Swell 4

June 2014
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W
elcome to the fourth edition of Swell,
the Sustainability Teams termly
newsletter about Sustainability and
associated wellbeing in the university!
This edition features the long anticipated Blackout results,
wellbeing updates and a whole lot more. Enjoy your read
and feel free to contact us at sustainability@swansea.ac.uk
or drop by our office at the ground floor of the Digital
Technium in room 6.

Another Green Impact cycle has ended
and 25 teams the highest number
of teams in Waleshave successfully
completed 2 Working towards Bronze, 15
Bronze, 4 Silver and 4 Gold Awards. On
May 13
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we celebrated all their achievements
and effort to make our university a more
sustainable place.

From donating for charity collections to organising
a free screening of Chasing Ice, taking on a cycling
challenge or arranging a Geo Trail tour on campus,
growing herbs for catering and increasing
biodiversity on campusour teams, student auditors and project
assistants have done a great job!

Swansea University boasted the highest number of staff and student engagement amongst all Welsh universities
participating in the NUS Live Greener Scheme. As the winner of the scheme Swansea University was invited to
present at the Hay Festival, where the Sustainability Team hosted a memorable sustainability workshop!

Swansea University
is the winner of this
years NUS Live
Greener Scheme!
www.swan.ac.uk/sustainability/
Its Spring
This time Iolo is filming a series about parks and wildlife for BBC
Wales. Iolo and his team at Aden Productions have visited our
beautiful campus. They are looking for people who regularly
spot wildlife on campus or in Singleton Park and have an
interest in learning more about wildlife. If you have any leads or
questions for Iolo and his crew then shoot an email to Emma
Walker at Aden Productions: emma.ford@aden.co.

I IOLO OLO W WILLAMS ILLAMS IS IS BACK BACK! !
B BEES EES TAKING TAKING OFF OFF! !
Its exciting to see the little pollinators go about
their busy work these days. With four buzzing hives
and more on-campus beekeepers coming out of
the woods the bee project is really starting to come
alive! Please contact the Sustainability Team if you
would like to get involved with the project!
Thanks to the help of many eager staff hands we have
expanded the Polytunnel allotments. Now over 40 staff
can grow their own food, compost food waste and soon
also collect rainwater. The Polytunnel Oasis has
become a wonderful space for fostering staff wellbeing
and for building a little gardening community!
P POLYTUNNEL OLYTUNNEL O OASIS ASIS IS IS G GROWING ROWING! !

Do you know your buildings
Energy Performance on Campus?
This years Energy Performance Certifcates
are going to be out soon in English and Welsh.
The EPCs inform users of the energy performance
and data for the last three years.
Check out the new placards in your building!

Blackout

Equivalent to 1.6
Average UK Household
Carbon Footprint
(20 Tons of Carbon)
On March 21st Swansea University
partook in Wales frst Blackout event.
The HEFWC sponsored event included
six Welsh universities including
Swansea, Cardif, Cardif Met, Bangor,
Aberystwyth and Trinity St. David.
In Swansea over 35 volunteers helped
to switch of ten buildingsthe biggest
Blackout amongst all the universities.
SPECIAL THANKS to everybody who
gave their efort and time to switch of
non-essential lights, computers and
monitors.
The Blackout saved the university
about 1,219 kWh and 600 kgCO2e
over that one weekend. Over a year
the university could save approx. 31
tonnes of Carbon, if the same
buildings were switched of every
weekend.
These numbers refect meter readings
available for seven of the ten blacked
out buildings. While this covers a third
of non-residential buildings on campus
these buildings only make up 7% of
total energy consumption on campus.
That means we can SAVE WAY MORE
if staf and students across campus
remembered to switch appliances of
where ever possible! Individual action
may seem insignifcant but when we all
do it - IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
Savings of 7
campus buildings
for one weekend
1,219 kWh
600 kgCO
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Catching up

EMS
Audits
are now in
progress from
May to July

Swansea 2014 has released around 15,000 tckets for the biggest
para-sport event ever to be held in Wales. The Sustainability Team
has put in a lot of work
to make this a sustainable
event by working towards
ISO20121 management standard.
The 5-day Championship will take
place at the Swansea University Internatonal
Sports Village between 18
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-23
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August. Tickets are
available both online at www.swansea2014.com and
from local outlets.

Priced at between 3.00-7.00 per session, people
from the city and athletcs fans
across the country can
secure their place to witness this highlight of the 2014 sportng calendar
up close. Tickets are available for both morning and afernoon
sessions. Swansea 2014 will see around 600 of Europes best
athletes compete for honours as they make their way to the
Rio Paralympic Games in 2016.

Featuring a wealth of Paralympians, World
Champions and record holders from over 40
natons, organisers hope to make this the greatest
European championships to date. Get your tcket
now and be part of this one tme sportng
event!
Work well
Wayne Bridge, Grounds Team
Live Well, Work Well

The Welsh Government has funded a third sector
partnership, led by Sustrans, including the Britsh Heart
Foundaton, Mind and ASH Wales targetng four diferent
universites including Swansea University.

Drawing on and adding value to a range of strategic drivers and
initatves in existence within Wales the Healthy Universites project
aims to improve staf health and wellbeing.
The project will recruit Live Well leaders, to become advocates;
promotng positve health and wellbeing to their colleagues, and
working alongside the project ofcer to set up and run interactve
health promoton events across the University.
The overall goal is to create an organisatonal culture
that promotes health and wellbeing through
a healthy setng.

Do you know someone in your department or the university
who walks the talk and champions sustainability in their daily presence at work?
Let us know! Just send a picture and a brief note about your personal work-place hero.
Highlight their positve attude and thank them for their contributons to the university!
Nominate your own
Sustainability Champion
Sustainability Champion of Spring 2014

Healthy Universities Project
Need to get rid of old
computers this summer?
and give them to the UK-Based charity IT
Schools Africa, which will refurbish them and
distribute them to schools. If you have
any spare equipment you
would like to donate
then get in touch
with the
Sustainability
Team.

THANK YOU
for your treless
efort to monitor
and improve
recycling habits on
campus!
We will take them...
BUY A KEEPCUP
AND GET YOUR
FIRST AND
EVERY TENTH
COFFEE OR TEA
FOR FREE.
AVAILABLE AT
EVERY CAMPUS
CATERING
OUTLET.
KEEPCUPS ARE HERE
The wait is over
get your TICKET
NUS are working with universities across
Wales to conduct a short and confidential
survey with staff and students to find out
about their lifestyles to enable them, and our
university to plan for and provide improved
services for staff and students. Your thoughts
and opinions are very important. Thank you
for taking part in this survey!
NUS needs your input