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Green universities

How university staff and students are taking on the environmental agenda to produce greener campuses

November 2017

  • The Birley campus at Manchester Metropolitan University

    New university tops green table as Oxbridge lags behind

    Campuses have come a long way in the 10 years of the student-led People & Planet rankings – but there are surprising fails
  • Reading University

    Guardian Students
    University of Reading rises 42 places up the green league

  • Eric Schmidt

    Guardian Students
    The only league table where Oxford uni gets a fail

  • Cycling students

    Webchat: how can students help make their universities greener?

  • Student demonstration

    Guardian Students
    Students: it's your duty to have fun and to save the world

  • Students on Plymouth's environmental science and ocean science degrees in a scuba diving assessment

    The firsts and the 'fails' in the 2013 Green League of universities

  • Students from the Urban Gardening Society at Manchester Metropolitan University

    Ethical studies

  • veggie stall

    Guardian Students
    Students: could you turn flexitarian?

    Cash-strapped students are turning into part-time vegetarians to help save money and the environment. Could you survive a whole term without meat?
  • University of Surrey shows the biggest jump in the Green League this year, up 67 places

    Green League 2012: the biggest rises and falls

    Which universities performed especially well in the Green League this year, and which saw their haloes slip?
  • Free-range hens: using their eggs wins points for universities in the Green League

    Green League 2012: how universities can score points

    It's not just about cutting your carbon emissions - ethical investment and a sustainable food policy are among the criteria for being a green university
  • Kat Thorne, head of sustainability at Greenwich University, which has sold honey from its beehives

    Greenwich tops the university Green League

    There's a new name at the top of this year's People & Planet Green League, but campaigners say the government should do more to help
    • Get the full 2012 data

  • LSE People & Planet Green League carbon emissions

    Emissions rise at UK universities puts 2020 targets in doubt

  • How to read the Green League table

  • Grant Anderson, environmental officer at Nottingham Trent University, on the 'eco' roof.

    The Green League university tables

  • Cycling students

    What do you think of the Green League?

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