Green Impact Students' Unions Resource Bank
Below, you will find a selection of resources and templates that will help your Students’ Union complete the GISU toolkit and make your Students’ Union a leader in sustainability. This page is updated regularly with examples from participating Students’ Unions – email gisu@sos-uk.org if you have any successes or great initiatives you’d be happy to share!
Students’ Unions who are just starting out always find examples of best practice useful. To help us build up a selection of these resources to share, we’d love it if you could complete a quick a case study using this template and email it to us at gisu@sos-uk.org.
General Support and Guidance for GISU
- Toolkit User Guide (2023)
- FAQs – includes scoring thresholds, key dates and info on scoring your criteria (2023-24)
- Historical GISU rolling criteria (2017-2023)
Guidelines and Templates
- Sustainability in job descriptions (2023-24)
- Including sustainability when inducting new starters (2023-24)
- Sustainable Events Checklist (2023-24)
- GISU Outcomes section template (2023-24)
- Biodiversity Audit template (2023-24)
- Lighting Audit template (2023-24)
- Student Reps (Course/Department Reps) Training Guidance (2023-24)
- 2019/20 SU GHG emissions Calculator (EAUC Scotland)
- Course reps training presentation
- 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
- Sustainable procurement at students’ unions (GISU 2022-23)
- Fossil Free Careers (People & Planet, GISU 2022-23)
- Decolonising for Change and Climate Justice (GISU 2022-23)
- Playlist of webinars on energy efficiency in the private rented sector (SOS-UK, 2021-23)
- Carbon Targets (GISU 2020-21)
- Student-led growing projects (GISU 2020-21)
- Hedgehog Friendly Campus (Aug 2020)
- Course Reps, Sustainability, Decolonisation and Curriculum Change (Aug 2020)
- Decolonising the University (SOS-UK, NUS and People & Planet, Feb 2020)
- Declaring a Climate Emergency (SOS-UK and NUS, 2020)
- Video: Student Switch Off advice for private renters (2019)
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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