Green Impact Students' Unions Resource Bank
Below, you will find a selection of resources and templates that will help your Students’ Union or Students’ Association complete the GISU toolkit and take leadership on sustainability. Please email gisu@sos-uk.org if you have any successes or great initiatives you’d be happy to share, or request for other resources.
General Support and Guidance for GISU
- Toolkit User Guide
- FAQs – includes scoring thresholds, key dates and info on scoring your criteria (2024-25)
Guidelines and Templates
- Case Study template 2024-25 – word document download (OC003)
- Sustainability in job descriptions (2024-25)
- Including sustainability when inducting new starters (2024-25)
- Sustainable Events Checklist (2024-25)
- Biodiversity Audit template (2024-25)
- Lighting Audit template (2024-25)
- Student Reps (Course/Department Reps) Training Guidance (2024-25)
- Course Reps training presentation (2024-25)
- Outcomes spreadsheet with examples (2024-25)
- 2019/20 SU GHG emissions Calculator (EAUC Scotland)
- SMART action plan template
- Energy audit template
- Sustainability Skills Survey – Email template
Case Studies
- Bucks SU: ‘Bucks New Usage’ – Collection and reuse scheme, 2019-20
- Sustainable fashion at The SU at UWE, 2022-23
Webinars
- Upcoming 2024-25 live webinars are listed here for registration
- Education for Sustainable Development: Education as a force for good (2023-24)
- Decolonise! Demilitarise! Democratise! Decarbonise! (2023-24)
- Sustainable procurement at students’ unions (2022-23)
- Fossil Free Careers (People & Planet, 2022-23)
- Decolonising for Change and Climate Justice (2022-23)
- Playlist of webinars on energy efficiency in the private rented sector (2021-23)
- Carbon Targets (2020-21)
- Student-led growing projects (2020-21)
- Hedgehog Friendly Campus (2020)
- Course Reps, Sustainability, Decolonisation and Curriculum Change (2020)
- Decolonising the University (SOS-UK, NUS and People & Planet, 2020)
- Declaring a Climate Emergency (SOS-UK and NUS, 2020)
General Sustainability Support
- Student Leaders for Sustainability Guide (EAUCE Scotland)
- Getting started with the SDGs in Universities
- People & Planet Fossil Free Action Guide
- Online Climate ‘Skill-Ups’ (350.org)
- SOS-UK Sustainability and Intersectionality Resource Bank
- Podcast: Liberating Sustainability (commissioned by SOS-UK)
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