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Two ways to win a trip to India with NUS and clothing company Epona, to visit our Fairtrade supply chain.
A lightening eight-week campaign by King�s College Climate Emergency of daring direct actions, culminating in a 14 day hunger strike and twenty-four hour occupation, has led to a significant change o
Get your applications in for funding for Green Impact sustainability projects - last chance this academic year!
The plans follow a determined campaign by the University's Fossil Free Society, inspired by the international fossil fuel divestment movement.
Vice President Robbiie Young rounds up NUS's powerful divestment campaign so far, and looks at the vital work being done by students' unions and student activists to push their institutions to commit
In this student guest blog, Michael Kind from the University of Sheffield considers the potential of empowered students to harness a cooperative approach to renewable energy.
NUS is launching an open resource to demonstrate that sustainability can - and should - be embedded into any (yes, any!) curriculum.
Green Impact also works to make healthcare more sustainable - here's how it works, and some examples of who's involved.
Pete Offord is Campaign and Community Partnerships Coordinator at Middlesex University Students' Union. We spoke to him about engaging the student community with sustainability.
NUS' clothing company, Epona, is the first UK business to announce its backing for the pioneering Fairtrade Textile Programme.
Check out our new ratecard and bring our award winning campaigns and projects to your campus in 2017/18.
report revealing that 14% of UK universities have links with the fossil fuel industry
We've already funded some innovative sustianabilty initiatives with our microgrants - could yours be next?
Go Green Week
If you or your organisation have participated in the Green Impact programme, enter our photo competition!
If ever there is ever one thing that brings people together, it is food. And good thing too - as everyone can make a positive impact through the food choices they make.
NUS' Fairtrade clothing company's, Epona's
Our additional support can really boost your organisation's success with the Green Impact programme.
How recent graduates are helping to shape, develop and progress Green Impact in their organisations.
We spoke to Lauren Rowe, Sustainability Engagement Manager at Unite Students - the UK's leading provider of student accommodation. Lauren runs Up to uS, which was 'highly commended' in
NUS is excited to be leading on an EU Erasmus+ funded project: �European Students, Sustainability Auditing� (ESSA).
Routlegde has published a handbook of sustainable development in higher education - and we're in it!
Our Green Impact programme won a UNESCO award for Edcuation for Sustainable Development - here are the follow-up articles on our work.
More universities are integrating social and environmental sustainability into the formal and informal curriculum.
$5.2 trillion has now been extracted from fossil fuels (doubling last year's total) - and Trinity College Dublin has now joined the movement.
We're offering funded places on our Responsible Futures scheme in 2017, to help further your ESD work.
Share good practice, learn new skills and network with peers as part of the national Green Impact movement.
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The Green Impact programme has evolved since its inception ten years ago. Starting as an environmental management programme, Green Impact is now a far-reaching and holistic sustainability framework.
and writing a blog about it
The NUS and ShareAction joined members of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) to call for an end to investments in controversial weapons
The University of East London�s sustainability team was recognised with a silver �Green Apple� award at the Houses of Parliament on Friday 11 November for their Green Impact programme.
We�re proud to have published a new report on the state of sustainability across further and higher education.
New NUS research has found that over 60 per cent of all university students want to learn more about sustainability, with 87 per cent of all students agreeing that their universities should take
Michael Kind
We�re helping students take action in privately rented accommodation.
It recognises the amazing work of Green Impact over the last decade.
Over the last ten years, we�ve run Green Impact in 84 universities and colleges. This is equivalent to over 300 institutional years of student-led sustainability work.
Worldwide recognition for our pioneering work on sustainability and behaviour change. And $50,000.
some support from you
Ten years ago, Anna D'Arcy made a small, positive change at her students' union. This was the first of 250,000 actions carried out through Green Impact across the world.
We're providing �750 for every new Green Impact partnership your union sets up in the local community.
We speak to Dr. John Blewitt about the links between the marketisation of Higher Education, neoliberalism and education for sustainable development.
A guest blog post from Angus Satow of the Zero Carbon Society, telling the story of how divestment made environmentalism political at the University of Cambridge.
Over 26,000 students cut nearly 2,000 tonnes of carbon this year thanks to Student Switch Off. Why not bring it to your institution this year?
An education for sustainable development coordinator just scooped an Outstanding Contribution Teaching Award.
We�re really excited to be partnering with the Soil Association to help you improve the quality of food served across your campus.
One night on from celebrating ten years of Green Impact at Students� Unions 2016, we awarded our winners of among the participants of Green Impact Students� Unions this year.
With Green Impact Excellence, we celebrate the absolute cutting edge of student-led sustainability.
Fossil fuel companies pay our universities to produce research that enables their destructive practices. Students at the University of Sheffield want to break this financial influence.
Share good practice, learn new skills and network with peers as part of the national Green Impact movement. &n
We�re looking back over a decade of transformative sustainability action through Green Impact.
When I talk to people about divestment at Oxford, I�m often met with the response: �Oh, they divested didn�t they?� Short answer: no. The long answer is a bit more complicated. It involves far too ma
Each year, the national special awards celebrate the most innovative, the most committed and the most impactful initiatives and individuals across the hundreds of organisations running Green Impact.
Last month, the University of Leeds issued a statement explaining why they weren't going to listen to 83% of their students and divest from fossil fuels. Last week, students offered the universi
We�re really pleased to announce that the University of West of England and the Students� Union of UWE have received the Responsible Futures accreditation mark.
The University of Leeds ignored their students after an overwhelming referendum vote. They couldn�t ignore them today, and their vice chancellor heard their arguments face to face.
our new briefing
Last week we co-hosted a conference on climate change and education with UCU, at the University of Manchester. Bringing together students, academics and other stakeholders, we asked what education ca
Go Green Week is always a great week for sustainability action across students' unions - and this year was no exception. Here's what some of you got up to.
Our annual roundtable is where sustainability staff from across the student movement and tertiary education come together to shape our work for the year ahead.
Divestment from fossil fuels is one of the most rapidly spreading social justice campaigns in history, and NUS has proudly supported it since 2014. This year, we conducted research which found that:
Exploration of veganism and it's ethics in a processed food world.
Super easy squash daal recipe! A delicious and wholesome recipe to keep you warm on a chilly autumn evening.
Keep yourself toasty this autumn with this warming carrot and coriander soup.
Use up whole overripe bananas with this simple and quick banana bread recipe from Sussex Food Waste Cafe
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