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  Green Gown Award Winners Announced – 7th April 2008

  Universities and Colleges are Creating Greener Buildings, and Responding Positively to Environmental and Social Issues 16 universities and colleges are winners or highly commended for the prestigious 2007-8 Green Gown Awards. These recognise innovative actions in eight categories – Colleges...

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  National Union of Students’ Glitzy Green Awards Ceremony reaches out to a million students – 20th March 2008

  Loughborough Students’ Union reclaimed a prestigious environmental award at a glitzy awards ceremony on Tuesday 18th March 2008 for the second year running. Over a million students will have seen environmental best practice in place as a result of 67 Unions entering into these awards. Rangi...

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  Response to Consultation on Implementation of Article 5 of the Energy Services Directive – 20th March 2008

  Please see document below for the consultation submission from the EAUC.

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  Scottish Climate Change Declaration – 18th March 2008

  In the light of global concerns about climate change and the developing political pressure in Scotland to take mitigating action, the EAUC has successfully received funding from the Scottish Funding Council to assist the sector take appropriate action through the development of a Climate Change Comm...

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  Green Gown Awards: Winners Announced – 18th March 2008

  Three of the Green Gown Award Categories were announced at the AUDE conference yesterday, on 17th March. The winners are as follows: Continuous Improvement Winner (projects): Sheffield Hallam University Highly Commended (projects): University of Birmingham Winner (institution): Uni...

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  New Guide to High Performance Buildings – 14th March 2008

  Two new Guides on High Performance Buildings have been produced by HEEPI, Sust and Thirdwave. For further information and a copy of the guide click here.

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  EAUC AGM Notification – 12th March 2008

  Please find below details of our forthcoming AGM which will be held on 31st March 2008 at the University of Exeter during our Annual Conference. Below are the AGM agenda, Minutes from 2007 AGM and the Annual Trustee Report and Financial Accounts for 2007. Members are welcome to attend the AGM ...

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  Consultation on Site Waste Management Plans - Response required by 14th March 2008 – 27th February 2008

  Dear Members You may remember we responded to Defra on the proposed regulations for site waste management plans last year. Defra have now published the Regulations which are due to come into effect on 6th April 2008. You can view the Regulations by going to: https://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/uks...

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  Call for Mini-Grant Funding Bids – 22nd February 2008

  There is growing pressure and expectation on the higher education (HE) sector to respond to the sustainability challenge and consider how best to embed sustainable development into policies and practices, not least in learning and teaching and curricula. To that end, the Higher Education Academy&rsq...

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  HEFCE Review concludes that stretching policies are required if HE is to become a leader in SD – 20th February 2008

  The key aim of the review was to devise a baseline of Sustainable Development activity in English Higher Education in order to measure progress over the longer term. The review examined the extent to which teaching, research and corporate and estates activities addressed SD – that is, our unde...

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  The Green Education Declaration – 19th February 2008

  With the launch of Go Green Week by People & Planet, many students will be lobbying their Vice Chancellor or Principal to ensure they sign The Green Education Declaration. The Declaration was launched this morning with a total of thirteen initial signatories. It calls for this year’s Climat...

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  Consultation on Article 5 of the Energy End Use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive 2006/32/EC – 1st February 2008

  Article 5 requires the public sector to fulfil an exemplary role in the context of energy end use efficiency. As part of performing this exemplary role the public sector must communicate its energy saving actions to the wider public. The Directive requires the public sector to take up cost effective...

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  Consultation: Revolving green Fund for English HE – 1st February 2008

  Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in England will benefit from a new fund to provide repayable grants for projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This fund will be a partnership between HEFCE and Salix Finance Ltd (Salix) with both parties committing significant funds. HEFCE and Salix expe...

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  Encouraging greener living - Defra publishes public attitudes research – 31st January 2008

  The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has published a framework to encourage environmentally friendly behaviour among individuals and communities. The report pulls together evidence on public understanding, attitudes and behaviours and draws conclusions on the potential f...

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  Government calls for Universities to do more to reduce their carbon emissions – 22nd January 2008

  Reducing carbon emissions was one of the key priorities laid down today by John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, in his annual grant letter to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). The grant letter calls for universities to do more to reduce ...

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  Greening Spires - New Report Out Today – 22nd January 2008

  A new Universities UK publication, out today, showcases the contribution of higher education institutions to this ‘greening’ agenda. Click here to download the report The Guardian also has an article on this report. Click here to view the article Radio 4's Learning Curve show fea...

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  BBC Radio 4 - The Learning Curve – 18th January 2008

  Iain Patton has been invited to speak on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Learning Curve next Monday evening. The programme is picking up on a new publication called ‘Greening Spires’ comes out from UUK the following day. It presents a rather positive picture of universities embracing th...

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  Green Gown Sponsorship Launched – 17th January 2008

  Please see the documents below regarding Green Gown Sponsorship opportunities. If you have any queries please contact sponsors@heepi.org.uk.

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  SORTED website launches – 9th January 2008

  SORTED. The Sustainability Online Resource and Toolkit for Education is launched today by the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) in partnership with the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). The new website: www.eauc.org.uk/sorted helps those working in Further Educa...

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  University of Bristol win at Times Higher Awards – 7th December 2007

  The University of Bristol have won the 'Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Development' category at the Times Higher Awards 2007. For more details on the awards, click here.

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