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.
Warwick Go Green Week Stall
Go Green Week was the UK’s first national student week of action against climate change. The week started with a London Go Green Conference at City Hall which saw 170 sixth form students from 40 different schools and colleges plan Go Green campaigns. The week saw loads of exciting and creative actions and events including: a gigantic waste sculpture, environmental question times with politicians, loads of expert speaker events, bike surgeries and big green bike rides, green parties, the creation of human banners, putting on school assemblies and carrying out carbon audits.
go green week bike workshop
Go Green Week also incorporated the Big Green Lobby where groups lobbied their Vice Chancellor or Headteacher to meet the Go Green campaign demands.
In universities, groups were asking their unis to:
- Carry out a full environmental audit,
- Employ a full time environmental manager,
- Adopt a publicly available environmental policy
- The public support of senior management
Warwick Go Green Week Fundraiser
In schools and colleges, groups were asking their schools to:
- Carry out a carbon audit,
- Set up permanent student led carbon reduction groups.
The Big Green Lobby also aimed to get Vice Chancellors and Headteachers to sign the Green Education Declaration, calling on the government to include an 80% cut in CO₂ by 2050 and sectoral carbon reduction targets in the Climate Bill. So far 20 Vice Chancellors as well as NUS, UCU and the Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges have signed up.
Check the current list of signatories to see if your VC or Headteacher has signed. If not, it is not to late to get them to sign, just download the Green Education Declaration and send it back.
Well done everyone who took part in the week!