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Join our brand new Going Greener campaign. This campaign is about students and staff at universities coming together and going greener for themselves.
Through a mixture of practical projects, creative awareness-raising, lobbying and community-building campaigns, students can help their universities make the transition to a low-carbon, lower-energy future.
Check out the new Action Guide
Find out more about the Going Greener campaign and what P&P groups have been up to.
Sign the CO£2 Petition asking your uni to create a CO£2 Transition Fund for student-led projects.
Let us know what you have been doing, by sending stories to Andrew
Main News Stories
Do you deserve a Green Gown Award?
Each year the Green Gown Award recognise and celebrate environmental excellence and good practice by unis, colleges and their students. Nominations for 2010 close on Feb 19th and we're pretty sure your Go Green campaigns deserve a nomination.
Eco-Cupids start Valentine's Day craze
Will Carbon Speed Dating be the new craze that sweeps the nation in 2010? Groups around the country are gearing up for low-carbon dating events this Go Green Week ( 8 - 14 Feb) and we've got some great eco chat-up resources to help you spread the love!
Eat Green - cut out the meat for Go Green Week 2010
With Go Green Week 2010 coming up (8 – 12 Feb) loads of groups are planning campaigns and events. Meat Free days are a great way to get everyone thinking about and reducing their carbon 'foodprint'.
Organise across borders with United Students Against Sweatshops
Hate sweatshops? Want to take positive action on your campus? Join our international conference call this Sunday and help plan an international Week of Action.
10:10 - How to get your uni cutting 10% in 2010
Groups at both Edinburgh and York universities are pushing the 10:10 challenge - cutting emissions by 10% in a year to show just what's possible when everyone's at it!
Win 5 free festival tickets
Win 5 free tickets to The Green Man Festival or The Secret Garden Party. The prizes go to the 2 People & Planet university groups who raise the most money for People & Planet this year.
The Can Film Festival - coming to your uni this February
For Go Green Week 2010 People & Planet are teaming up with Every Can Counts to run the Can Film Festival, which offers film-goers the chance to see a film simply by recycling empty drink cans.
Gardening in a winter wonderland
Ever wondered what you can do on the allotment in winter? Here's some top tips for growing your own from Gardener's World presenter Alys Fowler.
Have fun, campaign, raise money and eat haggis!
25 January is People & Planet's 'Don't Burns the Climate' Robert Burns Night celebration with a climate change theme. Host a Scottish meal complete with haggis/veggie haggis, poetry from the Scots legend, climate change campaigning, and raise money for People & Planet. Find out how...
Brown tells People & Planet: 'don't stop with COP, keep fighting'
On Monday, People & Planet members met Ed Miliband and Gordon Brown to find out why the UN climate change talks ended on 19 December with a weak Copenhagen Accord brokered by the USA and a handful of powerful countries.
Schools, colleges and universities must clean up their act
Britain’s universities, colleges and schools have a huge environmental impact - one that could and should be massively reduced. The UK Higher Education (HE) sector emits over 3 million tonnes of CO₂ into the atmosphere every year, and is responsible for over 1 million journeys daily. Schools emit 9.3 million tonnes of CO₂ per year, and that’s not counting the 1.2 million tonnes of CO₂ emitted by people travelling to school by car.
That’s why People & Planet groups at schools, colleges and universities around the country are part of the Go Green campaign to get their institutions to take climate change seriously and systematically improve their environmental performance.
This year we’ve also launched a new Going Greener campaign to create transition universities. Transition is about staff and students at universities coming together and going greener for themselves. Through practical projects, educational campaigns and community-led initiatives, students and staff will join forces to drive forward their universities’ transition to a low-carbon, lower energy future.
Go Green Week
Go Green Week is an annual student week of action on climate change. This year Go Green Week will take place from 8 - 12 February 2010. Check out what happened during Go Green Week 2009.
Want to hold a Go Green Week?
Get planning the actions, events and fundraisers you want to put on during your week. We have loads of ideas you could use. Check them out and get all the info you need for Go Green Week.
This year’s Green League was published on Thursday 18 June.
Find out more about the Green League
Press release to your student newspaper, template available now.
