Since March 2018, Hey Girls has been working closely with partner schools, colleges and universities to help distribute period products. As free period products...
Delegates had the opportunity to dive a bit deeper into the Governance Guide and Business Case Guide and also hear what this year’s Sustainability Institution of the Year,...
Resource Efficient Scotland held a lighting workshop focussing on how to save energy and money on lighting. There was a detailed presentation which is available to download...
Online Guide on 'How to do Transition at your University or College' published by the Transition Network.
You won’t have failed to notice that technology is everywhere. We can’t drive our cars, use our phones or buy our shopping without making use of at least one of the...
How to stay compliant and sustainable when disposing of unwanted ICT equipment
This Guide offers tools and approaches to meet a college or university’s goals for compliance, environmental performance, and sustainability in a proactive and effective...
The YouthXchange Green Skills and Lifestyles guidebook, which focuses on the challenges, opportunities and good practices related to green economies and societies, is the second...
In the summer of 2016 University of Cambridge had an intern work with them on a project focusing on waste & recycling. One of the outputs from her work was a guidance...
The University of Winchester Staff Travel and Transport Guide 2016/17.
The University of Winchester Student Environment and Travel Guide 2016/17.
The University of the West of England have developed an excellent Sustainable Purchasing Policy and a Guide for Sustainable Procurement. Both of these documents, along...
The Campus Forest project aspires to build, within the same campus, a display of ecosystems characteristic to the biogeographic environment of the Spanish University of Cordoba....
Benefiting from Biodiversity In 2010 University College Cork (UCC) became the first 3rd level educational institution in the world to be accredited with the prestigious...
Records of biodiversity, plants, animals and fungi have been collected at Keele over the past 40 years. These records are available on the Keele website for anyone to use,...
The management of woodland at Queen’s University Belfast is an important part of the grounds maintenance. A variety of semi natural woodland, planted coniferous woodland...
Keele University is situated in 250 ha of landscaped grounds to the west of the Potteries conurbation in North Staffordshire, UK and has a wide variety of flora and fauna. Some...
Keele University has 60 ha of woodlands, mostly planted in the 19th century, including large commercial plantations. For the past 50 years Keele University has managed all this...
The Lisandro Alvarado University has an Agroecológicas Technology Demonstration Centre (CenecoAgro) for combating desertification. Species have been added to the...
Being still within the UN-decade of biodiversity and still being far from reaching the goals in biodiversity conservation at the same time, the consequences of degrading...
University of Wollongong (UOW) has successfully trialled a new method of planting wetland plants in the university pond network. Establishment of plants on pond embankments and...
Fiji National University (FNU), Nature Trust of Fiji and Nature Fiji have discussed a project which would see rainforest being protected in the area comprising the Garrick...
The University of Hertfordshire is unique amongst its competitors as the proud owner of a field centre located in rural Hertfordshire, called Bayfordbury Campus. Bayfordbury...
To meet the needs of an expanding leading university, the University of Cambridge has commenced the development of a site covering around 150 hectares in North West Cambridge....
In the past 2 years SRUC have planted over 800m of new hedges and drawn up a maintenance plan for our hedges that will allow a variety of growth types, increasing their habitat...
The quad at the centre of the Michael Smith Building has been established as a biodiversity garden, including a large pond, raised flower beds, wild flower mixtures and areas of...
Growhampton is a sustainability initiative with a big focus on food growing. It was established in September 2013 (initially funded by the NUS Student Green Fund) and is...
Scouts from the local Scout group have came on site and carried out a bug survey in a range of habitats on the course. The information from the survey was uploaded onto the Opal...
The cityscape that provides the backdrop for the University of Leicester is characterised by many various types of buildings both old and new with the main campus home to...
The golf course is often left with pallets from deliveries and these began to build up in quantity. Greenkeeping students practical classes used the pallets and other waste...
Aston University has seen a lot of redevelopment of its city centre campus over the last few years. Listed below are some of the features which we’ve incorporated into...
At the University of Stirling, students are encouraged to undertake projects focused on campus issues. This provides a wide range of project opportunities, stimulates action on...
The golf course has been lucky enough to be awarded two tree packs from the Woodland Trust comprising over 800 native trees. The trees have been planted on the golf course by...
The golf course has introduced wildflowers to a number of sites on the course and we plan to continue this practice each year. At the moment we have just under 1Ha of meadows....
The golf course has an environmental working group called the GEO steering group. The responsibility of this group is to work together in strengthening the course’s Golf...
The golf course features 3 ponds and all of which contain healthy populations of Palmate newts, frogs and toads along with many more water invertebrates. The ponds have all been...
In 2014 SRUC replaced 150m2 of grassed verges on our entrance road with a native annual wildflower meadow. The meadow was received well by visitors to the course and removed the...
As part of our commitment to sustainability, our university has committed to increasing the land used on campus for growing food and biodiversity. With this in mind, we...
Over the course of the year, a number of community and environmental projects have come to fruition at Birley Campus. A joint Insect hotel project is well underway between...
Oxford Brookes University Centre for Ecology, Environment and Conservation has developed an iPad Toolkit, which enables users to efficiently conduct Phase One ecological...
This autumn, two groups of architecture students created Bug Hotels for Headington Hill Hall Gardens and Harcourt Hill arboretum. The bug hotels provide nesting areas for...
Loughborough University has begun the development of a Science & Enterprise Park to the west of the main campus. This area of campus and the adjoining habitats are the most...
The vision of Fruit Routes is to plant fruit and nut trees along cycle paths and footpaths planted by people who live, work and pass through these places. The project focuses on...
Dr Duncan Westbury, Institute of Science & the Environment The University of Worcester is committed to enhancing biodiversity on the land it manages through its Strategic...
This year 20 varieties of apple, plum, cherry and pear trees were planted at our recently opened Birley Campus. With the help of Hulme Community Garden Centre who for the...
The biodiversity value of the campus is considered a priority by the University, so conservation is of the upmost importance and all development projects carried out on campus...
The Biodiversity Index is an interactive web-based tool that enables people with little knowledge of ecology to do a rapid but scientific assessment of the level of plant...
A large proportion of the development comprises of grass covered surfaces, including natural sports pitches, parkland grassland, amenity grassland and reinforced grass...
The wide variety of trees and plant species on campus are an important factor in enhancing and preserving a high level of biodiversity. A large proportion of trees on campus are...
A mixed native wildflower meadow was planted to encourage a diverse range of flora and fauna. Mixed mass bulb planting provides a colourful display which blooms from spring...