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• Cold Storage in Laboratories
• Recycle fair at Easter Bush
• Procurement Office adopts Marrakech approach
• Staff and students celebrate Edinburgh Sustainability Awards 2013
• Ancient reservoir holds clues to help climate change technology
• Attend the Sustainability Awards 2013
• New food network opens
• Cold storage in laboratories
• Chemical Management: A Worthy Investment
• 2013 Travel Survey Launched
• A better lock could save your bike
• Climate Week 4-10 March 2013
• New recycling bins start rolling out in cafés and foyers
• First Scottish University to win a Food for Life Bronze Award
• Innovative Learning Week 2013
• Sharing efficient and sustainable lab practices
• Know your heater
• Make your lab safer, sustainable & more efficient
• Sustainability Office seeks new Director
• Become an active travel champion
• New home for Sustainability Office
• Commuter cycle training
• Help us all recycle more, and more easily
• Encouraging sustainability
• New Sustainability Office Vacancies
• Take part in the sustainability awards
• Sustainable road to gold
• Sustainability Office vacancies
• A welcome to new students
• Dust down those trainers
• SEAG Summer Away Day
• Fair Trade at the University of Edinburgh
• Resources for Sustainable Research Practice
• Up to 10% Energy Reductions in the SMC
• Survey about sustainable research
• New internships with Transition Edinburgh University
• Social Responsibility and Sustainability Away Day
• Edinburgh Awarded First Class in Green League
• Sustainability Engagement campaign projected to save £100,000
• Edinburgh Sustainability Awards winners 2012

Transition on Tour

The University is to celebrate Go Green Week by welcoming Transition on Tour to Edinburgh on Friday 10th February.

Open to all students and staff, the event offers free training to help you manage successful environmental behaviour change projects.

Free Training

Transition on Tour will be travelling across four universities in Scotland to bring you a fantastic day of free training.

The training will help you launch the most successful environmental projects in your community whilst giving you valuable, transferable skills for your whole life.

The morning workshop will share the lessons learnt in the Transition Edinburgh University project over 2009-2011.

Students and staff will be able to attend a range of valuable workshops throughout the day including:

• 9.30am - 1.30pm, Project Development & Communications Training
• 1.30pm - 2pm, Free Lunch
• 2pm - 3pm, Sustainable Colleges Networking Session
• 3pm - 5pm, Practical 'How to' Skill-Share Workshops
• 3pm - 7pm, Energy Ambassadors Training
• Evening, Pedal Powered Cinema

This article was published on Feb 1, 2012

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