environment

The Green Impact Students' Unions Awards

Green Impact is an accreditation scheme for environmental best practice in students’ unions, aimed at both Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE).

The purpose of the Green Impact Awards is to:

     - Encourage

     - Nurture

     - Reward

     .....and Celebrate environmental best-practice in unions.

The Green Impact Awards comprises a list of criteria, each relating to a different action that will help the Union to reduce its negative impact on the environment.

For example, to gain the Bronze Standard, each union entering the scheme needs to mark all of the twenty-four essential criteria to say whether or not the union is meeting it.

There are also a number of bonus criteria that are optional - unions are encouraged to answer as many of these as possible to pick up extra points and a higher score that will put their Union in the running for Silver Standard or even a Gold Award.
 
MMUnion have been signed up to the scheme since 06/07 and achieved the Silver Award last year. MMUnion is committed to continuously working towards lessening our environmental impact and we are delighted to announce that we have just received the Gold Award for 2010/11.
 
If you want to get involved directly with environmental issues you can contact your student president Rob Croll at s.u.president@mmu.ac.uk or look at joining the People and Planet Society.

To find out more about Green Impact and the criteria we need to meet, visit the green impact website or downoad the document below:

More about environmental issues

Recycling and Renewable Energy

Shopping with a Conscience

Travel

Community Actions & Campaigns

Upcoming Activities & Ongoing Campaigns

How to Find Us:

In Manchester:

http://www.mmu.ac.uk/travel/allsaints/

In Crewe:

http://www.mmu.ac.uk/travel/crewe/

Useful links to help you do your bit