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Bobby contacted the course to say that he was interested in setting up a designers guild, for anyone interested in sustainable and ethical design. He had learnt of the Green exchange. An exclusive opportunity for Leeds Students, with the possibility of funding if our work/ideas are good enough. The idea is to create a way in which to promote education and awareness of sustainability and ethics.
http://www.thegreenexchange.co.uk/
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HOW TO GET SOME CASH
15 is the number you need to remember!
The deadline for applications is the 15th of each month. The application will then be assessed against criteria by our panel and a decision reached by the 15th of the following month.
For more information about applications, or to receive an application form, email Anna (greenexchange@leeds.ac.uk) or pop into the office on floor 2 of the Union building! We have drop in sessions between 1pm and 5pm every Friday, so please do pop in to talk to us about your idea.
Just to confirm – If you’re a Leeds student (regardless of what college or uni you attend), you can apply for a pot of cash. We are a friendly bunch and open to any exciting ideas you may have!
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The website is full of information to get a full understanding of what the green exchange is all about.
When Bobby mentioned that the guild was involved in sustainable design, I felt I should go and ask further questions about what his intentions were with the Guild as it is an area in which I am interested and what I am writing my dissertation on.
After having a brief chat with Bobby, I decided it would be a good thing to get myself involved in and the idea of funding is always an exciting prospect.
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Meeting
We got together as a group to discuss what it is we were doing.
- As a collective we need to do a self directed brief.
- Promote education/sustainable/ethical design.
- What are we going to pitch to them?
Ideas
- Try and get more sustainable/ethical knowledge/teaching in the curriculum.
- Inks?
- Electricity provider for uni?
- Heating in uni.
- Talk to Graham.
- Deadline 15th each month of 2015.
We decided from this point on we would have a meeting every Tuesday at 1pm.
Q1. What do you think of the College’s sustainable approaches?
Q2. What is the College currently doing to be a more sustainable establishment?
Q3. Is there anything which you would like to see the College do more of?
Q4. What is it you do for the College?
Q5. Is there an imbalance in some sustainable areas? Eg. Printing vs Lighting.
Q6. Do you think the College has a responsibility to educate the students on sustainable practices?
(Q7. What would you like to see done?)
Q8. Is there anything other Colleges/Universities could learn from LCA?
Q9. Do you feel the work done by the sustainable “board” is acknowledged by others?
THE GREEN EXCHANGE - TALK/WORKSHOP
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Myself, Bobby and Laura went to a talk at Leeds uni given by the green exchange. We all thought that this was just going to be a talk/lecture given by the people who run and have set up the green exchange, however we had 3 brief talks before having an interactive workshop.
TALKS
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Emma
- go to her to talk about funding, budget, project directing
- can find her on level 2 of student union
- the green exchange were given £250,000 to make leeds more green
- £60,000 of that is available to us for funding
- projects cannot be for commercial gain
- you must provide proof of need
- must include some element of carbon reduction
- Emma's project - HOME GROW YOUR OWN
- it got 10 student volunteers
- taught people how to grow their own food
- other projects include - THE REAL JUNKFOOD PROJECT
- PROJECT ENVIRONMENT
- InformARTive - LCA
- we can use these for inspiration
Sam
- From the uni
- Hot spots - Leeds
- Earth hour - different campaigns
- training/inspirational talks
- 'Pocket Guide to Sustainable Purchasing' - Book specific to what they do
- Just launched sustainable construction publication/organisation
- @UoL_SUS - Twitter
Ed
- From Leeds for Change
- Lives in Beeston
- 'Anything for us without us is against us'
- Research, research, research - what we need to do
- Day event - SUMMAT NEW
- LS14 Development trust
- Peddlers Arms
- Andy Walker
We were then split into groups with people we didn't know of 3 and had to come up with 3 ideas for a project. We then were placed with another group of 3 and had to take our 6 ideas and finalise them down into 3... We did this over and over so at the whole group were left with 3 ideas.
The workshop was really helpful, it took me out of my design head in a way and got me thinking about the endless possibility where design could be used but not necessarily the main focus that would be a good project that would get funding from the green exchange.
There was one idea, which was 'VERTICAL GARDENS' that all three of us really liked. So we were told to put our name and email next to the ideas we were potentially interested in working on. This would mean that it would be more of a group project, we would be working with students from different university's which was something I thought was very beneficial and exciting, as it was different.
The ideas we came up with in the session would be fast tracked to the panel. however we could still however come up with our own ideas and pursue these.
THE GREEN EXCHANGE - TALK/WORKSHOP
____
Myself, Bobby and Laura went to a talk at Leeds uni given by the green exchange. We all thought that this was just going to be a talk/lecture given by the people who run and have set up the green exchange, however we had 3 brief talks before having an interactive workshop.
TALKS
____
Emma
- go to her to talk about funding, budget, project directing
- can find her on level 2 of student union
- the green exchange were given £250,000 to make leeds more green
- £60,000 of that is available to us for funding
- projects cannot be for commercial gain
- you must provide proof of need
- must include some element of carbon reduction
- Emma's project - HOME GROW YOUR OWN
- it got 10 student volunteers
- taught people how to grow their own food
- other projects include - THE REAL JUNKFOOD PROJECT
- PROJECT ENVIRONMENT
- InformARTive - LCA
- we can use these for inspiration
Sam
- From the uni
- Hot spots - Leeds
- Earth hour - different campaigns
- training/inspirational talks
- 'Pocket Guide to Sustainable Purchasing' - Book specific to what they do
- Just launched sustainable construction publication/organisation
- @UoL_SUS - Twitter
Ed
- From Leeds for Change
- Lives in Beeston
- 'Anything for us without us is against us'
- Research, research, research - what we need to do
- Day event - SUMMAT NEW
- LS14 Development trust
- Peddlers Arms
- Andy Walker
We were then split into groups with people we didn't know of 3 and had to come up with 3 ideas for a project. We then were placed with another group of 3 and had to take our 6 ideas and finalise them down into 3... We did this over and over so at the whole group were left with 3 ideas.
The workshop was really helpful, it took me out of my design head in a way and got me thinking about the endless possibility where design could be used but not necessarily the main focus that would be a good project that would get funding from the green exchange.
There was one idea, which was 'VERTICAL GARDENS' that all three of us really liked. So we were told to put our name and email next to the ideas we were potentially interested in working on. This would mean that it would be more of a group project, we would be working with students from different university's which was something I thought was very beneficial and exciting, as it was different.
The ideas we came up with in the session would be fast tracked to the panel. however we could still however come up with our own ideas and pursue these.
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