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Around the world there is growing attention to sustainability (including at KU Leuven). The many students' associations in Leuven that are engaged in sustainability and are...
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sustainability | curriculum | students | Ecocampus (Belgium) | KU Leuven | entrepreneurship
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The participating organisations form a heterogeneous group, in which each organisation focuses on education, involves learners and/or provides services to educational...
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sustainability | ESD | students | Education for sustainable development | Ecocampus (Belgium) | Artevelde university college | networks
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The OVAM Ecodesign Award for students is open to all students enrolled in design studies for 3-dimensional products, such as product development, industrial design, product...
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sustainability | students | Ecocampus (Belgium) | design | OVAM | competitions
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John Bailey, Sustainability Manager, University of London emailed the Members’ network asking,
“While everyone is still feeling fresh from the Christmas break...
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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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In this EAUC Member Spotlight, see how Sheffield Hallam University's sustainability programme engages staff and students to ensure progress against our environmental...
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sustainability | university | spotlight | member | member spotlight | Sheffield Hallam
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This example is a Christmas message from Kingston University Sustainability Hub and is a seasonal way to share information about the sustainability achievements for the past year.
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sustainability | data | communication | infographic | graphic | Kingston University
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In this Meet a Member career profile, see how Beatriz Acevedo (Senior Lecturer and Artist) is teaching and working with students on sustainability in her role at Anglia Ruskin...
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sustainability | ESD | curriculum | member | research | career | profile | Meet a Member | meet | career profile
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In this Meet a Member career profile, see how Aled Jones, Director, Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University manages an interdisciplinary research institute...
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sustainability | ESD | curriculum | member | research | career | profile | career profile | Meet a Member | meet | director | Institute
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In this Meet a Member career profile, see how Liz Russell (Waste and Recycling Manager) is focused on the operational side of waste and recycling management, promoting...
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sustainability | waste | recycling | member | career | profile | Meet a Member | meet | career profile
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University of London present their 2015 Annual Sustainability Report
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sustainability | report | sustainability report | London | University of London
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This presentation on 'Walking the Sustainable Talk' was given as the opening keynote at the EAUC-Scotland Conference 2015 by Professor Dave Reay, Professor of Carbon...
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sustainability | Scotland | conference | leadership | University of Edinburgh | 2015 | Learning and Teaching | EAUCS2015 | shared responsibility | graduate
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JCU’s innovative Green Bike Fleet program gives new love to abandoned or unwanted bikes. The program has restored over 260 bikes, which are then sold to students.
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sustainability | Student Engagement | recycling | International | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | bike | james cook university
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Professor Grant Guilford is the current Vice Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington. Since taking the role in February 2014 he has already made a significant impact in...
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sustainability | International | leadership | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | Victoria University of Wellington
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Greening RMIT is a student-run project dedicated to promoting sustainable food and gardening on campus. Through hands-on education and community building events, we hope to...
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sustainability | Student Engagement | International | food | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | garden | RMIT University
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C15Hack was Australia’s biggest green innovation hackathon. 41 students worked in small teams to tackle 7 different challenges from across the campus and Melbourne city-wide
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sustainability | Student Engagement | International | biodiversity | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | The University of Melbourne
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Six years in and the Green Gown Awards Australasia continue to grow! This year we had a record number of 43 finalists, representing 22 institutions, all vying for the most...
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sustainability | International | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | brochure | finalists
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Colin has collaboratively led the curriculum development processes at La Trobe to help embed sustainability across all undergraduate courses an Australian first
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sustainability | education | curriculum | International | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | staff | EFS | La Trobe University | ACTS Award of Excellence
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Lucy has just completed her second year of university, during this time she has demonstrated a great passion and commitment to sustainability in the JCU Community and Cairns...
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sustainability | engagement | International | student | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | james cook university | ACTS Award of Excellence
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Australia’s fastest growing University of the last decade is now one of Australia’s most sustainable Universities
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sustainability | International | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | best newcomer | Australian Catholic University
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Creating Sustainable Futures commenced as an interdisciplinary unit on climate change, it has evolved into a process for, as well as product of, Education for Sustainability (EfS)
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sustainability | education | curriculum | International | learning | teaching | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | skills | EFS | Deakin University
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The GreenSkills Training Centre is an award-winning catalyst for change in the built environment. A training facility for students studying sustainability courses, it is the...
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sustainability | International | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | training | built environment | Central Institute of Technology
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The Sustainability Program has grown since 2006 to include initiatives across leadership and governance, facilities and operations, learning teaching and research, and...
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sustainability | engagement | International | learning | teaching | research | leadership | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | facilities | governance | partnerships | Operations | The University of Melbourne | continuous improvement-institutional change
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The Furniture and Equipment Re-use Service offers a range of workstations, storage solutions, and other items for sale at a low cost, presenting a sustainable and economic...
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sustainability | waste | recycling | International | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | facilities and services | furniture | re-use | Equipment
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USC is a Water Refill Campus that provides bottle refill stations, fountains and water refill vending machines that dispense chilled and filtered water in place of selling...
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sustainability | International | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | water | facilities and services | University of the Sunshine Coast | refill
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La Trobe University ICT Department donated 40 sets of computer peripherals (monitors, keyboards and mice) to help Whittlesea Council roll out a project to build computers and...
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sustainability | International | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | community innovation | La Trobe University
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University of Tasmania
IMAS Building: more than just a building
The IMAS building was constructed to provide a contemporary new home for the Institute for Marine and...
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sustainability | International | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | built environment
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Since 2007 Victoria University of Wellington has been reducing its carbon emissions. Stationary energy and transport were identified as target areas
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sustainability | energy | International | carbon reduction | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | Victoria University of Wellington
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The key output from this project is a set of inspiring yet workable standards for tertiary sustainability education that articulate what constitutes essential learning for...
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sustainability | International | learning | teaching | Green Gown Awards Australasia | 2015 | skills | collaboration | tertiary education | Sustainability Consortium for Learning Standards
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Need a little animation in your day? We promise it counts as work! Check out the 4:37 animated video created by Sustainability Illustrated and based on the work of...
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | learning | University of Salford | research and development | classrooms | primary schools
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In this EAUC Member Spotlight, see how Ulster University is embedding environmental sustainability into its operations and business activities.
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sustainability | university | spotlight | member | member spotlight | Ulster University
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On 1 October, I attended EAUC member ifs University College's Financial Sustainability Symposium in London. The day programme was packed with inspiring speakers from those...
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sustainability | financial | ifs | financial sustainability
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A report on sustainability in tertiary education has been released by the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC), National Union of Students (NUS),...
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sustainability | NUS | tertiary education | sector | state
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Cardiff Metropolitan University present their 2013/14 Sustainability and the Environment Report.
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sustainability | report | sustainability report | Cardiff Metropolitan University
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In this EAUC Member Spotlight, see how University of the West of Scotland is committed to reducing their carbon footprint through embedding a sustainable carbon culture.
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sustainability | Scotland | university | spotlight | member | member spotlight
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Dan Fernbank, Energy Manager, University of Reading, emailed the Members’ network to say,
“We’re considering set up an environmental fund to support...
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sustainability | university | Member responses | CSR | funds
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | college | enterprise | sustainability champion | volunteering | fashion
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | enterprise | sustainability champion | volunteering
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | waste | university | recycling | behaviour change | sustainability champion | volunteering | art
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | policy | reuse | sustainability champion
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | fairtrade | sustainability professional
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | partnership | sustainability professional
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | sustainability professional
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | sustainability professional | KPIs | GRI | IR
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | college | collaboration | volunteering | sustainability professional | fashion | upcycling | recyclin
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | college | behaviour change | policy | sustainability professional
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | research | sustainability professional | storage | helium
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | behaviour change | sustainability professional
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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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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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sustainability | green gown awards | waste | Scotland | Student Engagement | recycling | food | transition | garden | University of Stirling | orchard
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | education | university | sustainability champion | anthropology
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | education | university | sustainability champion | Welsh language
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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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Read the 2015 NUS/HEA reports on student and employer demand for sustainability. Executive summary of both reports available here.
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sustainability | students | NUS | sustainability report | HEA | employers | 2015 report | 2015 NUS report
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | waste | university | ESD | learning and skills
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | ESD | curriculum | learning and skills
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | college | carbon reduction | learning and skills
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | ESD | learning and skills | inspire | ESDGC
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | curriculum | learning and skills
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | education | Student Engagement | university | ESD | engagement | collaboration | outreach
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | Student Engagement | university | gardens
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | Student Engagement | university | cycling | disabled
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | Scotland | Student Engagement | University of Edinburgh | collaboration | volunteering | social responsibility
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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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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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sustainability | green gown awards | Scotland | Student Engagement | behaviour change | Edinburgh College | gardens | orchards
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | energy | university | construction | research and development
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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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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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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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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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sustainability | green gown awards | education | university | food and drink | hospitality | beer
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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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Through Professor Jeremy Sanders’ inspirational leadership, the University of Cambridge’s approach to embedding sustainability into the institution’s thinking,...
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | education | university | curriculum | learning and skills | rio+20
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | catering | food and drink | certification | accreditation
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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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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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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | facilities and services | logistics
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | recycling | water | facilities and services | USA
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | waste | university | facilities and services | recycle
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | facilities and services | car-free
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | behaviour change | food and drink | soil association
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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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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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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | procurement | food and drink | farming
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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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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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In this EAUC Member Spotlight, see how Cardiff Metropolitan University is aiming to manage its operations in ways that are environmentally sustainable, economically feasible and...
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sustainability | university | spotlight | member | member spotlight | Cardiff Metropolitan University
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | community innovation | restoration
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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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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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sustainability | green gown awards | energy | university | lighting | community innovation
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | college | learning | teaching | community innovation
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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 | green gown awards | waste | university | reuse | recycle | community innovation
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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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sustainability | green gown awards | university | continuous improvement | environmental management
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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 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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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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Actually bananas are not that bad when you consider their carbon footprint!
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