Student expectations of the green campus

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Student expectations of the green campus

• Students have watched their institutions
  replicate the problems that lead to the creation
  of climate change
• Students want universities to become a force for
  change
• Huge gaps exist between what universities teach,
  what they do and what theyre capable of doing
  this must change!

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What is People Planet?

• The UK's largest student network campaigning on
  human rights, poverty and the environment
• Groups in over 130 universities, schools and
  colleges
• Aim to create effective campaigns and to empower
  active global citizens

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Go Green Campaign

• Aim to improve the environmental performance of
  the entire education system
• Launched in 2003
• Grew out of Green Electricity Campaign need for
  institutional change

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Go Green Demands

• 1) The active, public support of senior
  university management
• 2) Full-time staff dedicated to environmental
  management
• 3) A written, publicly available environmental
  policy
• 4) A comprehensive review

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Student expectations of the green campus

• Students are demanding systemic long lasting
  change leadership from the top
• Students want universities to become a force
  that can push forward a radical sustainable
  agenda
• Students envision an education sector that
  becomes a leader in the UK economy by
  demonstrating practically what a sector can do to
  transform its environmental impact and meet
  Britains climate responsibilities

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Student campaigners

• Reading University already has some good
  environmental policies, including the green
  electricity policy we campaigned for two years
  ago. But there is huge room for improvement,
  especially on recycling. As a pillar of the
  local community with top departments in
  meteorology and renewable engineering reading has
  a special responsibility to take the lead
• Ross Wilson, Reading PP group member
• Having run the campaign for two years and put
  in a lot of hard work we're actually seeing the
  difference it's made now. We've got increased
  recycling provision, sustainable purchasing
  initiatives and better transport planning but
  there's still room for improvement and we'll be
  keeping the pressure on!
• Alex Sim, Warwick PP group member

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Go Green Extreme!

• Go Green demands are first steps building
  blocks for a green HE sector
• PP is creating a collective vision of what
  students think a truly sustainable university
  would look like
• These will be used to produce four new Go Green
  demands on top of our original four launched in
  September 2009.
• You can help your PP group create this vision

Student expectations of the green campus