What happened in 2009?
Check out what groups across the country did (and some still are doing) during Go Green Week 2009 using the map or listings below. Want to be added to the map? Let us know what you’re doing using the form below
P&P Group |
Event/Action |
Details |
Date/Time |
More info… |
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Aberystwyth Uni P&P |
Film screening: A Crude Awakening |
Come and watch this amazing film in the Union |
Thursday 12 February |
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Bangor Uni P&P |
Question Time |
An evening of debate and speakers on climate change |
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Bangor Uni P&P |
Love climate, Love bikes! |
Bike Surgery and bike ride to local environmental centre Moel y Ci for an introduction to local food production and composting |
Saturday 14 February |
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Brunel Uni P&P |
Carbon Auditing |
Surveying students to find out their carbon footprints |
All week |
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Brunel Uni P&P |
Film Night |
Film Society and Green Society present The Motorcycle Diaries |
Monday 16 February |
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Brunel Uni P&P |
Club night |
Peace Out hippie themed club night (Academy) |
Tuesday 17 February |
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Brunel Uni P&P |
Speaker event |
Climate change and Heathrow speakers Q&A |
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Brunel Uni P&P |
Critical Mass |
Get on your bike for a fun and slow meander through the streets |
Monday 16 February |
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Brunel Uni P&P |
Go Green Fair |
Stalls and fun |
All week |
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Cardiff Uni P&P |
Report presentation |
Presenting our VC with a report detailing why we need an Environmental Manager. |
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Cardiff Uni P&P |
Green Curry Night |
Fun, Food and Fundraising for P&P (Check out how to put on your own Green Curry Night) |
Tuesday 10 February |
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Dundee Uni P&P |
Box Wars |
Don your cardboard armour and get ready to duel to highlight the importance of recycling. |
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Durham Uni P&P |
Question Time: Social Change Not Climate Change - This House Believes that Climate Change cannot be solved by Capitalism |
Speakers including Shan Oakes, Green Party European Parliamentary Candidate, a Durham Uni Economics Lecturer, Durham Students’ Union Environment & Ethics Officer and a representative from Abundant Earth/Transition Durham. |
Monday 9 February @ 19.30 |
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Durham Uni P&P |
Petition presentation |
‘Energy Revolution’ Petition presentation to local MP |
Friday 13 February |
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Durham Uni P&P |
Green Night |
Party party at a local bar which is having a Go Green night |
Wednesday 11 February |
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Durham Uni P&P |
Verbal Remedies |
A night of poetry and music, headlined by ‘star in the making’ Danny Chivers. |
Thursday 12 February |
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Durham Uni P&P |
Go Green @ Planet of Sound |
A Go Green themed Planet of Sound with discounts for clubbers wearing green outfits, stickering the disposable cups and loads more. |
Friday 13 February |
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Edinburgh College of Art P&P |
Go Green Sports Day |
Sports day like never before. |
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Farnborough VI Form College P&P |
Signing pledges |
Students signing pledges to be more environmentally friendly |
Friday 6 March |
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Goldsmiths, Uni of London P&P |
Big Green Gig |
A night of music and poetry, featuring Danny Chivers as seen at Shared Planet |
Monday 23 February |
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Goldsmiths, Uni of London P&P |
Green Tea Party |
Tea, cakes and vegan pancakes, plus the Go Green Edition of ‘Hyggelig’; bring old stuff, make new stuff with knitting, sewing and general creativeness. |
Tuesday 24 February |
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Goldsmiths, Uni of London P&P |
Workshop from Embercombe |
From Knowledge to Action - Find your unique way of contributing to positive (environmental) change |
Thursday 26 February |
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Goldsmiths, Uni of London P&P |
Recycling and Sustainable Living discussion |
Environmental organisations talk and panel discussion including representatives from Embercombe (a sustainable living group with a brilliant sounding place down in Devon where you can go and stay in yurts!) and Otesha (a London-based group who came and did a project with us last year), and a student who has written her dissertation on Permaculture. |
Friday 27 February |
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Greenwich Uni P&P |
Green Dinners |
A different green (Fairtrade and local produce) dinner is available in the canteen each day of Go Green Week |
All week |
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Hatfield Visual Arts College P&P |
Awareness Raising |
Getting the Go Green idea out to the whole school |
All week |
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Hull Uni P&P |
Recycling Forum |
We’ll be promoting the benefits of recycling outside the union all day |
Monday 9 February |
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Hull Uni P&P |
Film Screening: An Inconvenient Truth |
A showing of Al Gore’s ground-breaking climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth |
Monday 9 February (Evening) |
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Hull Uni P&P |
P&P Stall |
There’ll be a People & Planet stall in the union all day |
Tuesday 10 February |
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Hull Uni P&P |
Clothes Recycling Forum (Swap-shop) |
Bring along your old clothes and swap ‘em for something else in the union all day |
Wednesday 11 February |
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Hull Uni P&P |
P&P Stall |
There’ll be a People & Planet stall in the union all day |
Thursday 12 February |
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Hull Uni P&P |
Environmental Issues Debate |
A debate on the hot environmental topics of the day |
Thursday 12 February (Evening) |
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Hull Uni P&P |
Recycling Forum |
We’ll be promoting the benefits of recycling around halls of residence all day |
Friday 13 February |
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Hull Uni P&P |
Fairtrade Cheese and Wine evening |
Enjoy a nice glass of Fairtrade wine and local cheeses |
Friday 13 February |
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Hull Uni P&P |
Go Green Sculpture Competition |
Get creative with your recycled goods, there’s a £50 prize for the best. |
All week |
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Hull Uni P&P |
Hall Wars |
Students in halls of residence compete with each other to reduce their energy use. The winners get all expenses paid night out. |
All week |
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Keele Uni P&P |
Halls Recycling Pilot |
Monday 9 February 10.00-16.00 |
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Keele Uni P&P |
Ecoverter Recycling Launch |
Monday 9 February 11.00 |
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Keele Uni P&P |
Environmental Forum |
Including Green Essay Competition Awards |
Monday 9 February 13.00 |
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Keele Uni P&P |
Documentary screenings |
David Attenborough Doco followed by Manufactured Landscapes |
Monday 9 February 16.45 |
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Keele Uni P&P |
Barnes Energy League Launch |
Tuesday 10 February |
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Keele Uni P&P |
God is Green |
Film screening in Chapel followed by discussion |
Tuesday 10 February 13.00 |
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Keele Uni P&P |
Coffee Afternoon |
Join the sustainability team for a coffee and a chat |
Wednesday 11 February 13.30 - 14.30 |
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Keele Uni P&P |
Green Night @ KUSU |
Wednesday 11 February |
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Keele Uni P&P |
Public Transport Forum |
Council and Bus companies providing sustainable transport information |
Thursday 12 February 11.00 - 14.30 |
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Keele Uni P&P |
One Man, Cow & Planet followed by Princess Monomoko |
A double film screening @ KUSU |
Thursday 12 February 13.00 |
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Keele Uni P&P |
Campus Walk |
A guided tour of the Arboretum |
Friday 13 February 13.00 |
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Keele Uni P&P |
Film Screening: The 11th Hour |
Followed by discussion |
Friday 13 February 18.00 |
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Leicester College P&P |
Stalls, facepainting and a panel debate |
All week |
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Liverpool Uni P&P |
Agrofuels Talk |
Talk by Deepak Rughani from Biofuelwatch and Food Not Fuel |
Monday 9 February, 19.00, In the Guild library. |
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Liverpool Uni P&P |
Green Curry Night |
Followed by a film (BARAKA) |
Tuesday 10 February |
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Liverpool Uni P&P |
Talk and day trip |
Talk by Phil Newport from Wild Roof Landscapes followed by trip to Belevedere Academy conservation afternoon |
Wednesday 11 February (12.00 for staff, 13.00 for students, 14.45 for trip) |
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Liverpool Uni P&P |
Energy Talk |
Talk by Environmental Councillor Berni Turner and the Physics department |
Thursday 12 February, 16.00, McAusland lounge |
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Malmesbury School P&P |
Go Green Pledge Signing |
Including presentation of the pledge map, signed by students and staff during the week. |
Friday 13 February |
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Malmesbury School P&P |
Green Assemblies |
All week |
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Malmesbury School P&P |
Mass light switch off |
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Malmesbury School P&P |
Nuclear Debate |
Is it the answer? |
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Nottingham Uni P&P |
Go Green Question Time |
Nick Palmer, Labour MP for Broxtowe, Sue Blount, Green Party and Jane Burd, Greenpeace come together to look at issues such as whether the state or individuals are best suited to combat climate change and whether the current government is taking it seriously enough |
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Oxford Brookes & Oxford Uni P&Ps |
Go Green Alleycat and Green Curry Night |
The evening is kicking off with a wheely good alleycat so bring your bike, find the clues and solve the riddles in the quickest time to win the coveted Go Green alleycat prize. After you’ve worked up an appetite join us for a taste-budtastic and reasonably priced Go Green Thai Curry and help raise funds for People & Planet. Entertainment will come from Hammer & Tongue Slam Poetry Champion, Danny Chivers and a whole host of acoustic acts from lands far and wide. |
Friday 13 February 18.30 @ Broad Street, Oxford |
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Rose Bruford College P&P |
Guitars Unplugged |
An open mic night with a difference - no amps, no mics, no lights (well, candles!) learn how to reduce our impact on the environment whilst making groovy accoustic music! |
Friday 13 February |
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Royal Holloway Uni P&P |
Film Screening: The 11th Hour |
A showing of the great film, The 11th Hour |
Tuesday 10 February |
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Royal Holloway Uni P&P |
Swap shop |
Bring over the clothes you don’t wear anymore and swap ‘em for something else. |
Wednesday 11 February |
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Royal Holloway Uni P&P |
Green Curry Night |
Fun, food and fundraising for P&P |
Wednesday 11 February (Evening) |
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Royal Holloway Uni P&P |
Valentine’s cards petition |
Collecting and making Valentine’s card petitions |
Friday 13 February |
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Royal Holloway Uni P&P |
Go Green Night |
Medicine bar is the place for a Go Green night out |
Saturday 14 February |
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Seven Kings High School P&P |
Green Day |
Everyone dresses up in green and donates £1 to P&P |
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St Andrews Uni P&P |
Green Curry Lunch |
£1 from every tasty green curry goes to P&P |
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UCL (London) |
Go Green Stall |
Info on the Go Green campaign in the Union |
Monday 9, Tuesday 10 & Wednesday 11 February |
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UCL (London) |
Green Fair |
Campaigning groups, Camden Council, Blender Vender, Dr Bike (who’ll be offering free servicing) and loads more in the Quad |
Thursday 12 February |
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UCL (London) |
Green Quiz Night |
It’s a quiz, so stretch those brain muscles. |
Thursday 12 February (Evening) |
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UCL (London) |
Photo stunt |
Lobbying the Provost to Go Green |
Thursday 12 February |
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University of Central Lancashire |
Climate change workshops |
A fortnight of talks and workshops on climate change and Go Green from speakers including the local council recycling team and the university’s Environmental Facilities Manager |
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Warwick Uni P&P |
Make Your Plastic Look Fantastic Fashion Show |
Featuring outfits recycled from plastic bags |
Monday 23 February |
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Warwick Uni P&P |
Environmental Question Time |
Student political party representatives join the panel debate on environmental issues |
Tuesday 24 February |
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Warwick Uni P&P |
Verbal remedies poetry slam |
With the enigmatic Danny Chivers |
Tuesday 24 February |
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Warwick Uni P&P |
Will economics cure Climate Change? Panel discussion |
Wednesday 25 February |
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Warwick Uni P&P |
Technology day |
Bike doctors, hybrid cars, cool green inventions |
Thursday 26 February |
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Warwick Uni P&P |
Party in the Piazza |
Music, entertainment Farmers market, Student Switch Off Talk, organic, vegetarian food demonstrations, housing coop workshop, vegan lunch and much more! |
Friday 27 February |
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York Uni P&P |
Performances and petitioning |
Performances and petitioning throughout the week |
All week |
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Check out what groups did during Go Green Week 2008
