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  • Green British Universities' League Table

    Major UK student organisation People and Planet published its "Green League" earlier this year, in which Leeds Metropolitan University (as opposed to Leeds University, above) achieved the top rank, with Plymouth, Hertfordshire and Oxford Brookes all getting high marks.

    The table generated quite a lot of interest in the British media, with the Guardian and Independent running stories, and it was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement.

    I helped to select some of the parameters for the table and developed the original Go Green campaign, to improve universities' environmental performace, for P&P.

    I'm surprised that the South Carolina Sustainable Universities Initiative has not been mentioned, nor Harvard's efforts.On 15 Green Colleges and Universities posted 2 years, 3 months ago 62 Responses

  • A little pedantry

    In British spelling:
    Metre: the unit of length used in the metric system
    Meter: a device for measurementOn Helping homeowners monitor electricity use posted 2 years, 7 months ago 6 Responses

  • In the UK

    Student group People and Planet has been running its Go Green Campaign to get universities to improve their environmental performance since 2004 (which I researched and developed). It recently published a table of how green British universities are at

    http://peopleandplanet.org/gogreen/goinggreentable/
    On A new list will tell you posted 2 years, 10 months ago 4 Responses

  • Me too!

    I fell for my girl at UK student organisation People and Planet's Shared Planet conference back in 1999. Our first date was at a demo at the Menwith Hill spybase. In September last year we got engaged on the spot where she asked me out (I had asked her out three weeks beforehand but she turned me down). We are continuing to live a green life (well, as far as we can in a draughty flat) and, when the time comes, raising a green family.

    More details at http://peopleandplanet.org/navid2775

    Anyway, interesting to know that there is another box in which I can put myself other than "Generation Y."On The latest hipster trend posted 3 years ago 9 Responses