Other Event Archive

• Waste Exchange Scheme – 8th September 2010

  Business Sustain in partnership with the National Industrial Symbiosis Program (NISP), is pleased to announce a FREE workshop that seeks to identify profitable links between companies so that unused or previously discarded resources are recovered, reprocessed and reused by others. The programme uses...

• RE:FIT Building Energy Efficiency Seminar – 3rd September 2010

  The London Development Agency, in association with the Mayor of London, would like to invite you to attend the RE:FIT Building Energy Efficiency Seminar taking place on 3 September 2010 at City Hall. To confirm your attendance please complete the online registration form by Friday 20 August.  RE...

• ACES 2011, Conservation Conflicts: Strategies for Coping with a Changing World – 22nd August 2010 to 24th August 2010

  FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: ACES 2011 CONSERVATION CONFLICTS: STRATEGIES FOR COPING WITH A CHANGING WORLD INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND POLICY CONFERENCE, Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability (ACES), ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND, AUGUST 22ND-24TH 2011 Welcome to our cross-disciplinary conference focused on ...

• Sustainable Campus Development - Tools and Networking, Shanghai – 27th July 2010

  This ISCN Symposium will serve to explore the pivotal role University campus communities can play in fostering sustainable development of cities and in society at large. Campus communities can serve as role models and living laboratories developing technical and design solutions as well as best pra...

• Preventing Water Pollution – 14th July 2010

  Site drainage has always been "out of sight out of mind" and many companies only look at drainage when they have a problem. Pollution incidents occur every day as a result of spillages, accidents, negligence or vandalism - sometimes the pollutants put human health at risk and often they devastate wi...

• CPET Sustainable timber procurement training workshop – 14th July 2010

  Venue : Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), Whitehall Place Cost: Free About The Central Point of Expertise on Timber (CPET) will be hosting regional training workshops to aid and assist central government departments and publically funded bodies such as universities to develop, im...

• The Energy Consortium Regional Conferences – 9th June 2010 to 29th June 2010

  The 2010 TEC conferences will focus on a theme of supporting sustainability in education and the wider public sector, with opportunities for you to hear from a range of leading experts in the energy sector, participate in informative workshops, and network with peers at the accompanying exhibition. ...

• National Sustainable Schools Conference June 2010 – 4th June 2010 to 25th June 2010

  This successful annual conference gives you the chance to hear national speakers, network and share experience with like-minded participants, access and review new resources, and for you to plan your year ahead. Teachers and students understand that we must live and think more sustainably and our sc...

• Higher Education and the Sustainability Challenge – 22nd June 2010

  Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world and higher education is uniquely placed to play a leading role in sustainable development and help the UK meet its targets. With many institutions are already reducing their own carbon footprint through energy efficiency and better...

• New and Refurbished Laboratories at the University of Newcastle – 21st June 2010

  This free event features presentations on University of Newcastle's new BREEAM Excellent Medical Sciences New Building (the focus of the morning) and its refurbished Bedson Chemical Laboratory (the focus of the afternoon). Tours of both will be possible. The Medical Sciences New Building houses l...

• The University of Southampton’s Mountbatten Building and Sustainable Clean Rooms – 18th June 2010

  The University of Southampton's striking new Mountbatten Building - which has 820m2 of state-of-the-art clean rooms for work on nanotechnology, bionanotechnology and photonics - embodies "21st century scientific research in a sustainable, academic setting". So said the judges when selecting it for a...

• Good Laboratory Housekeeping for Environmental Improvement – 17th June 2010

  This free, interactive, workshop, at the University of Oxford will highlight the environmental benefits of good housekeeping, and discuss how it can be achieved, with an aim of participants taking away concrete ideas that can be located in their own laboratories. Click here for further details ...

• Sustainable Laboratory Chemistry - New Challenges and Effective Responses – 14th June 2010

  This free workshop covers topics such as introducing sustainability into the chemistry curriculum; key sustainability knowledge for chemists; opportunities to minimise chemical consumption and costs, and to increase safety, through micro-scale experimentation and chemical management; the benefits ...

• 'Place Based Learning' for Sustainability & Global Citizenship – 11th June 2010

  Annual Conference run by London South Bank University's Education for Sustainability (EFS), followed by the official launch of the London RCE Date: Friday 11 June 2010 Venue: London South Bank University, London, SE1 ‘Place-based learning’ (sometimes Place-based education) is...

• Good Laboratory Housekeeping and Environmental Improvement – 11th June 2010

  NOTE - UNFORTUNATELY THIS EVENT COULD BE AFFECTED BY THE PROPOSED BA STRIKE. IF IT IS WE WILL RESCHEDULE FOR JUNE 15 AT THE SAME TIMES. This free, interactive, workshop, at the University of Bradford will highlight the environmental benefits of good housekeeping, and discuss how it can be achi...

• Laboratories: Best Practice and Future Trends – 10th June 2010

  This one day conference is organised by the UK Science Park Association (UKSPA) and has presentations by several S-Lab staff and collaborators, plus a workshop on scientific computing organised as part of our Green In Silico project. Click here for further details ...

• Corporate Responsibility Conference – 25th May 2010

  Registration is now open for the Corporate Responsibility (CR) conference at Oxford Brookes University on 25th May 2010. The conference will be focused on moving forward the expanding CR agenda in the HE sector. The day will draw on the experiences of Oxford Brookes University in implementing a C...

• SCHOMS AUDE Workshops – 11th May 2010 to 24th May 2010

  The two-day workshop program aims to challenge the participants’ understanding of the project process to design and develop new generation learning environments in higher education. Typically, learning environment projects in higher education require the input of various professional stakehold...

• Integrating Health and Sustainability – 18th May 2010

  The University of Worcester is running a workshop on the 18th May from 2.00- 4.30 to explore the potential for higher education courses that identify and integrate the links between health and sustainability. If you work in the public or voluntary sector and feel you or your organisation would benef...

• CREATE SUSTAIN ABILITY – 14th May 2010

  The Art Design Media Subject Centre's (ADM-HEA) Annual Forum 2010 will focus on the subject of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). This year's Annual Forum aims to assist and support institutions and art design and media subjects to develop curricula and pedagogy that will help students ...