Transcript Operational Environmental Sustainability

Professor Tony Stevenson
Pro-Vice Chancellor Planning and Resources
World Environment Day
Vision 2021
• To Achieve – Financial and Environmental Sustainability
• Societal Challenges – Ageing; Sustainability; Social
Renewal
Operational Environmental Sustainability
The ESS Sustainability Team and a network of 80 volunteer Environmental Co-ordinators
work to reduce the environmental impacts of the University.
Recent achievements include:
• Attaining a 1st Class award from People and Planet Green League 2012 (26th) – 2013 (**th)
• Dual accreditation- EcoCampus Platinum & ISO14001
• Recycling Rate <90% and zero waste to landfill
• Completion of £4.4m boiler scheme saved 1,500t CO2
• An additional £1.2M invested in carbon reduction projects over last 5
years, saving £427k and 2,500 tonnes CO2 p.a.
• Energy consumption contained despite new buildings
• 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
20.5% in 2012
• Continued implementation of biodiversity action plan including creation
of a pollinator garden
• Undertaken 2nd year of Green Impact
Nominations For Best Environmental Initiative
• Calculating the Carbon Footprint and Establishing a Carbon
Strategy for O’Brien and Sons Ltd
• Systematic development of an intervention aimed at promoting
active school travel among primary school children
• Big Sea Survey
• Earth Day: The Face of Climate Change at NUMed
• EAT@NCL Sustainable Food initiatives
• U-Café Project
Best Environmental Initiative- HIGHLY COMMENDED
Earth Day: The Face of Climate
Change at NUMed
Library, IT & student’s Stay Green Society at NUMed
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21st – 26th April
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Earth Night- all campus lights switched off from 7-9pm
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Earth Week Exhibition
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“No plastic bag or polystyrene boxes” event at the
Tyne Cafe
Best Environmental Initiative- HIGHLY COMMENDED
Big Sea Survey
Dr Jane Delany and Dr Heather Sugden
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Trained 350 members of the public, retained
70% of these in 3 year long project to record
marine species abundance along North East
Coast.
Educated and raised awareness of marine
and climate change issues within the public.
Data collected by volunteers is feeding into
national databases to inform marine policy
and wider conservation.
Best Environmental Initiative- HIGHLY COMMENDED
EAT@NCL Sustainable
Food Initiatives
Accommodation & Hospitality Services
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Creation of a Healthy & Sustainable Food Policy
2011 Good Egg award
2012 Bronze Food for Life for EAT@Courtyard
and EAT@Bistro
Initiatives include:
– locally sourced and free range eggs
– use of MSc certified sustainable fish
– Seasonal menus
Best Environmental Initiative- WINNER
U-Café Project
Newcastle University staff and students from
CEGs, Architecture, Fine Art, Music and CURDs
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Exploring the potential of up-cycling
Created a café made entirely from waste
Challenging perceptions of what is waste
>150 visitors over 3 days
Children from Hadrian Primary School staged a
concert in the U-Café using instruments made
from used bottles and boxes
Awards 2013
Green Impact Working Towards Labs Bronze Award
Merz Court
Green Impact Bronze Awards
NUBsies
IGM Green Team
Catering Bronze- Lean Mean Catering Machine
Green Impact Silver Awards
Estate Support Service
The Wombles (Leazes Terrace)
Teamo Verda
(School of Modern Languages)
IHS Ecoteam
Mean Green Impact Machine
Estate Support Service
Devonshire Green Team
Library Green Group
Highest Achieving Green Impact Team
King’s Gate Eco-team
Green Impact Innovation Award
Devonshire Green Team
‘Give Up the Lift For Lent’ Campaign
• 947 trips up the stairs recorded during
the challenge
• ~120kg C02 saved
Green Impact Students Union- GOLD AWARD
Sustainable Estate Project Award
Dave Pearson- Cyclotron Project
Outstanding Individual Contribution to
Sustainability at Newcastle University
Jennifer Molyneux