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Green Impact Award 2013 Gold CEGE

  Green Impact Award April 24th 2013

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  More...

Published: May 2, 2013 11:55:53 AM

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Green Champions Forum and Training Sessions

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. More...

Published: Mar 11, 2013 10:39:22 AM

Timings for Transport Day

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Schedule for Green Week UCL Transport Day October 18th.

Lead Bike Rides

A. Bloomsbury-Soho Hire Bike Crawl & Demo – 60 minutes

Meet 12.00 at LCC stall in South Quad

Depart 12.15

Finish by 13.15

Tour of Bloomsbury and Soho. Starting with a quick demo of how to hire a TfL bike then a ‘pootle’ around of the area.  

B. Camden Town (and back) bike ride

Meet 13.00 at LCC stall in South Quad

Depart 13.15

Finish by 13.30

Cycle Maintenance Workshops

Maintenance Workshop 1 - Brakes, Gears and other important bits - 45 mins

12:00-12:45

Tour around the bicycle and ABC check.

Maintenance Workshop 2 – Keeping you bike clean and safe in winter -45 mins

13:00-13:45

How to make sure your bike stays in tip top condition over the dark winter months. Tips on keeping your chain running smooth and how make sure you’re seen at night.