The Rio+20 negotiations have now concluded and a final text has been agreed. 'The Future We Want' intends to put society on a more sustainable path. The text has yet to be signed off by heads of government and ministers but it is unlikely that any changes will be made to the content of the docum...
Read more →Seven months after its launch, LiFE is continually evolving and participants are actively feeding in and shaping how it develops. We're committed to arming you with the tools you need to understand how it can benefit you and, if you're already convinced, to help you obtain internal buy-in. This is a...
Read more →More than 15 million people in the south and east of England are able to fill paddling pools and water lawns again when hosepipe bans were lifted on Thursday 14 June. Three of the UK's biggest water companies – Anglian Water, Southern Water and Thames Water – announced the end of the res...
Read more →12th International ACTS Conference 26th-28th September 2012, Brisbane The call for papers and presentations submission deadline will close soon! Make sure you send in your submission in by 27th June 2012. Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) invites abstracts from the global ...
Read more →Academy is making strides on sustainability, but water use is on the rise The sector is getting greener on a number of measures - except for water consumption, where there is limited financial imperative to cut down on use. That is the finding of a Times Higher Education analysis of environmen...
Read more →Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) have launched a new round of the Stepping Up in Sustainability Fund on Friday 1 June. The Stepping Up in Sustainability Fund exists to support projects to develop, expand and embed effective approaches to sustainable development, and to share these a...
Read more →According to the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study of Hand Drying Systems done by Materials Systems Laboratory at MIT, Dyson Airblade hand dryers has the lowest environmental impact comapred to all other possible hand drying systems. LCA study with full sensitivity and uncertainty analysis, conducte...
Read more →Next week, 18th - 24th June 2012, is a bumper week for sustainability campaigns. With the EU's Sustainable Energy Week, Recycle Week, and even Bike Week taking place, there are lots of events and promotions to get involved with. EU Sustainable Energy Week, an initiative of the European Commission...
Read more →On Monday 11 June the DECC set out the secondary legislation that will give industry the green light to bring the Green Deal energy efficiency market into operation, alongside measures to strengthen consumer protection and reduce industry burdens and introducing a new, improved energy company obliga...
Read more →Rio+20 will bring together the largest gathering of Heads of State that the world has ever seen. This UN meeting is to assess progress to date and to define new sustainable development governance frameworks and goals. It will provide an opportunity to re-affirm visions for a sustainable future; to r...
Read more →"For the past six years we have completed a waste audit at the University of Southampton, and we’ve always been impressed with the number of our students who are prepared to give up their Wednesday afternoon to sort through rubbish! So, what could be simpler than applying this to our energy ...
Read more →Are you a Student Recycling Champion? A nationwide search for a team of Student Recycling Champions to help spread the green message at Reading Festival, is now open for entry. The brand new competition promises its winners the chance to see behind the scenes at Reading Festival and make a valua...
Read more →We're proud to announce that Learning in Future Environments reached the longlist for the Innovation category for the Guardian Sustainable Business Awards 2012. The Guardian Sustainable Business Best Practice Exchange contains articles on all the initiatives that met the criteria for the GSB Awa...
Read more →With the results of this year’s Green League going live today, the EAUC are delighted to see so many of its Members leading the way in the top rankings. EAUC Members represent 92% of the institutions placed in the 2012 Green League which shows that these institutions are proactively using t...
Read more →With just three weeks to go until the Earth Summit, the EAUC would like to encourage all its Members to join the Rio+20 Sustainable Development Dialogues and have their say. Tying in with the 'Aiming higher, unlocking tertiary education's potential to accelerate sustainable development and the tr...
Read more →The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have issued the following press release on collective energy purchasing schemes. Davey: Next steps on collective purchasing for a better energy deal Energy Secretary Edward Davey has published practical advice for energy consumers looking t...
Read more →The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have issued this press release on regulations for the Feed-in Tariffs scheme. Certainty for Solar DECC is introducing regulations today to put the Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) scheme on a more predictable, certain and sustainable footing for hou...
Read more →This month's issue of University Business discusses IT with Platinum Sponsors of the 2012 EAUC Annual Conference, Iceotope. 'Wouldn’t it be strange if we considered that a computer is actually one of the most efficient ways of turning electricity into heat and the computer portion is, in real...
Read more →The organising committee for the 12th International Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) Conference is calling for reviewers to referee paper submissions for the conference. Refereed Papers are those that are written with the intention of being published in the conference proceedin...
Read more →A new £100 million investment fund to support research partnerships between universities, businesses, charities and philanthropic donors has opened for bids, Universities and Science Minister David Willetts has announced. The Research Partnership Investment Fund is open to UK universities for inv...
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