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  EAUC comment on University carbon reduction targets – 21st July 2009

  Please find below a link to an article taken from Tuesday's 21st July 2009 Guardian Newspaper on carbon reduction targets in Universities. The article includes comments by Iain Patton, Executive Director, EAUC, in which he stresses the importance of ensuring "learners are exposed to knowledge an...

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  Invitation to Tender - Promoting Poverty-Aware Procurement on Campus – 21st July 2009

  Closing date - 12 noon, Monday 17 August 2009 The Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) invites tenders for delivery of its Promoting Poverty-Aware Procurement Campus project. Funded by the Department for International Development, the aim of the project is to raise a...

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  Green Britain Day – 9th July 2009

  Everyone's eyes will be on London in 2012. This is our once in a lifetime chance to come together to make a positive difference, and to show the world that Britain is leading the fight against climate change. Team Green Britain is about team work to make life better for ourselves and better for o...

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  Halls Reuse Scheme Guide - OUT NOW! – 28th April 2009

  This reuse implementation guide has been compiled as part of the HEFCE funded project "Moving Towards Zero-Waste". The aim of the project was to work with HEIs in different English regions to implement, improve and extend reuse schemes in student halls of residence and on campus. The EAUC have b...

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  Loughborough wins battle to be the greenest – 14th April 2009

  Loughborough Students’ Union has reclaimed a hotly-contested environmental award for the third year running. The Sound Environmental Impact Awards is an accreditation scheme to help Students’ Unions do their bit for the environment. Now in its third year, over a million students have se...

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  Green Gown Awards 2009 Shortlist Announced – 6th April 2009

  The search is on for the UK’s most sustainable institutions, with 66 universities and colleges now shortlisted for the final stage of the prestigious Green Gown Awards. In their fifth year, the awards recognise exceptional initiatives being taken by higher and further education institutions...

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  University of Leeds Launches a New Course on Sustainable Transport – 27th March 2009

  With the debate around a low carbon future constantly in the news, the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) at the University of Leeds is launching a topical new course - ‘MSc Sustainability (Transport)’. The new course taps into the challenging transport and sustainability policy a...

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  New Technical Toolkits for Saving Energy – 25th March 2009

  In summer 2008 NUS services, the commercial arm of the NUS, secured funding for two new carbon projects: the Supplier Equipment Project and the Ventilation Project. Over the 2008/09 academic year NUS Services worked with over 30 pilot Students' Unions through these projects to identify how money ...

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  Jonathon Porritt Headlines EAUC Conference – 24th March 2009

  Jonathon Porritt, Director/Founder of Forum for the Future is headlining the EAUC Annual Conference, speaking on 1st April. The Annual Conference is being held at the University of Warwick on 31st March - 2nd April 2009. Along with over 30 workshops on all aspects of sustainability this year's Co...

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  Carbon Reduction Commitment Insight Guide - Out Now! – 17th February 2009

  The EAUC has published this abridged version of our forthcoming Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Insight Guide to inform institutions about the CRC, to establish whether institutions qualify and determine the level of support required by the EAUC. Institutions that do qualify have a legal obliga...

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  UK Low Carbon International Marketing Strategy – 9th January 2009

  The UK’s Low Carbon International Marketing Strategy is due to be launched in March 2009. The strategy’s findings so far have been summarised in the attached Interim Report. The final round of stakeholder engagement is being conducted before the strategy’s launch. As part of that,...

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  Carbon projects updates from NUS Services – 12th December 2008

  Following the successful Carbon Academy project, NUS Services is running two new carbon projects this year. Ventilation Project Over recent months a project to deliver energy cost savings through efficient ventilation has been running with NUS member unions. In collaboration with the Carbon ...

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  Sound Environmental Impact Awards – 11th December 2008

  Sound Environmental Impact Awards is now in its third year and is proving more popular than ever with 81 students’ unions signed up this year! Sound Impact is an environmental accreditation scheme with an awards element specifically designed for students' unions. The purpose of the scheme, ...

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  Take Action on Active Travel Update – 1st December 2008

  Update on progress Work on the policy call began in December 2007, when the Association of Directors of Public Health and Sustrans brought together a group of national organisations in public health, transport and the built environment to form a working group to encourage a more active cross-govern...

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  Green Gown Awards Brochure Launched – 24th November 2008

  Universities and Colleges Show the Way to a Greener Future The commitment of 14 further and higher education institutions to sustainable development is recognised in today’s publication of winning and commended entries in the 2007-8 Green Gown Awards. The brochure accompanies the initial laun...

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  BREEAM Higher Education Update – 19th November 2008

  An update and supporting materials on the BREEAM Higher Education scheme have been posted on www.heepi.org.uk. This includes version 2.0 of the assessor’s manual – open for feedback until November 26th – and a proposed credit scheme for laboratories (in the minutes of the Oxford me...

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  Buckinghamshire New University launches Buckinghamshire’s first ‘green’ car club – 3rd November 2008

  Bucks New University launches Buckinghamshire’s first ‘green’ car club Buckinghamshire New University has teamed up with the not-for-profit charity, Commonwheels, to launch an environmentally-concerned, on-campus car club, which will help reduce carbon emissions and improve tran...

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  EAUC Publishes New Display Energy Certificates Insight Guide – 23rd October 2008

  Buildings, in England and Wales, over 1000 m2 occupied by public institutions or organisations providing a public service and where the public visit regularly must now display a Display Energy Certificate (DEC) and regularly produce an accompanying Advisory Report. Although the regulations came ...

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  NUS Services Equipment Project – 3rd October 2008

  NUS Services is running a one year research project over the 2008/09 academic year looking at efficient ways to manage the free supplier equipment used in students’ union bars and retail space. Working with suppliers, manufacturers and twenty-one pilot unions NUS Services is conducting a numbe...

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  Sound Impact Awards Launch Their 3rd Year – 30th September 2008

  The Sound Environmental Impact Awards is an environmental accreditation scheme with an awards element specifically designed for students' unions supported by the EAUC. There are 22 Essential criteria all based around easy-to-implement practical actions that will reduce your union's negative envi...

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