Green UCL

The NUS Green Impact programme has been in progress at UCL for the second year running. The programme encourages teams to undertake a number of actions to reduce their environmental impacts - thereby contributing to UCL's overall environmental sustainability programme. In 2011/12, 19 UCL teams signed up and completed actions as part of Green Impact. In 2012/13, 29 teams have got involved in the programme and undertaken actions ranging from the purchase of sustainable food to the use of UCL's waste reuse scheme, WarpIt. As a result of the programme, UCL was able to achieve the following 

The next Green Champions Forum will take place on Wednesday April 10th 1-2pm in G01 Central House. Lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend please email greenucl@ucl.ac.uk with the number of people and any dietary requirements.

A message from the Mayor's Low Carbon Prize Team...

We are recruiting ambassadors for the 2013 Mayor’s Low Carbon Prize (MLCP) and would be grateful if you would share this information with your student networks.

The latest Green Impact UCL league table is now out! Here are the results as of February 22nd. Congratulations to PALS who have topped the table for the third time in a row! Will they hold their lead or will another team enter enough workbook data in the next week (workbooks close on March 4th) to get past them...?

Students living in UCL halls have made a great start in the Student Switch Off energy-saving campaign, taking simple actions to reduce their carbon footprint and helping their hall in the competition to save the most and win an end of year party.

UCL is taking part in a pilot scheme for cycle safety ambassadors run by TfL for UCL students and staff. Come along on Thursday Jan 31st 10:30-15:00 for...

This is an opportunity for students to conduct environmental audits at UCL on 12th March 2013. 

You don’t need any prior experience to take part.

The latest Green Impact UCL league table is now out! Here are the results as of February 22nd. Congratulations to PALS who have topped the table for the third time in a row! Will they hold their lead or will another team enter enough workbook data in the next week (workbooks close on March 4th) to get past them...?

The latest Green Impact UCL league table is now out! Here are the results as of January 21st. Congratulations to PALS who have topped the table for the second time in a row! Can they hold their lead or will another team enter enough workbook data before March to get past them...?

The second Green Impact UCL League Table was been produced on December 17th. Congratulations to PALS who topped the league table this time! You'll receive a few Green Impact goodies soon. Wickford Zero Waste and UCL Library Services, Main and Science Libraries are also doing very well and several teams have started completing their workbooks.

As part of the Green Impact Special Awards scheme, UCLU is accepting applications for three awards:

• HEA Education for Sustainable Development Award 
• Resurgence & Ecologist Award 
• The Co-operative International Development Award–£500 

The first Green Impact UCL League Table has been produced. Several teams have started filling in their workbooks with UCL Library Services, Main and Science Libraries having completed the most criteria and Wickford Zero Waste being the only team to have started completing the Silver criteria. See the Green Impact UCL page for further information on the programme.

MODO (UCL’s fashion society) and Green UCL will be holding a charity boot sale of clothes/books in UCL’s South Quad/South Junction this Thursday 6th December 12 midday – 5pm. Please bring donations along and get yourself some vintage items!

The next Environmental Sustainability Topic Lunch will take place on January 28th 1-2pm in Room B404 - LT2 of UCL’s Cruciform Building:

Environmental Sustainability Topic Lunch Presentation by Stephanie Gauthier (UCL Energy Institute.)

Thermal comfort has widespread implications, including health and energy demand, yet little is known about the interrelation between thermal-discomfort responses and physical settings. This research presents a mixed-methods’ framework to measure environmental and physiological variables. One of the key aims is to gather accurate measurements while using ‘discreet’ observatory systems to have minimum impact on the occupants’ behaviour.

UCL is developing its first Environmental Sustainability Strategy. Please see Our Commitments for the consultation document, open for comments from UCL staff and students until 10th December.

Last Monday Alastair McMahon (BioRegional) gave the third presentation of the Environmental Sustainability Topic Lunch series entitled “Urbanisation in China.”

The Green Innovation UCL programme started yesterday with a workshop where we gathered your ideas... 

The first forum of the Green Innovation UCL programme will take place on Wednesday 31st October 3-6pm in Chandler Building B02. At the forum we will be outlining the challenge for this year, what the programme will involve and starting the innovation process. It should be a fun and interesting afternoon. See the Green Innovation UCL page for more details on the programme.

The food was planted, the clothes were exchanged, the bikes were fixed... so how did it all go?

See our blog for some highlights from the event.

October 18th will have a host of transport related activities in the Quad and South Cloisters.

The timings of the lead cycle rides and maintenance workshops have now been confirmed, see the timings page.

Congratulations to the authors of the winning poster in the competition:

It's the MATERIALS DAY of Green Week UCL!

It's FOOD DAY of Green Week UCL!

Now online: Green Week poster competition abstracts. The posters are on topics related to the environment and will be on display in the South Cloisters October 16th-17th, come down to take a look and rate the posters! The winning poster will be announced on October 17th.