Birmingham City University “greening” it up!

Something “green” is stirring in the air at BCU. The university is developing new initiatives to become an eco-friendly university and to educate students about the environment. The university has set up a new campaign entitled “grrreen“. It is based on the three ‘R’s reduce, reuse and recycle. BCU has appointed various members of staff [...]

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Green League 2008 results

So the results were published in the Times Higher Education Supplement on Thursday. The results have shown an improvement in environmental management and performance in universities across the UK with the University of Gloucestershire topping the table. You can find out more about the results here. I had the chance to speak to Emma Hughes [...]

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People and Planet Green League 2008

The Green League 2008 is published tomorrow in the Times Higher Education Supplement.  The Green League is a ranking of how environmentally friendly British Universities are.  The results are based on 9 environmental criteria such as Co2 Emissions and the percentage of waste recycled for each institution. This is the second year the table has [...]

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CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year

I recently spoke to Emily Doyle from The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) about the environmental photographer of the year awards which is part of CIWEM’s Arts and Environment intiative “putting creativity at the heart of environmental policy and action”.
The winners of the 2007 competition are going to be on display at [...]

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Enviro Cribs Part One

I’ve set up a YouTube Channel for Environmental News Online here. Check out my new video I did. It’s a tour of my house looking at how I could be more environmentally friendly. Apologies about the T-Shirt it was a spur of the moment thing and I forgot to change my wardrobe. Not scripted much [...]

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Hannah Newland Interview

I managed to speak to Hannah Newland, the newly elected representation and campaigns officer at Birmingham City University Union of Students, about environmental issues and what she thinks the union and university should be doing.

If the above link doesn’t work you can download the interview here

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Writing my first article for ENO

I’ve done what I said to myself I wouldn’t do. I’ve left it to the last minute again. Here I am at twelve twenty five on Monday morning writing a blog post after I’ve had a week to research an article for our Environmental News Website. The article’s deadline was today. Sure I can make [...]

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I found the following article on the website greengirlsglobal.com. More information on the author April Capil can be found at www.aprilcapil.com. The article shows how its important to encourage children to be resourceful and creative first in order to make them more aware of how they can help to protect the environment.
http://greengirlsglobal.com/blog/guest-editor-april-capil-ten-tips-for-encouraging-resourcefulness-and-creativity-in-your-children

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