Meeting, November 3rd

So let me tell you about our great stunt last Friday. We 'illegally' spread a banner across the front of the UCL quad's stairs (that felt good) and we organized a quick photoshoot ( photos coming up soon). Apart from all this, I think we raised the awareness about UCL's crap green position, plus we got 150 UCLers to sign our Go Green Petition. Woohaa!

Here's a link to the Green League website for those curious how other universities did in the ranking: Green League

Shiv went to the London Regional Meeting last weekend, and she shared some general facts about uni's environmental performance, which I will pass on to you here (some extra knowledge is always welcome):

• around 60% of university's waste still ends up in landfills
• a university produces around 3 mln tons of CO2 annualy
  
• University accounts for 9% of the office space

Oh yet another funny fact: if we cut out meat from our diet once per week nationwide, it would be equivalent to a whole year without cars.

Tim went to the Sustainability Committee, and it seems like there were no real goals set at the meeting. As the Committee is planning to meet only around 3 times per year, looks like we are not going ot move anywhere greener anytime soon ( Just a little crash course in how to be patient ;)

There are rumours of UCL setting it's goals 10 % of its emmissions by 2013. What do you think? Are we taking it easy ? ( EU plans to cut out its emmission 20% by 2020)

Come along to our meetings. (there will be one during the reading week, for those who are staying here )