Celebrating Success 5 th June, 2014
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Celebrating Success5th June, 2014
Professor Tony StevensonPro-Vice-Chancellor Planning and Resources
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World Environment Day
Vision 2021
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• To Achieve – Financial and Environmental Sustainability
• Societal Challenges – Ageing; Sustainability; Social Renewal
Operational Environmental Sustainability
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Recent achievements include:
• Attaining a 1st Class award from People and Planet Green League 2013
• Dual accreditation- EcoCampus Platinum & ISO14001 – Renewed 2014
• Recycling Rate >90% and zero general waste to landfill
• Introduced resource redistribution scheme, WARPit
• Completion of £4.4m boiler scheme saved circa 6000t CO2 to date
• An additional £1.2M invested in carbon reduction projects over last 5 years, saving £427k and 2,500 tonnes CO2 p.a.
• Water use reduced by a further 3.9% - 23.9% since 2008/9
• Proportion of staff travelling to work by car reduced from 40% in 2004 to 19.6% in 2013
• Undertaken 3rd year of Green Impact
The ESS Sustainability Team and a network of 80 volunteer Environmental Co-ordinatorswork to reduce the environmental impacts of the University.
Operational Environmental Sustainability
2007/08
2008/09
2009/10
2010/11
2011/12
2012/13
0
20
40
60
80
100
2945
7997 94 93
General waste recycled
% of general waste recycled.Target: Maintain rate above 90%
40.4
20.7
16.9
9.75.3 0.60.3 0.3
Commuting 2004Car single occ.Train/MetroBus WalkCyclePark & RideMotorbikeOtherCar share
19.6
29.126.6
11.48.7
0.31.2 3.1
Commuting 2012Car single occ.Train/MetroBus WalkCyclePark & RideMotorbikeOtherCar share
Electricity Gas Total
-300-250-200-150-100
-500
50100150
-271
87
-184
CO2 Emissions (Tonnes)
CO2 Emissions (Tonnes)
Electricity Gas Total
-£50,000
-£40,000
-£30,000
-£20,000
-£10,000
£-
£10,000
£20,000
-£45,077
£14,154
-£30,924
Cost (£)
Cost
Windsor Terrace Development Savings
Sustainability Resource Guide
Best Environmental Initiative – Highly Commended
• Launched 12th March 2014
• Collaborative Project between the University Library, SAgE and the Institute for Sustainability
• Provides a comprehensive source of information on all aspects of sustainability
L-R Karen Crinnion, Moira Bent, Jen Hazelton, Sue Haile
Caryn Evans
Richard Adamson
EAT@NCL Sustainable Food Initiatives
Best Environmental Initiative – Highly Commended
• 10 Outlets awarded Bronze Food for Life
• MSC certified fish in all outlets
• Contract established to send all food waste to anaerobic digestion, diverting waste from landfill
• Purchased an electric vehicle for delivered services
• Healthy and Sustainable Food Policy
Grounds Team Biodiversity Initiatives
Best Environmental Initiative – Highly Commended
Tom Vasey
Ian WalkerPollinator Garden- Robinson Library
Guided Tree Walks Paul Cowan
Best Environmental Initiative - Winner
Accommodation & Hospitality Foodbank Initiative
• Launched summer 2013
• Residents of University owned accommodation encouraged to donate any unopened food jars/tins/packets
• Campaign repeated in Christmas 2013
• 1 metric ton of food waste donated to the Trussell Trust Foodbanks
Sustainable Estate Project – Highly Commended
Grand Hotel Refurbishment
L-R John McNeil, Andy Ransome,Paul Bandeen, Robin Beattie
Paul Nicholson
Sustainable Estate Project - Winner
Cockle Park Refurbishment
Green Impact Working Towards Bronze Award- Merz Court
L-R Daniel Nova, Zaynab Sherif, Rob Dixon, Isabel Cipriani Avila
Green Impact Bronze AwardNUBsies (NU Business School)
Ellen Arkless
Green Impact Bronze AwardCastle Leazes
June Battista
Green Impact Bronze AwardsPsycho Warriors
L-R Katie Lodge, Se-Wah Shek and Karen Clark
Richard Armstrong
Darren Burr
Ashleigh Gibson
Green Impact Silver Award Library Green Group
Terri HennisseySara BirdRichard CatherallDeborah Anderson L-R Linda Errington, David Gardner, Libby Matthewson
Green Impact Catering Gold Award Lean Green Catering Machine
Kay Jones
Megan Robson Nikki Watkins
Steven Hogg Michelle Milligan
Green Impact Gold Award King’s Gate Ecoteam
Steven Hogg Helen Butler Melanie Dunnett Elaine Patterson
Marie Pattison Rachel Watson
Green Impact Gold Award The Wombles (Leazes Terrace)
L-R Kathleen Stevenson, Mark Barrow, Ian Brown
Helen Pearson Dylan Berry
Green Impact Highest Achiever Award-IHS Ecoteam
L-R Ruth Wood, Matthew Breckons, Juliet Schick, Liam Dale, Lindsay Bramwell and Denise Heighton
Angela Jones
Tomos Robinson
Green Impact Innovation Award-IHS EcoTeam
L-R Ruth Wood, Matthew Breckons, Juliet Schick, Liam Dale, Lindsay Bramwell and Denise Heighton
Angela Jones
Tomos Robinson
• Launched IHS EcoTeam blog• Promotion of green initiatives though IHS webpages• Support with recruiting new teams to the scheme
Outstanding Achievement Award
Students’ Union and SCAN
• NUS Green Fund Projects (various)
• Green Impact Student’s Union Gold
L-R Red Kellie, Bob Milan, Phillip Hay
SCAN Committee 2014
Thank you and
Congratulations to all
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