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Could your students tackle sustainable water issues?

12/03/2018 by Paul Ducker Leave a Comment

In this guest post Amber Robinson explains how Water Explorer is inspiring 8-14 year-olds in the UK and around the world to lead action on water issues. Alongside their own actions students also get to link up with groups of children taking similar action in other countries. Plus, Water Explorer’s online resources are freely available. What a great way to engage young people with action on water issues, starting locally but thinking globally.

Filed Under: Featured, Water Tagged With: case study, global goals, guest post, international, participatory, SDGs, teaching, teaching resources, water

In practice: Edinburgh Zoo’s behaviour change drive to increase recycling

31/08/2017 by Paul Ducker 1 Comment

In practice: Edinburgh Zoo’s behaviour change drive to increase recycling: “Attracting more than half a million visitors each year, Edinburgh Zoo has a significant opportunity to engage consumers on sustainability at a large scale. Here, edie charts an award-winning behaviour change drive which has helped the attraction divert 98% of its waste away from landfill.” […]

Filed Under: Spotted on the web, Waste Tagged With: behaviour change, case study, ISO14001, recycling, strategy

Green Building Council office refurb sets record for low-carbon impact

01/11/2016 by Paul Ducker

The refurbishment of the offices of the UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) in Central London has achieved the lowest embodied carbon footprint ever recorded for a UK office refurbishment. The refurbishment project has resulted in a 139kgCO2/m2 embodied carbon footprint for the 162m2 office floorspace – 22% below a comparable “standard” fit-out.

Filed Under: Carbon reduction, Energy efficiency, Planning and design, Retrofit, Spotted on the web Tagged With: buildings, case study, refurbishment

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Reading Sustainability Centre

We are an education project linked to Reading Hydro. Our goal is that Reading is recognised as a leader in practical action on sustainability, as well as a great place to live.

We are mostly virtual at the moment, but are working with a variety of partners to support the development of local sustainability experiments as well as ‘pop-up’ exhibitions and events. So please do keep checking back, or sign up for updates below. If you’d like to get more directly involved just drop us a line.

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