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In Oadby Halls? Have unwanted clotthes? Then Swap them! From 11am in the John Foster Hall Bar, exchange your old clothes for some you actually want, a great away to avoid Saturday shopping!

For the 3rd day of Go Green Week, we are asking students and staff to walk into campus.

One of the best things you can do for this planet is to cut down on your Carbon footprint and one of the best ways you can do this is by looking at your transport.

So, if you walk, cycle, car-share or bus into campus, come to the Percy Gee Building and you’ll get a FREE tea or coffee. Environment Team volunteers will be at the various entrances to campus to give you a voucher. 

Not on campus?

The think about how you get around, could you make your journey more Green?

Post your journey on our Facebook event.

Come down to Queens Hall Foyer for a free smoothie!

Made with fruit donated from businesses in Leicester, the free smoothies aim to educate students on the concept of loving food, but hating waste.

To find out more, come and meet the University of Leicester Environment Team or visit Love Food Hate Waste

Visit Facebook for more on Go Green Week

Monday is the start of Go Green Week, so we want you to come to the Percy Gee Building and make a pledge. The best one will get free entry to Red Leicester!

Not on Campus? Then upload from home a photo of you with your pledge to the Facebook event

Make this week, the Greenest week you have ever had.

Did you know that over 400 members of the University’s staff and students are working together in teams to make a ‘Green Impact’ in their department?

Students’ Union win Sound Impact Silver Award for their environmental sustainability work this year.

Students’ unions are leading the way in greening campuses and communities across the UK, according the latest findings of NUS’s green scheme.

The Sound Environmental Impact Awards seek to capture the positive green innovations in students’ unions and promote them to the general public.

The University of Leicester Students’ Union managed to improve their performance this year by 100 points and was awarded Silver. Notable environmental improvements were a carbon neutral Freshers’ Fair powered with Biofuel to being of the lead Unions in the UK that…

Owen Jones, Campaigns & Involvement Officer, has been elected to NUS Services Limited (NUSSL), the commercial arm of the National Union of Students to oversee the environmental and ethical aspects of their activity.

At the NUS Services Limited (NUSSL) AGM held in Liverpool on March 31th 2010 Owen Jones, the Campaigns & Involvement Officer at the Students’ Union, was elected to the Environmental and Ethics Committee.

His responsibility will be to assist NUSSL in how they can maintain their ethical practises as well as promoting environmental best practise throughout all the Student Unions across the country that are affiliated with…

Mintues of the Environmetal Forum held Feb 2010

If you’d like to get involved with the eco action within the Union or any matter that were discussed within these minutes contact the Campaigns & Involvement Officer - Owen Jones

owen@leicesterunion.com
0116 2231125