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Green Impact
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Green Impact is one of three projects within a 2 year programme called Degrees Cooler – ‘greening universities and beyond through behaviour change’; supported by the Greener Living Fund, sponsored by Defra. The other projects within Degrees Cooler are Student Switch off and People and Planet’s Going Greener.
The programme is run by the National Union of Students, with Studentforce for Sustainability providing the resource support, and London Sustainability Exchange monitoring and evaluating the success of the programme.
Due to additional interest in Green Impact, 4 universities are also taking part in Green Impact outside of the Degrees Cooler Programme.
For more information on Degrees Cooler please click here
What is Green Impact?
An environmental accreditation scheme with an awards element designed for university departments. University staff take part each academic year and depending on the number of environmental actions they carry out, can achieve either: a working towards accreditation or Bronze, Silver or Gold award for making their workplaces greener.Green Impact empowers individuals and departments to reduce their environmental impact by encouraging, rewarding and celebrating practical environmental improvements. Green Impact challenges departments to
implement a number of easy practical actions that will help the environment.
Please click here for how Green Impact works
Universities taking part
Green impact is running at the following universities:Within the Degrees cooler program
De Montfort University
London School of Economics and Political Science
London South Bank University
Manchester Metropolitan University
Roehampton University
The University of Manchester
The University of Sheffield
University of Bath
University of Birmingham
University of Bradford
University of Bristol
University of East AngliaUniversity of Exeter
University of Kent
University of Leicester
University of Liverpool
University of Reading
University of Westminster
University of Worcester
Outside the Degrees cooler program
Anglia Ruskin University
City University London
Southampton Solent University
How can you get involved?
Green Impact can announce that NUS and NUS Services are now looking to roll the model out to at least another 15 institutions for the 2010/11 academic year on a self-funded basis.
Please note:
The invite is open to all further and higher education institutions in the UK whose students’ unions are affiliated to NUS
We can bill in advance this financial year if required
The deadline for completed sign-up forms to be returned to me is 5pm on Wed 21 July 2010.
Please see briefing and price list, incorporating a sign-up form at the bottom of the page.
If you are a member of staff or student at one of universities taking part and would like to get involved please contact greenimpact@eauc.org.uk for more information.
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