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Consumer behaviour contributes significantly to society’s impact on the environment. Design for sustainable behaviour (DfSB) aims to lower the environmental and social...
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environmental | design | social | impact | beahviour
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This resource consists of the weblink to the factsheets for EU Ecolabels.
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eu | ecolabels | gpp
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The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is an alliance of companies, trade unions and voluntary organisations, working in partnership to improve the lives of poor and vulnerable...
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ethical | initiative | eti | trading
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Responsible supply chain management isn’t just a question of doing the right thing – it makes good business sense. This guide outlines key issues & details a...
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supply chain | BITC
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Achieving Excellence in Construction Procurement Guide in 'Whole-life Costing and Cost Management', published by the Office of Government Commerce in 2007. Link to the...
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procurement | guide | construction | estates operations | strategic | Procurement and Supplier Engagement | Sustainable Construction and Renovation | Out of Sector | costing | cost management
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The UK Government's Sustainable Procurement Action Plan produced by DEFRA in 2007. Incorporating the Government response to the report of the Sustainable Task Force. Part...
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procurement | report | strategic | Procurement and Supplier Engagement | government | DEFRA | Operations | Out of Sector | Action Plan
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This links to asection of the BREEAM website includes case studies on buildings certified to the BREEAM standard.
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energy | carbon | construction | efficiency | renovation
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GreenBookLive is a unique reference source and online listing of environmental products and services, including a list of BREEAM certified buildings and licensed BREEAM Assessors
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Website | greenbooklive
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BRE Global’s website for BREEAM, a design and assessment method for sustainable buildings.
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energy | construction | BREEAM | building | renovation | estate | bre
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This 2011 report, compiled by Ernst & Young, defines the changing meaning of sustainability for a Chief Financial Officer in any organisation, including universities and...
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finance | CFO
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Three presentations delivered at the conference 'How to set up an Environmental Champion Network' held at the University of the West of England (UWE) in November 2011
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network | champion
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A question from Lucy Latham (Carbon Emissions Officer, Newcastle University) on water audits, especially on company selection and savings identification, attracted responses...
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college | higher education institution | resource efficiency and waste | Operational | estates operations | water | Tools | Background Information | audit
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A comprehensive presentation on how to understand, produce, plan and implement biodiversity whilst engaging key groups in the institution.
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EAUC Member responses to a question about whether subsidising staff bus fares for bus services that service campuses count as benefit in kind.
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engagement | community
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Responses from EAUC Members on whether there a link between bus vs. car issues and student attendance at institutions.
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EAUC Member responses to a request for information to help plan the introduction of bee hives on a city centre campus.
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higher education institution | city | urban | bees | hives
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Responses from five EAUC Members about How has the environmental agenda been incorporated into degree courses
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ESD | Education for sustainable development | education for sustainability
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Here is a sample curriculum managers audit, which helped to embed the sustainable ideal in the curriculum during 2010/11 and could be customised to any specific institution.
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ESD | curriculum | example
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This UCU energy inspection checklist is compiled from a combination of Carbon Trust and Prospect checklists and is designed to assess the energy use in your building via an...
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college | higher education institution | resource efficiency and waste | Operational | estates operations | Utilities | strategic | Staff Engagement and Human Resources | Tools
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A response from the University and College Union on meeting the low carbon skills challenge
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carbon | skills | consultation | challenge | low | ucu
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Examples of how four institutions manage biodiversity on their campus.
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Sustainable development in higher education: 2008 update to HEFCE's strategic statement and action plan.
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sustainable development
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UK universities and colleges spend over £50 million a year on water and sewerage (which are usually based on the amount of water consumed) so there are considerable...
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energy | case study | strategy | higher education institution | Operational | estates operations | energy saving | carbon footprint | consumption | target | water management | costs | Efficiency and Waste
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Examples of carbon reduction strategies, plans and initiatives from a number of universities.
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energy | carbon | strategy | reduction | technology | Plan
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Examples from five British universities on how they manage their waste. Links to websites of University of Aberdeen, University of Bristol, University of Derby, University of...
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case study | higher education institution | resource efficiency and waste | Operational | reuse | recycle | reduce | Operations | Website | HEI
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HEFCE's Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) supports HEIs' knowledge exchange activities and interactions with business and the wider community
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HEFCE | exchange
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This guide is one of a series designed to help UCU members engage with their institution on the ‘green agenda’. This is an area that is extremely important and it is...
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Student Engagement | ESD | learning | guide | higher education institution | Operational | Learning and Teaching | strategic | Adult Education | Teaching Research | Leadership Governance | UNDESD
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This significant piece of activity was undertaken by Guild HE in late 2009/early 2010 alongside Universities UK and in discussion with HEFCE
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policy | sustainable development | HE
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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
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toolkit | technical
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Salix has worked with 725 clients across the public sector, including local authorities, central government, schools, universities and colleges and NHS trusts.
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finance | funding
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A guide to Display Energy Certificates and advisory report for public buildings
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efficiency | reporting | buildings | estates
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A webpage link to Defra's policy on reducing and managing waste.
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waste | recycling | DEFRA
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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.
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An organisation working to deliver the skills and knowledge needed to make better places for people now and in the future, focusing on young people, professionals and communities
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communities | agency | homes
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GreenBuild was a LGM project, mainly financed by the four UK funding bodies including HEFCE, and AUDE, with additional support from the Carbon Trust with two workstreams
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HEEPI | greenbuild
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CEBenchbuild is an Excel tool that allows HEIs and FECs to benchmark the energy performance of buildings on their estate and compare it to national yardsticks.
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energy | tool | 2006 | HEEPI | benchmrking
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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...
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ESD | FE
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A summary from HEFCE for measuring scope 3 carbon emissions
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carbon | emissions | reduction | scope3 | indirect
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The output from 3 consultation seminars which contributed to the 2009 sustainable development action plan.
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strategy | sustainable | Plan | developement
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This document is an updated strategic statement and action plan on sustainable development in the higher education sector following feedback received on the consultation...
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education | strategy | sustainable | development | higher
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This document from HEFCE offers guidance for institutions on producing individual carbon reduction strategies, targets and associated carbon management plans.
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energy | carbon | reduction | CMP
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This overview covers the main energy saving opportunities in lighting and presents low-cost measures without compromising working conditions.
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energy | carbon | lighting | technology | trust | saving | low
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This guide discusses; Strategic Overview, Contractual and Project Methodology, Financial Incentives, Renewable Power Technologies and Renewable Heat Technologies
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guide | renewable
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This report is the culmination of a six-month investigation into how different subject disciplines taught within the higher education system are contributing to creating...
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ESD | HE | HEA
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Founded on a similar concept to HEA’s Change Academy programme, Green Academy's focus is developmental – specifically on ESD – and was run as a pilot for the 2011...
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green | academy | curricula
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An update to the 2006 WRAP report "Environmental Benefits of Recycling".
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waste | recycling | wrap | environmental | 2010 | benefits
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Notes from the UCU Sustainability workshop looking at the problems and successes of implementing the sustainable paradigm.
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Student Engagement | college | research | report | leadership | Learning and Teaching | Utilities | strategic | Staff Engagement and Human Resources | Sustainable ICT | Community and Public Engagement | Background Information | Leadership Governance | Education Institution
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The Government Buying Standards (formerly the Buy Sustainable - Quick Wins) have been designed to make it easier for government buyers to buy sustainably.
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procurement | government | buying
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E-procurement (electronic procurement) refers to the purchase and sale of supplies, goods and services through the internet or other information and networking systems.
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procurement | HEFCE
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Article 5 of the EU Energy Service Directive applies to energy usage for all Higher Education institutions.
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energy | savings | end use
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The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive came into force in January 2007 and aims to both reduce the amount of WEEE being produced and encourage everyone...
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reuse | business | it | recycle | government | guidance | Regulations | uk | industry | reduce | Electrical waste | Distributor Takeback Scheme | ONLINE RETAILERS
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A link to find the full details of the EU single market, public procurement guidance.
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procurement | eu | public
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The legislative package of public procurement Directives, approved in 2004 by the European Parliament and the EU's Council of Ministers.
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legal | eu | directive | requirements
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Following a successful first year in 2011/12, Green Gauge, previously known as the Environmental Research Package, from NUS Services was again available in 2012/13.
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research | green | NUS | package | gauge
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Degrees Cooler was an NUS 2009-2011 led collaboration between Student Switch Off, Green Impact Universities, and People & Planet’s Going Greener campaign
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NUS | cooler | degree
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DEFRA's web pages on biodiversity which includes information about protecting biodiversity and ecosystems at home and abroad
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strategy | conservation | natural environment
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Salix has worked with 725 clients across the public sector, including local authorities, central government, schools, universities and colleges and NHS trusts.
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carbon | reduction | finance | lighting
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Salix has worked with 725 clients across the public sector, including local authorities, central government, schools, universities and colleges and NHS trusts.
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carbon | emissions | reduction | finance
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Salix has worked with 725 clients across the public sector, including local authorities, central government, schools, universities and colleges and NHS trusts.
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carbon | recycling | reduction | lighting
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This Universities UK publication showcases the contribution of higher education institutions to this ‘greening’ agenda. Published 2008.
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Universities UK | greening | spires | agenda | greening spires | green agenda
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This technology overview introduces the main energy saving opportunities for motors and drives.
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energy | technology | saving | motors | drives
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A Carbon Trust report on how non-domestic buildings can play a leading role in the UK's transition to a low carbon economy.
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carbon | emissions | buildings | low | reductions
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This guide introduces two types of carbon footprinting that affect businesses.
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energy | carbon
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Practical advice: how to grow your business by improving green credentials. By making a business more sustainable, green growth can lead directly to business growth
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business | growth
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Link to the HiPerBuild programme which takes forward HEEPI's decade long work on more sustainable buildings in universities and colleges.
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college | construction | efficiency | FE | buildings | HE
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A self assessment toolkit developed to promote consistent good-practice in Estates Management by enabling a good-practice standard
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higher education | estates management | good practice | self assessment
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Information on AUDE's sub-group which works on sustainability and reporting to the Executive committee.
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A review and guide to Education for sustainable development and holistic curriculum change, written bu Dr Alex Ryan.
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sustainability | education | ESD | curriculum | sustainable | development | EFS | HEA | holistic
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The AUDE Toolkit for a Sustainable Estate consists of tools and guidance. It assists estates professionals make best use of the physical assets of their university.
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carbon | emissions | sustainable estate
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A curriculum review tool and guide based on searching modules specifications for insights to how they were engaging with education for sustainable development.
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education | curriculum | student | sustainable | development | experience | EDS
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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.
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engineering | century | engineers | 21st
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This guide is one of a series designed to help UCU members engage with their institution on the ‘green agenda’. This is an area that is extremely important and it is...
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college | leadership | higher education institution | resource efficiency and waste | Operational | estates operations | strategic | Background Information | Leadership Governance | Staff Engagement and Human Resources Utilities
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Green Impact empowers individuals and departments to reduce their environmental impact by encouraging, rewarding and celebrating practical environmental improvements
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NUS | impact
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A case study from Harper Adams University regarding the introduction of alternative method of energy: photovoltaics.
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energy | lighting | case | study | PV | photovoltaic
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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...
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higher education institution | environment | energy efficiency | retrofit | electricity | cost reduction | engineering | Further Education Institution | data centre | information technology | comsumption
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EAUC Member responses regarding use of meter data to encourage behaviour change by staff and/or students.
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energy | carbon | change | NUS | data | behaviour | meter
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EAUC Member responses about advice on the options for cooling IT server rooms.
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energy | carbon | ICT | reduction | data | cooling | centre
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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...
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college | learning | guide | leadership | higher education institution | resource efficiency and waste | Operational | Learning and Teaching | strategic | england | Teaching Research | Leadership Governance | South West
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In this EAUC Member Spotlight, see how the University of Liverpool is one of the UK’s leading research institutions with an annual turnover of £340 million, including £123...
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university | spotlight | member | member spotlight | liverpool
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A session from 2011 Conference which attempts to answer this question to ensure we're all prepared!
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green | climate change | economy | green deal
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Laura Wellington’s (City College Plymouth) presentation from the EAUC Annual Conference 2011 about how to make a cycle salary sacrifice scheme work and building partnerships
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cycling | salary | sacrifice
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"Greenthing" is a project to employ a shared Environmental Manager post between five Bloomsbury Colleges of the University of London.
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green gown awards | awards | 2012 | newcomer | Bloomsbury
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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.
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energy efficiency | energy management system
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This guidance document addressing the challenges of implementing the Flexible Framework, offers a simple and straightforward action plan designed to help achieve Level 4
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guide | framework | flexible
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