One of the things I am doing at the moment is improving our environmental performance, off the back of our Silver Award for Sound Impact. Obviously, this has to be maintained, and there are always we can improve.
At the moment I am looking at operational things - such as making sure that useable crockery and cutlery are used in the new cafe, along with free range ingredients where possible, as these are just as important as anything massively visual that we may choose to do.
When I was at the NUSSL dinner other unions won awards or were highly commended for being innovative in their work. Reading won an award for doing a "Reading in Bloom" competition - students were encouraged to plant flowers in their gardens to make their environment nicer, and Loughborough won an award for the E+E section of their website, found at http://www.lufbra.net/eande/. And UEA got commended for their food labelling scheme - where they labelled food based on food miles.
Although I'm getting on with the operation stuff, do you have any ideas on innovative things we can do to raise awareness about the environment? This can be about the local environment or the wider world.
If you do, let me know on h.lazell@guild.bham.ac.uk
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