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Being a Green Champion for your School or College

Being a Green Champion means encouraging people in your team/area to be more sustainable. This may be via little actions like switching the lights off in the kitchen when you leave or it could be something bigger. There are Green Champions and Green Teams around the colleges already.

  • Birkbeck College, Planning Department - We are asking for some of the bulbs to be taken out of the lights in our office as it is too bright. This not only makes it comfortable to work but saves energy.

  • SOAS, Staff Development Office - We have incorporated Environmental Behaviour Training into our Dedicated Training Days

  • Birkbeck College, Geography - We are working with the Estates Department to offer projects to students which relate to environmental performance at the college

  • IOE, Thomas Coram Research Unit - We have been composting all our food waste and using the compost in the garden at the back of our building.

  • IOE, Thomas Coram Research Unit - We use a lot of paper so have now set all our printers to print double sided by default. Those of us who have good eyesight are also printing two pages per sheet. The idea is that if we really have to print something, at least we can waste less paper doing it.

 

Want to be a Green Champion for your area?

You will be doing your bit to make your college a greener place and the Greenthing team will give you a choice of gift to say Thankyou:

Reusable takeaway coffee cup - wash it up and reuse and get 10 pence off the price of your drink at the SU shops and refectory

Greenthing USB - 2gb of storage to help you reduce the need to print

Find out how you can get started

The colleges are committed to incorporating sustainability into the curriculum where possible. If any academic department would like help on how to incorporate sustainability within their subject - either as a specific lecture or overall - please contact greenthing@bloomsbury.ac.uk.

You can also get a gift for volunteering at one of our events. Email greenthing@bloomsbury.ac.uk to see how you can get involved at the next event.

 
The Bloomsbury Colleges, University of London: Birkbeck; Institute of Education; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; School of Oriental and African Studies; The School of Pharmacy; Royal Veterinary College.