Rebecca Allen, Sustainability Officer, Newcastle University emailed the Transport Planning Community of Practice to ask, “I’m shortly putting together a briefing...
Pam Reynolds, Sustainability Manager, Blackpool and the Fylde College, emailed the North West Regional Group to ask if any institutions have been successful with reducing the...
Fiona Macey, Sustainable Travel & Transport Manager, University of York, emailed the Transport Planning Community of Practice to ask, “I was wondering if anyone can...
Research published by sustainability consultancy Brite Green shows universities in England have fallen further behind their own targets and the national carbon targets set by...
The BSRIA Market Intelligence Team has published a news report on the future market for data centre cooling. The report contains some interesting information on future cooling...
In August 2015 Amy Hill, Travel Plan Co-Ordinator, University of Exeter emailed the Transport Planning Community of Practice to ask Members if they could offer any ideas or...
In 2007 MMU’s catering department had a deficit of £780k. To reduce these losses and break even, a new employment model was introduced, along with an...
Lancaster University’s in-house food operation has gone from making a loss to generating a healthy profit, in just three years.
Halton Council’s schools catering service has saved up to 21% on many different contracts. They now have increased buying power, higher supplier standards and staff have...
For Wirral Council, one of the biggest benefits of buying school meal ingredients through TUCO is the time it frees up for catering and Procurement staff.
Since joining TUCO, Sefton Council’s school meals service has saved an average of 10% on a wide range of products. But it is the due diligence around food safety that they...
Janet Sanders, Energy Advisor, Aberystwyth University, emailed the EAUC Transport Community of Practice to ask how colleagues at other universities deal with the bikes left...
For a very small financial input the UCLan Student Union Student Bursaries have had a far reaching and long term impact on sustainability here at UCLan, transforming packaging,...
Green Guild started in October 2013 encompassing a wide range of initiatives for embedding sustainability across the University community. Three interrelated themes of...
The £9.8M Centre for Global Eco-Innovation unites the expertise, resources and global contacts of Lancaster University, the University of Liverpool, and Inventya Limited, to...
Lancaster University leads the HE sector in respect of its integrated, cutting edge sustainable food projects such as ‘Edible Campus’. Together, Lancaster...
Through implementing a comprehensive water management plan the University has reduced its water consumption by 20%; enough water to fully hydrate (8 glasses a day) our 30,000...
This is a campaign that encourages students at the end of the year to donate their unwanted items - promoting a reuse ethos and creating lasting partnerships across...
In this Meet a Member career profile, see how Valeria Vargas (Education for Sustainable Development Coordinator) is finding opportunities to embed sustainability into the...
How is sustainability structured at your university? Victoria Johnsen, Environmental & Cultural Change Manager, University of Surrey emailed the Members’ network...