{"id":1853,"date":"2012-05-25T09:22:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2012-05-25T09:22:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:22:41","slug":"guardian-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/05\/25\/guardian-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is notoriously difficult to capture education activities focused on sustainability in a picture \u2013 quite often they look like a bunch of people sitting around talking \u2013 an accurate reflection of reality in many ways. \u00a0So well done to the Guardian for choosing a picture of a field and a wood to illustrate its forthcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/education\/2012\/may\/24\/green-universities-webchat\">webchat<\/a> on whether students benefit from green universities. \u00a0The piece begins ...<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Universities may have good intentions \u2013 but in practice, being eco-friendly isn't always high on the agenda. \u00a0Following on from next week's launch of the <a href=\"http:\/\/peopleandplanet.org\/\">People and Planet<\/a> Green League \u2013 which ranks universities to show how well they manage their environmental impact \u2013 we will be hosting a live Q&amp;A with sustainability experts and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/education\/students\">students<\/a>. \u00a0Join us ... to discuss the ways in which universities can tackle their carbon footprints \u2013 and how students can benefit from green policies. \u00a0Would you consider a university's environmental record before applying for a degree? Perhaps your own university has introduced a successful scheme. \u00a0...<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The experts <em>and students<\/em> (rather dismissive that, considering how much the NUS knows about all this) are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Debby Cotton<\/strong> is head of educational development and pedagogic research at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/\">Plymouth University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Danielle Gufferty<\/strong> is vice-president of society and citizenship at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nus.org.uk\/\">National Union of Students<\/a>, and campaigns on environmental and ethical issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gill Coleman<\/strong> is co-director of the sustainability and responsibility programme at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashridge.org.uk\/website\/content.nsf\">Ashridge Business School<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Chris Seeley<\/strong> is co-director of the sustainability and responsibility programme at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashridge.org.uk\/website\/content.nsf\">Ashridge Business School<\/a>. He is also a faculty member for the Ashridge doctorate in organisational change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Louise Hazan<\/strong> is the creator and compiler of the <a href=\"http:\/\/peopleandplanet.org\/\">People &amp; Planet<\/a> Green League and supports students campaigning to improve the environmental record of universities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Darren Twort<\/strong> is the environmental officer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesu.com\/\">Oxford Brookes Student Union<\/a>. He is studying environmental management.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not at all the usual suspects, then, thank goodness. \u00a0Though why there are two from Ashridge representing the same programme is a puzzle. \u00a0Equal ops gone wild, maybe. \u00a0Sadly, I shall be away ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is notoriously difficult to capture education activities focused on sustainability in a picture \u2013 quite often they look like a bunch of people sitting around talking \u2013 an accurate reflection of reality in many ways. \u00a0So well done to...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}