported and championed projects, ideas and initiatives to improve the impact the University has on its environment
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Rosemary has gone beyond her core role around operational sustainability at London College of Fashion. She is the first person in the role and has quickly developed...
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In the five years as Director of Sustainability Development at CCCU, Peter has been described, by an ex. colleague, as taking the institution from “zero to hero”...
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Alex has embarked on a mission, to converge a place of flourishing learning with being an ‘Edible Campus’. With no formal pedagogical role, he is teaching staff and...
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S-Lab Project Coordinator, King’s College London
Martin Farley has helped pioneer innovative projects in a largely untapped area of sustainability - laboratories. To...
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Dr Aled Jones is the inaugural Director of the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) at Anglia Ruskin University. Over the past four years he has built the GSI from a good idea...
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The Green + Blue Space is the Union΄s hub for environmental engagement. Starting each semester with a buzzing home and kitchenware give away, it hosts a wide variety of...
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A coalition of students, staff and local residents have come together under the Transition Town banner to undertake a range of sustainability projects tackling climate change...
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sustainability | green gown awards | energy | Scotland | Student Engagement | food | behaviour change | travel | University of St Andrews | economy | transition | Transition Network | Transition University of St Andrews | Transition Universities
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Luci believes that to stimulate genuine and lasting change people need to experience how their actions make a difference. Recognising that future leadership demands confident...
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Sustainable Pedagogy incorporating 'social, economic, environmental and cultural' values, is central to Gwenllian’s role, in Higher Education; enabling students...
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An Inspired Education
The Institute of Sustainable Practice, Innovation and Resource Effectiveness (INSPIRE) is a virtual institute, which provides a focus for sustainable...
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The £9.8M Centre for Global Eco-Innovation unites the expertise, resources and global contacts of Lancaster University, the University of Liverpool, and Inventya Limited, to...
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In line with EfSD goals, the newly developed course Interactions with the Environment encouraged students to advocate for the world in light of the Anthropocen
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The ‘Raising the Baseline’ project has taken a systematic, consultative and target-led approach to deliver a coherent and comprehensive offer of ESD across the...
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South West Energy Centre (SWEC) is an award winning, unique facility providing advice, guidance and training to industry and consumers in all matters relating to the Low Carbon...
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Ten, cross disciplinary Discovery Themes have been developed to ensure all students from across the University have access to core knowledge and skills which underpin the Leeds...
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Since 2012, the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge has been developing LED lighting capable of growing a wide range of plants under controlled...
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Creative Energy Homes: Low-Energy and Zero-Carbon Housing – a living test-site for energy efficient technologies
A long-term development of seven “Creative Energy...
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This HEFCE supported project demonstrates the capacity for students to contribute to transforming the city in which they are studying.
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By working in partnership with the Edinburgh University Students’ Association, the University wanted to achieve its vision of creating a culture and environment at the...
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London College of Fashion partnered with Cordwainers Community Garden and artist Zoe Burt to grow and manufacture an item of clothing entirely within London.
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For a very small financial input the UCLan Student Union Student Bursaries have had a far reaching and long term impact on sustainability here at UCLan, transforming packaging,...
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Cycling 4 All uses disabled student engagement as an entry point to sustainability using a social learning model.
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Learn Act Engage Create is the journey through which students are engaged in sustainability during their time at University of Bristol
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Edinburgh College has built up two thriving community gardens at opposite ends of the city of Edinburgh, and is also in the process of developing four community orchards
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Green Guild started in October 2013 encompassing a wide range of initiatives for embedding sustainability across the University community. Three interrelated themes of...
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UAL is the first University to achieve Gold accreditation for the Soil Association’s ‘Food for Life’ certification scheme. This has challenged the University...
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The University of Reading’s Making Beer Green Initiative is specifically focussed on improving the sustainability of its seven bar operations spread across seven sites.
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Through the development of a sustainable framework, which supports both education and learning, the University has undertaken a number of pieces of work towards this,...
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Dr Jane Davidson established INSPIRE in 2012 to lead a system-based approach throughout UWTSD to deliver educational pathways promoting learning, environmental and social...
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Frances Corner has been Head of London College of Fashion since 2005. Throughout this time she has worked to embed the importance of using education to transform lives across...
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The Futures Initiative (FI) mission is to enhance academic staff knowledge, skills and experience in sustainability education to breed leadership in curriculum change
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Through Professor Jeremy Sanders’ inspirational leadership, the University of Cambridge’s approach to embedding sustainability into the institution’s thinking,...
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In the past decade, The University of Dundee has seen a lot of redevelopment taking place on campus. Green space has been created right at its heart with the new Campus Green, a...
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With a 10 year construction programme about to start, UCL took a new approach to managing deliveries on its heavily constrained Bloomsbury campus
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The WaterHub on Emory University’s campus in Atlanta, Georgia is an on-site water recycling system, utilising ecological systems to reclaim wastewater for heating and...
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Laboratories are places where innovative research takes place and where global challenges are solved. But laboratories have a big environmental impact in terms of energy, water...
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Helium is a non-renewable resource and is essential for the operation of MRI scanners and magnets supporting research into drug discovery to cure such diseases as...
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Aberystwyth University is one of only a handful of universities in the UK where 30 40% of food spend in the University’s cafes and outlets is either sourced locally or...
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Over the past academic year, the University of Brighton has focused its efforts on tackling food waste in campus restaurants.
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Lancaster University leads the HE sector in respect of its integrated, cutting edge sustainable food projects such as ‘Edible Campus’. Together, Lancaster...
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Through implementing a comprehensive water management plan the University has reduced its water consumption by 20%; enough water to fully hydrate (8 glasses a day) our 30,000...
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At UWTSD enabling people to connect with one another is central to our institutional mission to reinvent productivity and help staff and students make the most of every moment...
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University of Reading was getting more and more waste toiletries from the guest bedrooms with no way of being able to recycle or give them away and this was known to be a...
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DESIGN+MAKE was a collaborative pilot project with the charity Art Against Knives. It engaged hard to reach young people (18-24) that were potential victims or perpetrators of...
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In order to bring all of Durham University’s environmental initiatives and activities together, the name and concept of ‘Greenspace’ was devised in 2010....
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The University of Leeds is responsive to the needs of its stakeholders and wider community. They asked the University to make a more positive impact on society
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This is a campaign that encourages students at the end of the year to donate their unwanted items - promoting a reuse ethos and creating lasting partnerships across...
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Sustainability is about making changes and inspiring a new approach to the way we live in the world, use its resources and interact with the rest of the ecosystem.
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The project undertook demonstrations of off-grid options using solar PV-based mini/ micro grid systems at four locations in India.
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The sensitive and beautiful restoration of historic Drake’s Place Gardens and Reservoir, and development of related activities, has been undertaken with - rather than for...
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Since 2008, the University’s holistic approach to environmental management has enabled staff and students to come together and deliver significant and quantifiable...
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Enactus Nottingham is an initiative within The University of Nottingham where students are given a platform to create social enterprises focused around solving large economic,...
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The University of Brighton’s Green Growth Platform supports a thriving green sector in Sussex through a menu of 1-2-1 business support, innovation and R&D support,...
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Edinburgh College’s fleet of electric pool cars provide staff with a sustainable, low-carbon, low-cost transport option for intra-campus and other corporate travel.
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Since 2007 the university has been addressing sustainability across the whole institution; sustainability is cited in the Strategic Plan as a core value of the University.
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