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  Climate Week 2012 - what difference have EAUC Members made? – 13th March 2012

  Climate Week is a national celebration of all the positive steps workplaces and communities are taking to protect our environment and hopefully inspire people.  We thought, during Climate Week, that we might pass on some figures showing the impact of our relationship with Better World Books. The...

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  Universities record healthy financial results – 12th March 2012

  HEFCE www.hefce.ac.uk/news/hefce/2012/financial.htm The higher education sector is facing a period of significant change over the next few years, as new arrangements for teaching funding are introduced. However, it does so from a position of financial strength, according to the HEFCE, which has t...

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  Four universities join elite Russell Group – 12th March 2012

  BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17341478 There will now be 24 universities in the Russell Group Four more universities are joining the Russell Group of leading universities - Durham, Exeter, Queen Mary, University of London, and York who are the host venue of our 16th Annual Conference fro...

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  Climate Week - Britain's Biggest Climate Change Campaign – 12th March 2012

  Climate week: 12 - 18 March 2012 Climate Week is a supercharged national campaign to inspire a new wave of action on climate change. It culminates with thousands of events and activities taking place throughout the week of 12 to 18 March 2012, planned by organisations from every part of society. Sh...

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  Ecocide Trial - The Sentence – 12th March 2012

  CEOs Robert Bannerman and John Tench has been adjourned for a Restorative Justice Hearing following their convictions for Ecocide in the UK Supreme Court that took place 30 September 2011. The Hearing for the Sentence will take place at the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution (IDCR) at t...

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  Live chat today! Social responsibility in HE: could we be doing it better? – 9th March 2012

  Live chat - Guardian Higher Education Network   CSR policies are expected in business but what about in higher education? How should universities be satisfying they diverse stakeholders? And how do you measure the success of a university's CSR initiatives? On Friday 9 March, the Guardian Hig...

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  New structure proposed for ISO 14001 – 5th March 2012

  The revised 14001 will be one of the first international management systems standards to adopt a new format, confirms International Standards Organisation (ISO). At the first meeting of the working group established to revise 14001, the environment management systems standard, it was agreed to st...

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  Guardian Blog - The role of higher education in creating sustainable leaders – 2nd March 2012

  This Guardian blog discusses the role of higher education in incorporating the elements of corporate social responsibility into undergraduate core modules to create executive education programmes dedicated to responsible leadership. It argues that the role of future leaders should be to lead, guide ...

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  Sustainable Amidst Austerity, Resource Scarcity and a Limited Growth World – 2nd March 2012

  The event "Sustainable Amidst Austerity, Resource Scarcity and a Limited Growth World" organised by These Young Minds took place at the London School of Economics on Tuesday 28th of February. It had an impressive array of speakers at hand who addressed topical issues affecting the society such as un...

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  Important tax and financial changes impacting CHP operators – 1st March 2012

  In relation with the EMR (Electric Market Reform) it is proposed to introduce the CPS (Carbon Price Support). The current status is that although the government recognise the role of CHP, the Treasury (HMT) does not recognise that CHP generate heat in addition of electricity. As a result HMT is aimi...

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  Tips to save water – 28th February 2012

  On Monday 20 February, the Environment Secretary announced that the South East of England has officially moved into drought status. This is due to the combination of persistent dry weather and the continuing decline in groundwater levels and river flows and increasing the risk to public water suppli...

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  Scotland on course to be a Fairtrade nation – 28th February 2012

  Across the country, 62 towns have either achieved Fairtrade status or have active steering groups. Almost two-thirds of higher education institutions and 171 schools have achieved the standard. Fairtrade products are said to offer a better deal to workers in developing countries. Over 4,500 items...

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  Feed-in-Tariff appeal: Application to the supreme court – 28th February 2012

  Explosive growth in solar panel installations on homes, schools and fields in the UK over the past 22 months saw the green energy source pass the symbolic milestone of 1,000MW on Wednesday. Since the feed-in tariff (FIT) scheme was launched by the Labour administration in April 2010 to pay homeow...

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  Love food, hate waste: Sustainable food procurement in practice – 27th February 2012

  This month’s issue of University Business looks into the great work consistently delivered by the University of Durham. With their Green Gown Award winning Procurement Service and Catering Department, the University  offers us an insight into their remarkable achievements in this case study as...

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  LiFE Launched in Australasia – 22nd February 2012

  The EAUC is delighted to announce that LiFE, Learning in Future Environments, has now been launched in Australasia. Established in partnership with the EAUC’s sister organisation, Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability or ACTS, Australasia has become the first set of countries outside...

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  Universities must lead the way on the sustainability agenda – 21st February 2012

  In these tough and challenging times for the higher education sector, there is no question that there are gems of opportunity present for the sustainability and environmental agenda.  Jonathon Porritt, founder director of Forum for the Future and now chancellor at Keele University, presents an ar...

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  Take a Fairtrade Step with the EAUC – 20th February 2012

  Fairtrade Fortnight is coming up next week and we know that this event is a key sustainability campaign in our Members’ calendars. So this year, the EAUC will be supporting the campaign and taking part in its own Fairtrade activities. Fairtrade Fortnight will take place between 27th Februar...

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  Sustainability Network events taking place near you – 14th February 2012

  As you know, Regional Sustainability Advisers (RSAs) have been appointed by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) to help promote and embed sustainability within their regions and network, support and work with other providers in their region. Each of the RSAs will be holding a Regio...

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  International partnership for Rio+20 – 14th February 2012

  Following your response in the recent Rio+20 consultation, we are delighted to announce that the EAUC has recently entered an exciting new international partnership. Alongside the EAUC, this partnership includes: the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AAS...

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  Catering waste in the further and higher education sectors – 14th February 2012

  WRAP (Waste Resources & Action Programme) estimates that 3.4 million tonnes of waste is produced by hotels, pubs, restaurants and quick service restaurants in the UK each year. 1.5 million tonnes of that goes to landfill, of which 600,000 tonnes is food waste. Eliminating the avoidable fraction of t...

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