The E4SL Forum
Our P&P group set up a Going Greener Steering Group called the Education for Sustainable Living (E4SL) Forum. Together with the uni’s Environment Team we created a monthly forum that allows students and staff to express their ideas regarding environmental issues around campus. Monthly meetings have included workshops from Emerge and the Environment Team.
We’ve started by focussing on the area of waste, one of the areas that MMU massively needs to improve. We’ve sent letters to the VC and the uni’s Directorate regarding paper usage; enabling double-sided printing and procuring recycled paper. So far our ideas have all been received with great enthusiasm and a commitment to create a university-wide strategy!
The Forum is involved in planning Go Green Week 2010 and at our next meeting we’ll brainstorm other manageable waste-related tasks that the Forum can change around campus. We’ve also set up a new Mug for Life initiative, helping students to save 112g of CO2 with every refill.
To promote the E4SL Forum and make it as accessible and easy as possible for everyone at MMU to join in (both staff and students) we’ve set up a blog, a facebook group, a twitter feed and created posters and short videos to advertise our meetings and work.
Meetings are held on the second Thursday of month at 5pm in Conference room 1 in the Student Union and everyone is welcome to come along!
