Project Green offers new skills opportunity to graduates

Graduates have the chance to nurture the green shoots of a new career through a ground-breaking initiative being launched by Keele University.
Project Green, Keele University’s sustainable business programme, offers unemployed graduates – or those at risk of unemployment – the chance to gain new skills in environmental management and get paid at the same time.
The [...]

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Keele leaps up national Green League

Keele University has jumped 41 places in the Green League 2009.
The table provides UK universities with a comprehensive guide on sustainability and looks to recognise excellence in environmental performance.
It is based on information submitted by universities to People & Planet, the largest student network in Britain campaigning to end world poverty, defend human rights and [...]

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Science For Sustainability group shortlisted for national award

Keele’s Science for Sustainability group, Professor Mark Ormerod, Dr Zoe Robinson and Lucy Gallagher, School of Physical and Geographical Sciences, has been shortlisted for a prestigious Green Gown Award in the Social Responsibility category for their project ‘Science for Sustainability: Sustainable Approaches for Sustainable Communities’.
 
The project describes their highly original and innovative work in developing [...]

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Gas extraction plan gets go-ahead

Keele’s plans to develop sustainable energy resources on campus took a massive step forward when Staffordshire County Council’s planning committee last week approved the University’s application for two exploratory boreholes to be drilled on site to test the viability of extracting methane gas from unmined coalbeds.
The University is exploring a range of exciting options for [...]

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Energy plans for a 21st Century Campus

Energy plans for a 21st Century Campus
- Keele University aims to become ‘carbon neutral’ on its energy consumption and reduce dependency on the national grid
- A unique ‘land-lab’ showcase for renewable energy research and practice
 
Special presentations outlining Keele University’s plans to develop sustainable energy resources will take place in the University’s Medical School Lecture Theatre [...]

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