jamie agombar, ethical and environmental manager, nus students’ green fund

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Jamie Agombar, Ethical and Environmental Manager, NUS

Students’ Green Fund

600 FE and HE SUs

7m students

Societies, course reps,

trustees

National Union of Students

• 600 students’ unions• 7 million students • 4,700 SU staff; 500 sabbatical

officers• 220 NUS staff; 10% full-time on

sustainability• The new kids on the block

Green Impact Students’ Unions

• Started in students’ unions• Defra catalyst funding to extend across

campus: now 58 TEIs on self-funded basis, plus community organisations

• Last year 1,134 teams reaching 48,655 staff; 50,324 greening actions, 24,167 as a result of Green Impact!

• 1,200 student auditors trained

• Inter-dormitory energy competition• 55 HEIs, 130,000 student rooms• Last year average 6.1% reduction; 609 tCO2• Saved £1m cash for HEIs to date

• Local food growing scheme on 18 campuses• Local student-led groups, veg boxes schemes and catering• Covertly engaging academics

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Green Impact Students' Unions

Green Impact Universities and Colleges

Green Impact Community

Student Switch Off universities

Student Eats sites

Greener Living As-sistants (culmula-tive)

An analysis of the effectiveness of different approaches for encouraging

energy-efficient behavioural change and factors affecting behavioural persistence

An Action Based Research report completed for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

(Defra)

Staff in departments

Students in halls

Curriculum

Private accommodation

Private accommodation

Habit discontinuity hypothesis

“It is worth noting that the destruction of the planet is not the work of ignorant people. Rather it is largely the results of work by people with BAs, BScs, LLBs, MBAs, and PhDs …Education can equip people to be more effective vandals of the earth.

If one listens carefully, it may even be possible to hear the Creation groan every year in late May when another batch of smart, degree-holding, but ecologically illiterate, Homo sapiens who are eager to succeed are launched into the biosphere”

David Orr

Vision for our sustainability work

1. Students’ unions as green hubs: SUs – Institutions – Community

2. Students leave tertiary education as part of the solution to environmental challenges rather than part of the problem // sustainable citizenship

NUS HEA surveys: A latent student interest in sustainability

A chart from the U.N.’s latest climate report shows the planet’s rising temperatures from 1901 to 2012

Earth’s rising temperatures 1901 to 2012 (IPCC 2013)

GreenPad

• Staffordshire Students’ Union

• Green lettings agency• Engaging landlords• Engaging student

tenants

Greener Gloucestershire

• University of Gloucestershire Students’ Union• New social enterprises – honey co-op, green

marketing agency, business support• 20 paid student placements in local businesses, and

big green gap year• Green Impact out into the community, businesses,

sports clubs, everywhere

Students’ Green Unit

• University of Exeter Students’ Guild

• Five student interns: education, research, community and student employability, operations

• Mini fund - 40 x £1k• Blending academic

might with student energy to create cultural transformation of the University

Cycling 4 All

• University of Bradford Students’ Union

• Pathfinder project• Engaging students with

disabilities in well-being, and environmental wellbeing

Sheffield on a Plate

• Three students’ unions: Sheffield Hallam, University of Sheffield and Sheffield and College

• City-wide food growing, cooking, eating• 83,000 students• Master chefs • World record soup

Collectively the projects will achieve…

Impact • 4,000 tCO2/year

saved• Increase in pro-

environmental behaviours

• Engaged institutional leaders and academics

• Students become meaningful agents of change

• Institutions integrate sustainability into their core purpose

Reach25 projects will engage 352,000 students, 15% of the students in English HE

A chart from the U.N.’s latest climate report shows the planet’s rising temperatures from 1901 to 2012

www.nus.org.uk/greener jamie.agombar@nus.org.uk

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