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Don’t forget this year’s theme: Fall in Love with Your Climate.
Use our fantastic Carbon Speed Dating resources to get everyone at your uni feeling the love for the climate. This year, Go Green Week is all about helping everyone do their bit to cut the carbon and help your uni do the same.
We’ve got loads of suggestions for getting everyone on campus involved, whether it’s a Meat-Free Monday, Recycled Cans Film Festival or a 10:10 extravaganza - check out the action guide to get started
Why do Go Green Week?
P&P groups across the country get involved in Go Green Week for loads of reasons and here’s why your group should too.
It will help your Go Green campaign on campus
No matter what stage you’re at in your Go Green or Going Greener campaign, you can make Go Green Week directly relevant to your campaign. You could just be starting out and this could be the extravaganza you need to get it off the ground. You could be calling on your uni to do something specific, such as signing up to 10:10 or introducing a sustainable food policy. Or if you’re gearing up to launch a Transition University project Go Green Week will give you the chance to really get that message out to the rest of the student body and, more importantly, the decision makers who count.
You can get local media coverage to push your uni into action
Vice Chancellors love good press and they also react to bad press. So get in contact with your local newspapers, radio stations, TV channels and websites (as well as the student newspaper, radio station etc) and let them know what you’re doing and why. They’ll be interested in your story as it’s about local residents (you guys) and your VC will have to sit up and take notice. Check out our guide to getting media coverage during Go Green Week.
You can get new members
Doing a big week of actions and events can’t fail to get you noticed by other students and some of them won’t have even known your P&P group exists. You can get them involved in the campaign, get them on your email lists and hopefully get them along to your next meeting. If you’re launching your Going Greener transition projects, this is the perfect opportunity to get in touch with other societies and different staff members to help you out. For example, meet with the catering manager if you’re planning a Meat-Free Week or how about getting the Allotment Society to host an open day or Grow Your Own workshop? Your environment manager should also be on board and may provide budget, publicity support and help you manage a programme of events.
You can raise loads of money
Go Green Week is a great opportunity to raise some cash for People & Planet’s cutting edge campaigns such as Going Greener. Every action and event can easily have some fun way of raising money. You could simply collect donations or charge an entrance fee at events. Or why not put on a special event like the brilliant Carbon Speed Dating which will raise much-needed money for P&P! And don’t forget to send it back to us after your Go Green Week
You’ll be part of a massive movement for change
Literally thousands of students get involved in national Go Green Week every year at schools, colleges and universities. With loads of actions and events happening across the UK, your activities will be part of a bigger student movement for change. Together we will be calling on the education sector to smarten up its act and get tougher on climate change.
National media coverage
We will be trying to get as much national media coverage as possible using your actions and events as the story. We want to highlight the huge impacts the education sector is having on climate change and we can only do that if we show them the groundswell of opinion coming from students across the country. You and your group might just get featured so please let us know what you’re up to
Inspired?
Find out what you can do during Go Green Week and get planning.
