What are we doing now?

Group 1

• Seminars (and other mechanisms) to share good practice
• Eco Schools will operate in Scotland in 2011-2012 (Scottish Government Funding)
• People and Planet empowering students in universities and colleges to run low carbon initiatives
• Scottish Government promoting and monitoring UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UNDESD) Action Plan
• NUS promoting and developing Green Skills and work experience for students
• Making films to promote awareness of “the big picture”.
• Delivering research learning to practitioners and partnering with them to implement findings
• Enabling people to be involved in their organisation’s sustainability agenda.

Group 2

• Devising learning and teaching resources
• In-service courses for teachers with a focus on SDC
• Working in partnership with local and national organisation on SDE projects – training, networking, supporting groups / communities we work with
• Research project- ESD resources for youth work
• Feasibility of Eco Clubs
• Bringing everyone together for this ESD conference
• Setting up food, energy, travel and consumption projects and educating Edinburgh students and staff by enrolling them e.g. “Carbon Conversations”.
• Designing Futures Project (university + secondary schools, community...).

Group 3

• Reduced CO2 by 25% internally – engaging staff, empowering people and ownership over sustainability – structured approach, e.g. NUS Green Impact
• Lobbying University – pushing sustainability agenda with university senior management (People & Planet Green League).
• Face-to-face interactions that create stronger campus community.
• Low-carbon cooking workshops
• Local holidays (subsidised)
• Energy Audits of flats
• Cycle maintenance skills share
• Film nights / talks – awareness raising and discussions around student lifestyles
• Veg Bag – organic and local food cooperative

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