Sustainable development news - 2009

16 December 2009

HEFCE Finance wins Sustainability award

HEFCE was one of twelve winners of the Government Finance Profession Awards announced at a ceremony in Brighton on 19 November 2009.

25 November 2009

Sustainable Procurement Centre of Excellence unveils new web-site

The project, established by the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium, aims to help change the way universities embed sustainability into their procurement practices.

23 November 2009

Universities that Count – Year 2

Universities are invited to register for Year 2 of the Universities that Count scheme from 30 November 2009.

17 November 2009

JISC publishes report on Low carbon computing

This report by Techwatch explores how reducing greenhouse gases produced by ICT will play out in practice and what the future may hold.

16 November 2009

Green Gown Awards 2010 to be launched in January

Institutions are invited to apply for the 6th year of this awards scheme from 11 January 2010.

30 October 2009

London School of Economics wins national recycling award

The LSE has won a national award for its HEFCE-funded project, Moving Towards Zero Waste.

7 October 2009

Midlands Energy Graduate School launched

A new £3m venture funded by HEFCE will help the next generation of scientists and engineers meet the biggest challenges of the 21st century.

18 September 2009

Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: skills for a changing world

This free multimedia resource has interviews and chapters by more than forty educators and is available in paperback format.

7 September 2009

New-look 'SORTED' web-site launched

The sustainability online resource and toolkit for education aims to help staff in further education and work-based learning understand sustainability and how it relates to their organisations.

1 September 2009

Higher education joins the UK's 10:10 project

A number of universities and colleges, including the University of Plymouth and Newcastle University, have joined an ambitious project to unite every sector of British society behind achieving a 10 per cent cut in the UK’s carbon emissions in 2010.

5 August 2009

University of Plymouth awarded international accreditation

The university has been officially recognised with the award of the international accreditation standard for environmental management, ISO14001 certification.

4 August 2009

BREEAM Higher Education is published

Criteria for assessing the environmental performance of buildings in the higher education sector have been developed.

3 August 2009

NUS awarded Defra funding under Greener Living Fund

The funding will enable NUS and its partners to deliver a flagship whole-campus behaviour change programme at 20 higher education institutions in England from the start of the 2009-10 academic year.

30 July 2009

Carbon reduction consultation published

A joint consultation between HEFCE, Universities UK and GuildHE on developing a carbon reduction target and strategy for higher education in England has been published. Two consultation seminars in September form part of this consultation. The deadline for responses to the consultation is 16 October 2009.

1 July 2009

Green Gown Award 2009 winners announced

The winners of the annual Green Gown Awards were announced at a gala banquet held at Imperial College London on 23 June 2009. The awards are established to find the UK’s most sustainable institutions, with 12 winners and 16 highly commended institutions this year.

22 June 2009

Salix announce an additional energy efficiency loan scheme

Salix launch a new £50 million public sector energy efficiency loan scheme. Institutions are able to apply for interest free loans to fund energy saving projects. This scheme is running in parallel with the Revolving Green Fund which provides institutions with funding for an invest-to-save ring fenced fund.

15 June 2009

People and Planet Green League 2009 announced

Nottingham Trent University is named top of the recently published People and Planet Green League 2009.

22 May 2009

Winners of the Green Impact Award announced

The winners of the Green Impact Awards, a scheme launched by Bristol University to encourage its staff and students to improve the environmental performance of their departments, have been announced.

11 May 2009

Edge Hill University win prize for sustainability

Edge Hill University's Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning has been named as the winner of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors' (RICS) North West Award for Sustainability 2009.

28 April 2009

Lancaster University commits to reducing carbon emissions

Lancaster University announce plans for a wind turbine project, funded as part of the Revolving Green Fund.

16 April 2009

£25 million awarded to transform approaches to energy consumption

HEFCE and Salix have announced that 44 higher education institutions have been awarded a share of £25 million from the Revolving Green Fund.

9 April 2009

DECC launch consultation on draft Carbon Reduction Commitment Order 2010

The Department for Energy and Climate Change are consulting on the development of the Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme. The consultation is open until 4 June 2009.

4 April 2009

Lancaster University’s sustainable student accommodation wins award

The university’s eco-residences have been awarded first place in the Environmental Design category at the Chartered Institution of Building Service Engineers (North West Region) Annual Awards.

2 April 2009

Shortlist for the Green Gown Awards announced

The Green Gown Awards 2009 stage 2 shortlist was announced at the EAUC conference dinner on 1 April 2009. The winners will be announced on 23 June 2009.

13 March 2009

Lancaster University's announces carbon competition winners

A pioneering competition to encourage students at Lancaster University to cut back on energy and utility usage will now be run every term.

5 March 2009

Biomass Heating - A practical guide for potential users

The Carbon Trust has published an in-depth guide to Biomass heating.

26 February 2009

HEFCE and Salix launch round two of Revolving Green Fund

Institutions are invited to submit expression of interests for the second round of the institutional small project strand by midday on 27 March 2009.

3 February 2009

HEFCE sustainable development action plan

HEFCE published its updated strategic statement and action plan on sustainable development in the higher education sector following consultation.

27 January 2009

Lord Stern launches climate economic research centre

Lord Nicholas Stern has launched a UK research centre into the economic and policy implications of climate change.

20 January 2009

Green Gown Awards 2009

The Green Gown Awards 2009 were launched today. A number of new categories have been introduced and applications must be received by 27 February 2009.

19 January 2009

HEFCE achieve the Carbon Trust Standard

The Carbon Trust Standard is awarded to organisations that demonstrate they have reduced their carbon footprint and are committed to making further reductions.

16 January 2009

JISC's Green Technology report published

A report recently published outlines ways in which the intelligent use of technology can create savings of cost, energy or carbon output.

12 January 2009

Stanford launches $100 million initiative to tackle energy issues

Stanford University recently announced it will establish a new institute to study issues like energy efficiency, renewable energy and global warming. 

 

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