{"id":7138,"date":"2017-12-15T07:47:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T07:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7138"},"modified":"2017-12-15T07:47:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T07:47:21","slug":"green-impact-at-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/12\/15\/green-impact-at-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Impact at 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, and disappointingly, I couldn't get to the NUS celebration of its Green Impact programme at the Commons late last month. \u00a0It was an enthusiastic, sell-out crowd. \u00a0NUS has helpfully written up the event (and the background to Green Impact), and you can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainability.nus.org.uk\/articles\/celebrating-ten-years-of-green-impact-at-the-houses-of-parliament\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is how the account begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Green Impact is NUS'\u00a0sustainability\u00a0accreditation scheme \u2013 which now operates in students' unions, universities, colleges,\u00a0hospitals, fire stations and other institutions, not only in the UK, but abroad too! \u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0reception\u00a0at the Houses of Parliament gathered an array of over 200 of\u00a0Green Impact's\u00a0stakeholders and supporters \u2013 from students'\u00a0union staff advocates, to NUS officers past and present, to sponsors and university staff. Guests included environmentalists Jonathon Porritt and Tim Smit,\u00a0James Bridge from UNESCO UK, Judy Ling Wong from the Black Environment Network, Tim Balcon from the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, prominent student activist Esha Marwaha, Samiah Anderson from Rethinking Economics, and Lili Sarkadi from the NUS\/Friends of the Earth\u00a0My World My Home project \u2013 among many others. ...\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do read it as it's a really positive story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, and disappointingly, I couldn't get to the NUS celebration of its Green Impact programme at the Commons late last month. \u00a0It was an enthusiastic, sell-out crowd. \u00a0NUS has helpfully written up the event (and the background 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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138","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=7138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}