People & Planet's Climate Change Campaign
How green is your university?
Find out using our award-winning People & Planet Green League which ranks every UK university and measures its progress to becoming a Transition University
Whether your institution scores a Fail or a First Class award, there’s plenty that staff and students can do together to start going greener, from starting up a Food Co-op to making the switch to renewable energy.
Students get oily at Clegg's office before EU tar sands vote
People & Planet activists made an oily scene outside of Nick Clegg's constituency office, in protest of the UK's lack-of-support for an EU proposal to label tar sands oil as 'dirty'.
Going Greener Blog
Read what our grassroots bloggers have to say about climate change
What are we doing in 2011/12?
Going Greener: transition universities
People & Planet’s Going Greener campaign brings staff and students together to develop and implement their own responses to the twin challenges of climate change and energy security. Students across the UK are getting involved by organising a wide range of practical carbon-cutting projects, lobbying campaigns, community-building and awareness-raising events. To push their institutions to become a Transition University student activists are creating their own grassroots vision of a low-carbon, future-proof university and rolling their sleeves up to make it happen. Universities are Going Greener by changing the way their communities use energy, travel, eat and grow food, and waste resources.
Green League
Integral to the Going Greener campaign is People & Planet’s Green League, an award-winning environmental ranking of all the UK’s universities. Published annually in national newspapers, it measures the progress of the higher education sector in making the transition to a low-carbon future. Through the Green League students are driving forward the higher education sector’s sustainability agenda at a national level. Find out how green your university is
Go Green Week
People & Planet’s annual week of student action on climate change in partnership with the NUS. Each February 100s of schools, colleges and universities get to work cutting the carbon and raising awareness of the solutions needed for a low-carbon future. Last year this included a national Photo Competition, Carbon Speed Dating, the Can Film Festival 2012 and a day of coordinated mass action on 10 February. Check out what happened in Go Green Week 2012 which took place on 6 - 12 February.
What a difference a year makes
This is why campaigning matters - check out the video below to see what we achieved together in the last year.
