People & Planet's Go Green Campaign

Green League 2007

In June 2007, People & Planet published the first ever league table of universities’ environmental performance. How green is your uni?

Find out by looking at the Green League 2007.

Update January 2008

It’s been a fantastic year for the Go Green campaign; we published the Green League 2007, expanded into schools and colleges and ended the year by winning Best Campaign at the British Media and Environment Awards - AND there’s more to come in 2008. This year sees the first ever National Go Green Week, the Green Education Declaration and the publication of the Green League 2008 - it’s going to be a busy year!

Main News Stories

Climate Change and the Stduent Movement, 6-8 June, www.studentmovement.co.uk

Climate Change and the Student Movement conference

Will be held in Brighton on the weekend of the 6 to 8 June, is the first of its type. It has been organised by student groups from around the country, and they want you to be a part of it!

Rose Bruford Green Society show off their mugs and their hoodies

"Lug-that-Mug" say Rose Bruford Green Society

To mark a year of campaigning, Rose Bruford Green Society used the annual symposium at the college to launch their re-usable mugs campaign, which aims to help students cut down their waste.

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Summer wouldn't be summer without The Gathering

Don't forget to bag your place at P&P's much talked about networking, training and planning event...

24 Apr 2008 Full news story
George Monbiot

Monbiot piqued by peak oil planning

In the last of his series of events as Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University, journalist, activist and People & Planet patron George Monbiot last night declared the impending climate chaos as catastrophic.

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YouPEC 2008

Do you want to work this summer on a sustainable future? Then join 150 young people from 30 European countries at the YouPEC.

2 Apr 2008 Full news story
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The Coleshill School's Go Green Week

Suzy Windridge from Coleshill School reports on her group's week of action:

3 Mar 2008 Full news story
Warwick Go Green Week Stall

Go Green Week Success.

Last week saw around 25 Groups across the country at schools, colleges and universities take part in national Go Green Week.

25 Feb 2008 Full news story
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Gigantic Waste Sculpture Launches London Students' Go Green Week

London students along with the artist Polyp create a waste sculpture outside SOAS to launch Students' Go Green Week.

Go Green Week London Schools and Colleges Conference Nicky Gavron addresses delegates

London Sixth Formers Go Green at City Hall.

Over 150 students from 40 schools and colleges launch the School and College London Students Go Green Week

19 Feb 2008 Full news story
Elle Gray, former student P&P campaigner, now Student Union President at Portsmouth combined getting a signature for the Declaration and presenting VC John Craven with Portsmouth's Green League Certificate.

Green Education Declaration Launched!

Go Green Week is upon us. To mark the start of the UK's first national student week of action against climate chaos the Green Education Declaration was launched with ten Vice Chancellors and other education sector representatives already signed up.

18 Feb 2008 Full news story

National Go Green Week

Leicester University's 600 person Go Green Human banner
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National Go Green Week is coming; if you’d like your group to be involved now’s the time to start planning. Taking place 16-24 February National Go Green Week will be the UK’s first national student week of action and events against climate chaos. Groups will be organising loads of different events across the whole of the country at universities, colleges and schools.

Schools, colleges and universities must clean up their act

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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 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.



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