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  HEFCE & Salix Finance Revolving Green Fund – 12th August 2008

  The HEFCE & Salix Finance Revolving Green has been launched. A circular letter has been sent to all English higher education institutions with the outcomes of consultation and an invitation to apply for funds. This is available at https://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/circlets/2008/cl20_08/ . Applicat...

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  Scottish Universities and Colleges urged to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle – 1st August 2008

  Waste Aware Campus, a new online resource to encourage Scottish universities and colleges to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle their waste, was launched on Wednesday 23 July 2008 by Waste Aware Scotland. The Waste Aware Campus website: www.wasteawarecampus.org.uk contains a number of ‘How to Gui...

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  Help Wanted for Centre for Excellence in Leadership Research on New Build Programme Support – 11th July 2008

  Help Wanted for Centre for Excellence in Leadership Research on New Build Programme Support Jo Matthews is doing some research into what sort of support colleges would like either before, during or after a new build programme. It is commissioned by the Centre for Excellence in Leadership, to infor...

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  UCU calls for greater staff involvement in university climate efforts – 4th July 2008

  The University and College Union (UCU) have congratulated universities doing the most to combat climate change but urged all universities to step up the involvement of staff and students in their efforts. The union called for a carbon reduction strategy on every campus based on university consulta...

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  Green League 2008 Results Out – 3rd July 2008

  BRITISH UNIVERSITIES CUT THE CARBON PEOPLE & PLANET PUBLISH THE GREEN LEAGUE 2008 Today, Thursday 3 July, the award winning Green League was published by People & Planet, the UK's leading student campaign network. The Green League 2008 shows a remarkable improvement in environmental management and...

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  Get Involved in our New Procurement Project – 2nd July 2008

  Promoting Poverty Aware Procurement on Campus New Project on Sector Procurement and International Development - Recruitment Starting Now Building on the success of the Sustainable Procurement Project, the EAUC is pleased to announce a follow-on project funded by the Department for Internatio...

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  Ofsted's Talisman magazine - Green Issues in Education – 28th June 2008

  The June edition of Ofsted’s Talisman magazine tries to encourage national agencies, government departments and providers in the FE sector to work together to improve and embed sustainable development in education. The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) is transforming the Further Education (...

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  Sound Impact Awards Portfolio – 26th June 2008

  The new Sound Impact portfolio is now out - packed with inspirational examples of environmental good practice celebrating student union collective achievements over the last academic year. The scheme will be relaunching to student unions on 25 August 2008 for the start of the new academic year. ...

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  HEFCE SD Consultation 2008 update to strategic statement and action plan – 11th June 2008

  This is a consultation on an updated strategic statement and action plan to support HE's contribution to sustainable development. It is structured around the four roles identified for HEFCE in their first sustainable development strategy. This document is both a progress report and a consultation...

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  Two Important Updates from HEFCE – 2nd June 2008

  Post consultation update from HEFCE on the proposed Revolving Green Fund [HEFCE writes] We sought the sector's views on the implementation of a revolving green fund earlier this year. The fund which will provide HEIs with recoverable grants to undertake projects that will reduce greenhouse gas e...

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  Take Action on Active Travel – 16th May 2008

  Please find below a PDF of the policy call "Take action on active travel", developed by a working group of public health and transport organisations, and supported by a broad cross-sectoral constituency of 57 bodies at the time of going to press, including the EAUC. "Take action on active travel"...

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  BREEAM for Higher Education – 17th April 2008

  BREEAM higher education will end bespoke by creating a 'standard scheme' applicable to most university buildings. The Association of University Directors of Estates (AUDE) is working with partner organisations and BRE to develop the BREEAM for higher education for piloting in the autumn of 2008 ...

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  'Green Colleges Declaration' launched today – 9th April 2008

  UK colleges commit to go green Colleges responsible for teaching and training over three million people will today pledge to go green in all areas of their business. The 'Green Colleges Declaration', covering UK institutions with a combined annual turnover of £6 billion, will be launched by t...

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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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