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  New Initiative Launches to Help Colleges and Universities Meet UK's Sustainability Targets – 15th November 2011

  A radical new system designed to help universities and colleges across the UK improve their social responsibility and sustainability credentials, while making significant savings to their budgets, is set to be unveiled across the UK. The Learning in Future Environments (LiFE) Index was unveiled on ...

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  HEA UK Travel Fund - call for applications 2011-12 – 15th November 2011

  The Higher Education Academy (HEA) has launched a travel fund to help UK staff and students attend conferences, network meetings and special interest groups that are being run in the UK. The travel fund will help enable staff and students in UK higher education to exchange and disseminate good pract...

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  LSIS funding opportunities awarded and partners announced – 8th November 2011

  Seeing sustainable development as part of the improvement agenda   In 2010, Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) launched "Leading and Learning for a Sustainable Future", a wide-ranging strategy to support the sector in responding to the challenge, recognising a growing appetite in the s...

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  Input for the UNCSD 2012 Compilation Document from Tertiary Education Sustainability Organisations – 8th November 2011

  During the past several months, the following tertiary education focused organisations have been collecting input regarding UNCSD and the position of their members towards Rio+20 outcomes: The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) (USA/Canada) Au...

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  Krishnan Guru-Murthy celebrates sustainability in education sector achievements at the GGAs 2011 – 4th November 2011

  Last night’s Green Gown awards, hosted by journalist and presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy, was a resounding success and a fitting celebration for the pioneering environmental and sustainability initiatives that have been championed in the education sector this year. Winners and Highly Commen...

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  Sign up to LiFE and get your Member-only discount – 1st November 2011

  We’re delighted to announce a major milestone for the EAUC: Learning in Future Environments (LiFE) has officially launched to universities and colleges across the United Kingdom! We are delighted that institutions have begun signing up already and would like to formally invite you to join t...

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  Trustee Week – 31st October 2011

  We are very proud of our Trustees and as such we are celebrating Trustee Week. Trustees are the people in charge of a charity. Our Trustees are also Directors as we are a registered company as well as being a charity. They are the people with ultimate responsibility for directing the business of ...

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  EAUC case study - environmental champions create fresh green ideas – 26th October 2011

  In the November issue of University Business, Tom Yearly (right) from University of Reading, discusses his experience of implementing their network of champions. Reading currently has a network of 270 environmental champions, consisting of staff and students, who are all committed to improving t...

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  New SHED blog - What unites those who joined SHED? – 25th October 2011

  Following the launch of SHED’s new blog site, we thought we’d feature some of their posts over the coming months. Here’s an interesting one with a global angle.   What unites those who joined SHED? Posted 21 October 2011 I sent a question to Shed-Share in the form of a conundrum...

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  An update on the Sustainability Exchange – 24th October 2011

  Curiosity for the Sustainability Exchange has been building so we wanted to take this opportunity to give you an update on its progress. For those of you who are yet to hear about it, a bit more information about how it’ll help you. By definition, to Exchange is to share, give and take. The E...

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  $1 Billion ‘Green Challenge’ Launches – 14th October 2011

  Harvard, Stanford, Arizona State, and other leading universities commit $65 million to innovative energy efficiency financing initiative PITTSBURGH, PA (Oct. 11, 2011)-- To "Save Energy, Grow Money," the Billion Dollar Green Challenge invites colleges, universities and other nonprofits to inves...

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  Mayor switches on new electric vehicle scheme ‘Source London’ – 3rd October 2011

  • Source London to deliver 1300 publicly accessible charge points by 2013 • City charge points increase by 150 for 'go-live' of Source London The Mayor, Boris Johnson, has launched the capital's first city-wide electric charge point network and membership scheme, making it easier f...

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  An interview with Iain Patton on our new way of LiFE - EAUC feature in University Business – 29th September 2011

  A new way of LiFE is helping guide universities and colleges to a green economy October's issue of University Business is a special one as it's their Green issue with a focus on sustainability. It's fantastic to see such a strong publication acknowledge the importance of sustainability within the s...

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  Korean radio interviews the London Universities Environment Group (LUEG) – 16th September 2011

  The work of universities across London on reducing carbon will be feature in a documentary in South Korea this year.  Miss Park, a journalist from KBS Radio (the South Korean equivalent of the BBC), was visiting the UK to find out how universities are working to ensure the effective delivery of t...

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  How LiFE works – 16th September 2011

  Since we announced Learning in Future Environments (LiFE) we’ve been really happy to see the amount of interest that has been generated throughout the sector. A lot of people have signed up to our online webinars and we’ve been getting a lot of great feedback. One thing people are kee...

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  Red Tape Challenge – 13th September 2011

  As you may be aware, the 'Red Tape Challenge' was launched in April to open up Government regulation to the scrutiny and challenge of the public, businesses and experts. The website is being used to gather innovative ideas on how the aims of our regulations can be fulfilled in the most successful a...

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  Donating ICT Kit to Africa vs Recycling in the UK – 13th September 2011

  Nicola Hogan, project manager of SUSTE-TECH recently spoke with Computer Aid International on the subject of sending computers overseas to Africa. They expressed their frustration at the amount of PCs still remaining in the UK and not being donated to reputable charities such as Computer Aid in...

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  New opportunities for partnerships with LSIS – 5th September 2011

  The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) is dedicated to working in partnership with all parts of the sector to build and sustain self-improvement and to work closely with sector practitioners in the delivery of what LSIS provides. LSIS operate a number of funds designed to give sector ...

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  Introducing Change Agents UK – 1st September 2011

  Over the last 15 years StudentForce for Sustainability have worked with people across the UK who stand up and strive to make a positive change in their work, lives and communities. From 1 September 2011, StudentForce for Sustainability will be known as Change Agents UK. As an EAUC Strategic Part...

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  Cycling worth £3bn a year to the UK economy – 30th August 2011

  Cycling contributes almost £3 billion to the UK economy shows a new report from LSE which also reveals that almost a quarter of the population are now cyclists. The study quantifies for the first time the full economic success story of the UK’s cycling sector which generates £2.9 billion fo...

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