{"id":6235,"date":"2015-02-11T08:25:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T08:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6235"},"modified":"2015-02-11T08:25:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T08:25:01","slug":"hold-the-front-page-bath-comes-15th-in-world-green-university-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/02\/11\/hold-the-front-page-bath-comes-15th-in-world-green-university-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold the Front Page: Bath comes 15th in World Green University League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will come as a shock to everyone, including the university, I fancy. \u00a0Bath usually loiters way\u00a0down the UK's 'green'\u00a0league; so, to come in the top 20 of an international league, and to beat many of the UK's usual suspects \u2013 some of which are nowhere to be seen \u2013 is remarkable. \u00a0I expect Bath will treat this in the same way is usually does these things, with a good dose of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/06\/25\/bath-slips-in-the-green-league-despite-grade-inflation\/\">Kipling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some 360 universities from 62 countries took part in this Universitas Indonesia (UI) initiative, which is now in its fifth year. \u00a0It ranks universities worldwide on the basis of their campus sustainability and environmental management efforts, under six main categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Green Statistics (15%)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Energy and Climate Change (21%)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Waste management (18%)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Water usage (10%)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Transportation (18%)\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Education (18%)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ranking is:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>University of Nottingham | UK<\/li>\n<li>University College Cork National University of Ireland | Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Nottingham Trent University | UK<\/li>\n<li>University of California, Davis | US<\/li>\n<li>University of Oxford | UK<\/li>\n<li>University of Bradford | UK<\/li>\n<li>University of Connecticut | US<\/li>\n<li>Universitat fur Bodenkultur Wien | Austria<\/li>\n<li>University of California, Berkeley | US<\/li>\n<li>Northeastern University | US<\/li>\n<li>University of Limerick | Ireland<\/li>\n<li>University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | US<\/li>\n<li>University of Plymouth | UK<\/li>\n<li>Universite de Sherbrooke | Canada<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of Bath<\/strong> | UK<\/li>\n<li>Georgia Institute of Technology | US<\/li>\n<li>University of Massachusetts Amherst | US<\/li>\n<li>Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherland<\/li>\n<li>University of Szeged | Hungary<\/li>\n<li>University of Bremen | Germany<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I wonder why this is so different from the outcomes usually accruing from <a href=\"http:\/\/peopleandplanet.org\/university-league\/2015\/tables\">P&amp;P<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will come as a shock to everyone, including the university, I fancy. \u00a0Bath usually loiters way\u00a0down the UK's 'green'\u00a0league; so, to come in the top 20 of an international league, and to beat many of the UK's usual suspects...<\/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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235","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=6235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}