Go Green Universities Action Guide
- Step 1 - Meet, discuss and plan
- Step 2 - How green is your uni?
- Step 3 - Launching the campaign
- Step 4 - Keeping the pressure on
- How your University might respond
- Case study - Nottingham's Campaign
- Sample Campaign Timeline
- How to get your campaign noticed
- Sample letter to the VC
- Ask Robbie: Go Green advice page
After running Go Green for just 4 months, Nottingham P&P convinced their Vice-Chancellor to employ a full-time Environment Manager. Here Jenny Dodson tells us how they did it:
- The P&P Climate Change intern came and facilitated a Go Green workshop for us which really clarified the aims of the campaign and got us motivated.
- We held our first proper campaign planning meeting to decide on our plan of action for piling on the pressure.
- A few days later we held the first of our weekly stalls. They were really bright and colourful, with everything green that could possibly be green - our cakes, hair, tablecloth, ribbons, clothes and sweets! We collected hundreds of signatures of support and sent them to the VC each week.
- After that we sent the Going Green report and a letter to the VC requesting a meeting. We knew he’d pay attention because of the constant stream of signatures going to his office.
- In May we had our first meeting with the VC. Three people went along, not just P&P group members but also our Student’s Union Environment Officer.
- Hard work! The petitions didn’t sign themselves! That was down to us doing petition stalls every week.
- We held a follow-up meeting with the VC which went really well. It definitely helped that we’d brought the issue up in the Environment Committee meeting previously and knowing that lots of people within the Union and Estates Department supported us!
- SUCCESS! Our university announced the decision to appoint a full-time Environment Manager.
Nottingham P&P’s reaction:
“The new environment manager is brilliant - really showing that you need somebody within the university to get stuff done. He’s already getting a pilot aluminium recycling scheme going around campus, trying to unify recycling facilities in halls and getting involved in the Nottinghamshire Sustainability fortnight. It’s definitely one of the best and most useful things that we’ve achieved in the past years and making a huge difference on our very doorstep!”
To find out how other P&P groups have been campaigning to Go Green check out the Action Profiles in the new Going Green Table
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