Love Food, Love Your Planet: 6 - 10 February 2012 Go Green Week in conjunction with Food Festival
During the week starting Monday February 6 Glasgow Caledonian University will join People & Planet's annual national week of action on climate change in schools, colleges and universities with a range of activities across Campus. Combined with Encore's Food Festival there will be 5 days of enhanced ecological awareness and good green food while EcoMan will whizz around campus with a word of advice for everybody.
Feb 06 - Meat Free Monday Taste the Difference
Innovative vegetable based dishes as an alternative to meat based dishes are being introduced to the menu as healthier choices
Don't miss the opening at 12 noon of the new Deli Café in the Hamish Wood Refectory! The Students Assosication will show "An Inconvenient Truth" at 5pm on level one (North Hannover Street building) , snacks will be provided.
Feb 07 - Travel Light Tuesday World Environment Theme Day
Support Students and Staff who go around campus, especially the parking, to promote car sharing.
Check Out our car share page with goCarShare (will open in a new tab/window)
We've also set up a survey about travel for students and staff. Click here to take survey (will open in a new tab/window) The Students Assosication organises Active Travel day All day on level 1 of the Students' Association. Freebies and information will be given out.
Come and enjoy a menu that does as little as possible to cause damage to our environment.
Bring in your used plastic bags and receive discount vouchers.
Try your hand at aluminium can compacting.
Also Fair-Trade Food and Organic Coffee Supplier exhibitions with tastings
Feb 08 - Waste Not Wednesday
Bring your old clothes and books to collection boxes at entrances and catering outlets. There's also a collection point in the Students Association on level one. These boxes will be collected by the Brittish Heart Foundation.
Check out the map of Charity Shops near Campus at the bottom of this page for future redundant items. This map was creating for this event but will maintain on this section of the GCU website in the future.
Bring in your used plastic bags and receive discount vouchers.
Try your hand at aluminium can compacting.
And The Good Egg Award Mission - "Cooking with Brian". Come to the Omelette Bar and sample a new style of service using Free Range "Happy Eggs"
Feb 09 - Switch Off Thursday
Parts of Campus and parts of buildings will do with reduced lighting to see what difference it makes in experience. Do we really need all those lights in all those corridors all the time? Spot the difference! Students/staff can arrange for a GCU Energy Ambassador to visit their home to advise on how to save energy. Stall all day on level 1 of the Students' Association.
Also, launch of the new sandwich range with tasting sessions across campus
Feb 10 - Low Carbon Friday
Farmers Market in the refectory extension with a range of seasonal products from a local Farm Shop. Less transport, less carbon. Here you can also get your "Low Carbon Soup Pack": A bag of locally sourced ingredients to make soup at home.
"Cooking with Brian" - Taste the new Encore range of "carry out" International meals range to take home during the international tasting event at Café Roots on 2pm.
And last but not least, don't forget to keep in touch with our local environmental hero EcoMan. Check out his facebook page! (will open in a new tab/window)
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