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Funded by the EPSRC through the UK Energy Research Centre, this project seeks to understand the role that procurement can (and should) play in transitioning to net zero and delivering social value in the process. We're looking to expand this research from cities and communities to HEIs.
Finance and procurement for net zero | UKERC | The UK Energy Research Centre
https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.267.s1

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In 2019, the UK became the first country to implement a net-zero emissions target by 2050. This will require...

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Practical workshops with pupils to discuss actions to make schools indoors comfortable in energy efficient ways

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Indoor environment quality in classrooms-monitoring and experiential learning

Project by Cardiff University
Dr Gabriela Zapata-Lancaster (ARCHI) and Dr Thomas Smith (GEOPLAN)

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Welsh School of Architecture + ERBAP collaboration

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Welsh School of Architecture + ERBAP collaboration

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M Arch Year 1 students collaborated with ERBAP at Cardiff University to create a tree planting guide

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17508975.2022.2147129

https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/126618/

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Unit C: Learning environments - Design Research Laboratory (LE-DR Lab)

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Postgraduate Taught> MA Architectural Design> Unit C: Learning environments - Design Research Laboratory (LE-DR Lab) The Learning Environments Design Research Laboratory (LE-DR Lab) aims to contribute to the field of university spaces and learning environments more broadly. The students are developing integrated design propositions that span spatial, digital, and organisational strategies.

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LE-DR Lab 2021/22
https://wsa-ondisplay.co.uk/2022/courses/postgraduate-taught/ma-architectural-design/unit-c/

https://futurelearningenvironments.org/le-dr-lab/

LE-DR Lab 2022/23: Design research projects looking at Cardiff University libraries

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Learning Environments - Design Research Laboratory (LE-DR Lab) is part of MA Architectural Design, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. The lab will be led by Dr Hiral Patel and will run during 2021-22. If you would like to engage with the lab, please get in touch.

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Learning Environments - Design Research Laboratory (LE-DR Lab) is part of MA Architectural Design, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. The lab will be led by Dr Hiral Patel and will run during 2021-22. If you would like to engage with the lab, please get in touch.

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South West Environmental Living Lab (U of Exeter a partner)

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South West Environmental Living Lab (U of Exeter a partner)

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£2m to fund new South West Environmental Living Lab

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The Heart of the South West LEP has announced a £2 million investment in the Environmental Living Lab, enabling the trial and demonstration of sustainable agricultural and environmental technology.

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Grange Pavilion: a green and vibrant community space - Grange Pavilion

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Explore our website to find out about the Grange Pavilion facilities, resident-led board and latest projects and events.

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The Exeter Living Lab helps people use systems tools to co-design solutions that might lead to a greener, fairer recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic in line with Exeter’s Net Zero plan and well-being ambitions. https://resiliencebrokers.org/project/exeter-living-lab/

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The Living Lab brings cross-sector stakeholders together for local solutions

Resilience Brokers has established the Pivot Projects to connect researchers, professionals and interested parties into a cross-sector collaborative to model and investigate the opportunities of creating a green recovery. The Pivot Projects engaged with the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter and established a Living Lab that is supporting students with their studies by focussing on 'live' sustainability and resilience challenges, and facilitates the emergence of a cross-sector collaboration for the region to tackle these challenges in and around Exeter.

The Exeter Living Lab helps people use systems tools to co-design solutions that might lead to a greener, fairer recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic in line with Exeter's Net Zero plan and well-being ambitions. A Living Lab is a virtual place where people from various backgrounds and disciplines come together to address local problems and aspirations through a collaborative system approach. The Living Lab is used as an open innovation platform for local decision makers, organisations and communities; encouraging collaboration to identify local problems and create, prototype and validate solutions. Technical expertise from the Pivot Projects team of global experts are available to support the Exeter Living Lab group in identifying new solutions to meet the region's aims.

Any questions about this project? Get in touch with us at team@resiliencebrokers.org

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Resilience Brokers has established the Pivot Projects to connect researchers, professionals and interested parties into a cross-sector collaborative to model and investigate the opportunities of creating a green recovery.

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Sensing in homes – New building with energy sensors, sensors on trees, reality emulator. Batteries? How become national grid's friend for dynamic energy use.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/research/digital-health/research/sphere/the-100-homes-study/

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A description of the SPHERE 100 homes study.

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The University of Bristol, and Bristol City Council, have declared a climate emergency. Organisations across the city are looking for ways to address this issue, reduce their carbon emissions and become more sustainable to meet climate targets by 2030.

Climate Action Bristol is a project linking teams of student volunteers from a range of disciplines with organisations across Bristol in order to develop and implement climate action plans, using this bespoke online planning tool.

Create an account by clicking on the button at the bottom right and once you are logged in start inputting information in order to generate your climate action plan.

The tool can be edited and updated at any time and is designed for internal organisational use to help you take climate action.

If you have any queries or require any support, please contact Sorcha Young ( manager@bristolhub.org)

Need help logging in? Click here.

if this is your first time or to retrieve an existing action plan

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The University of Bristol, and Bristol City Council, have declared a climate emergency. Organisations across the city are looking for ways to address this issue, reduce their carbon emissions and become more sustainable to meet climate targets by 2030.

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Six-month programme in which students work in teams of four to develop and implement businesses climate action plans using the Climate Action Tool.

https://www.bristolhub.org/activities/climate-action-bristol

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Bath Climate Action

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Our Climate Action graphic represents our whole institution response, both the challenge of a labyrinth and the solution of collective thinking.

See here to find out what climate change is and what you can do personally to address it.

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Our Climate Action graphic represents our whole institution response, both the challenge of a labyrinth and the solution of collective thinking. See here to find out what climate change is and what you can do personally to address it.

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Technical Infrastructure & Knowledge (TIK) working group

LEAF lab sustainability

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App being developed by Cardiff students, based on student travel toolkit developed in Exeter

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https://gw4climate.com/join-the-climate-alliance/

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Regional needs; strengths of the 4 Universities; ongoing activities, data, research, doctoral training; interdisciplinary

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As a regional anchor, GW4 aims to lead the UK and the world in accelerating to Net Zero emissions. The climate emergency is an urgent and fundamental challenge, with transport accounting for a large portion of the problem. Decarbonising transport is a key strategic policy of the UK Government, which has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 'Net Zero' by 2050.

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Developing the smart campus project at Penryn, Exeter - led by Peter Connor)

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Collaborative working and knowledge sharing between staff and students, e.g. joint conference on student activism (Oct 2022)

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Activism has been instrumental in achieving many of the most significant social transformations in history, but it is difficult to identify what makes activism successful or not.

Activism at the University of Exeter is a huge part of many students' response to the climate crisis, and a mechanism to have a positive impact on how it will unfold now and in the future.

But what is the role of student activism at the University of Exeter? What can be learned from what has or hasn't worked? How can we better understand the potential for student activism to tip the university into a new system?

Join this free workshop to find out, and hear the latest research into Positive Tipping Points, from world-leading experts. We will collectively practice using the Positive Tipping Points framework - creating the right conditions for change, finding reinforcing feedback loops, and triggering a shift into a new system - before identifying key next steps for student activism on climate at the University of Exeter.

Please note, this event will be focused on student activism across the University of Exeter (including the Penryn Campus), but others who are interested in the topic are welcome to join.

The Positive Tipping Points framework is a way to re-think our understanding of how change happens. We're familiar with negative tipping points that can accelerate the crisis, such as glacier melt or biodiversity loss, but we are also able to predict and encourage positive shifts which will help us avoid the worst impacts.

This event is part of a series of free Green Futures Network workshops following the Global Tipping Points Conference in Exeter in September. The final event will be an open space session to further explore key ideas that have emerged throughout the series. To sign up to the other events in the series, use the following links:

For more information contact Peter from the Green Futures Network at gfn@exeter.ac.uk.

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positive tipping points in practice: student activism

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positive tipping points in practice: student activism tickets

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Positive Tipping Points in Practice: Student Activism

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Activism has been instrumental in achieving many of the most significant social transformations in history, but it is difficult to identify what makes activism successful or not. Activism at the University of Exeter is a huge part of many students' response to the climate crisis, and a mechanism to have a positive impact on how it will unfold now and in the future.

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Collaborative working and knowledge sharing between staff and students, e.g. plant-based unis campaign (March 2022)

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University of Exeter - The Plant-Based Unis Campaign Launch.

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Hearing from specialist academics on sustainable food systems & climate change, and plans for the student-led Plant Based Unis Campaign.

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Annual competition for student-led innovative projects addressing environmental protection and carbon reduction challenges

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Are you looking to contribute to our Net Zero Agenda and Environment and Climate Emergency Response?

The university is looking to fund student-led innovative projects that can demonstrate environmental protection and carbon reduction for initiatives that are seen as high priority for students.

Annual fund - available for multiple projects

Maximum project cost of £5,000

Projects need to improve our sustainability and reduce the environmental impact of university activity

Offers an opportunity to gain project management definition and management experience

The Deadline for applications is 30th November 2022

2021/22 Projects

The University chose five student-led projects that demonstrated environmental protection and carbon reduction for last year's Green Futures Student Solutions - which took place between May and July 2022.

We had a great pool of applicants and took 5 projects foward which, focused on stakeholder engagement, carbon reduction, waste management and carbon accounting. The projects were defined and delivered by our students with the support of the E&CE Team and University of Exeter Academics. Projects were completed before the close of the last academic year.

Successful projects for the 2021/22 fund were:

Zayne Avril - Improvements in food waste management in our residencies

Sally McKendry - Delivery of a workshop for AU team captains on how to improve sports sustainability

Emma de Saram - Delivery of a sustainability workshop addressing the Be The Change 5 Demands

Atta Ajayebi - Development of a comprehensive whole life carbon calculation model for our supply chain

Benjamin Audidier - Development of an internal student competition to reduce water demand within residencies

During July and August Emma de Saram led 8 climate change workshops for staff and students. These ran weekly for about an hour and a half and topics involved everything from IPCC reports, to eco anxiety and finding your place in the climate movment. People that took part earned points from Green Rewards as well as a voucher from inExeter. Emma is a passionate activist and speaker and will be talking informally about Green Futures as part of Freshers on 22nd and 23rd Septemeber so do come along and meet here. Have a look at this film of one of Emma's Climate Justic Workshops in action.

Making it to the finals of the Green Gown Student Engagement Awards is a huge endorsement for this programme and a tribute to all staff involved and the students who took part. Why not see what all the fuss is about and get in touch?

If interested in taking part in 2022/23 contact us on climateemergency@exeter.ac.uk. We look forward to hearing your ideas.

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Green Futures Student Solutions - Sustainability - University of Exeter

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The university is looking to fund student-led innovative projects that can demonstrate environmental protection and carbon reduction for initiatives that are seen as high priority for students.

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ULL looking at NBS in cities (Paris, Aarhus, Croatia) - involves Exeter valuing greenspaces and other ecosystem services

https://www.regreen-project.eu/about/

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Based on the understanding of drivers and pressures that challenge future urban sustainability, REGREEN will substantially improve the evidence and tools for supporting co-creation of nature-based solutions (NBS) in urban settings, implementation of decision support systems for planning and governance, and development of business models for realising spatially relevant NBS, that provide multiple ecosystem services and wellbeing.

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Engages organisations, institutions and communities with the university’s environmental research. Has a procurement Community of Practice

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Find out how the Green Futures Network can support your work.

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Cardiff - An initial assessment in Treherbert (South Wales valleys)

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Vertically Integrated Project on Net Zero transformation

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Vertically Integrated Project on Net Zero transformation

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Vertically Integrated Projects (VIPs) are innovative research-based projects that enable students and staff to collaborate on long-term real-world issues.

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Cutting edge research exploring how the pollination of certain plants could lead to the development of drugs to treat serious medical conditions now resistant to traditional antibiotics - otherwise known as 'superbugs'.

Creating a bee friendly city

Numerous bee hives have been placed around Cardiff University. Specific plants have also been embedded throughout the campus grounds to encourage the production of super-honey and aid the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences' superbug research.
Watch our video about creating a bee friendly city
Engagement

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Cutting edge research exploring how the pollination of certain plants could lead to the development of drugs to treat serious medical conditions now resistant to traditional antibiotics - otherwise known as 'superbugs'. Numerous bee hives have been placed around Cardiff University.