Green League 2008: Britain’s universities are finally getting greener
The Green League 2008 shows a remarkable improvement in the environmental management and performance of the UK’s universities. The combination of student campaigning and the publication of last year’s Green League has clearly shaken up the sector!
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First Go Green Pledge Signed
Oxford High School for Girls People & Planet has officially become the first P&P sixth form group to get their headteacher to sign the Go Green Pledge.
Countdown to Poz'n'Hagen: The Young Friends of the Earth Climate Tour
Young Friends of the Earth Europe are organising a Climate Tour of Europe, and P&Pers are invited to join!
Green League 2008 shows unis are getting greener
People & Planet's Green League 2008 has been published. The Green League 2008 shows a remarkable improvement in environmental management and performance in the UK's Higher Education sector over the past year - with a 25% increase in the number of full-time environmental staff.
Ecuador: Pay us to keep the oil in the soil!
A revolutionary proposal on climate change? The New Internationalist investigates, and you can too with an amazing deal on subscriptions that benefits you and P&P.
Date set for next year's Go Green Week.
We are pleased to announce that the UK's biggest student week of action on climate chaos will be taking place on the 9-13 February 2009.
Get Ready For the Green League
The Green League 2008 has been compiled and the data sent off to Times Higher Education for publication, now scheduled for 3 July.
Successes Stem from Roehampton's Go Green Week
Lewis Bassett, Facilitator of Roehampton People & Planet, reports on the University's Go Green Week (GGW) and the successes that have come out of it.
Climate Change and the Student Movement conference
This conference, held in Brighton on the weekend of the 6 to 8 June, is the first of its kind. It has been organised by student groups from around the country, and they want you to be a part of it!
"Lug-that-Mug" say Rose Bruford Green Society
To mark a year of campaigning, Rose Bruford Green Society used the annual symposium at the college to launch their re-usable mugs campaign, which aims to help students cut down their waste.
Summer wouldn't be summer without The Gathering
Don't forget to bag your place at P&P's much talked about networking, training and planning event...
National Go Green Week
People & Planet’s inaugural National Go Green Week took place during February, and with so many groups taking part it’s surprising there were any face paints left anywhere in the country!
The week was phenomenally successful, with loads of exciting and creative actions including a giant waste sculpture, environmental question times with politicians, school assemblies, campus-wide marches expert speaker events, big green bike rides, green parties, human banners, carbon audits and, of course, plenty of green people.
Congratulations to everyone who took part in the first ever Go Green Week - we’re already looking forward to next year.
Schools, colleges and universities must clean up their act
That’s why People & Planet groups at schools, colleges and universities around the country are part of the Go Green campaign to get their institutions to take climate change seriously and systematically improve their environmental performance.