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Green Committee

The Green Committee is made up from enthusiastic students and staff across all three schools. It is a discussion group for green planning and initiatives. It makes recommendations, publishes advice to students and staff and raises green awareness generally.

The students chair the meetings, prepare agendas and publish minutes. The key staff on this Committee include the Bursar, the Facilities Manager, the IT Manager and Cheryl Osborne (Teacher of Biology) who is in charge of the sister group, Greenaid, which deals with day to day greening work such as paper recycling. Examples of our current discussions range from ensuring greenness in the upcoming refurbishment of the boarding houses to the possibility of installing motion sensors on lights in the lavatories. From time to time an account of the activities of the Green Committee is published and there are plans to 'blog' selected, annotated minutes of meetings.

Suggestions from the Committee on how to be a green learner:

• Think carefully before printing anything from the computer
• Practise reading and drafting on computer to avoid printing drafts of work
• Consider handing in your work electronically
• Think before you take another piece of new paper - best to reduce your use or reuse paper
• Try and print on both sides of paper
• Take care of files and texts to avoid having to replace them too often and perhaps to enable their reuse when you are finished with them
• Realise that an ability to afford the cost of a resource does not afford the right to use it wastefully
• Remind your colleagues and teachers of being green
• Remember that recycling paper is only a good thing to do if the paper has not been fully used/reused
• Avoid printing multiple copies – use a photocopier
• Don't waste resources in the name of neatness – if you make a mistake, cross it out and carry on rather than start afresh on new paper
• Don't print colour images for frivolous reasons

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