Media Social Media Presence Our society runs a comprehensive Facebook page has increased by social media campaign over various over 100 likes with some posts platforms. We use Facebook, reaching nearly 10,000 people! Our Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and Instagram account now has over we also regularly post on the UL 150 followers and the UL Green Green Campus blog. Facebook is Campus blog is visited by staff and our main output for social media students every day. We also have it is the platform with the biggest a website which contains useful audience, with a following of over downloadable information. 500 people! In the past year our Facebook Green Campus Blog
Fundraising Bake Sale OnFebruary14th,theULEnvironmental Society held a bake sale to raise funds for some planned semester events. Various, delicious treats were prepared by our very talented society members! Strategically located in the Student courtyard, this sale was hugely successful with almost all items being sold and raised a considerable €118.70 for the society.
Fundraising music, and the environment. With five teams taking part, this Pub Quiz Night event raised €100 for the society. On April 1st, a Monday night, the society had a successful and fun pub quiz night at Scholars. There was 10 rounds with 7 questions each about different topics such as sport,
Social Clubs&Socities Ball UL’s annual clubs and societies ball took place in the Strand Hotel in Limerick on Thursday March 14th. The hotel broached a savvy atmosphere, with students and staff dressed to impress in what is one of the biggest events on the student calendar.
Social Society Meal Out Society Nights Out! As well as putting in a lot of hard work throughout the year to make sure our projects are successful and effective, we make sure to have fun with our society as we know how easy it is to get lost in your work so we frequently organize nights out whether its in Scholars, Stables or a few drinks in someones house, we here at ULES know how to have fun as well as work hard! Christmas Night Out! Bowling!
Awards Car Pooling Via Faxi Ready Set Go! Smarter Travel Student Awards Members from our society submitted two separate videos into the media award prize category, one advertising carpooling, and the other comparing driving and walking. You can view each of these submissions by scanning the following QR codes!:
This year the Smarter Travel our ‘UL Carbon Campaign’ and Student Awards offered further categories than in also our ‘Light up your life year previous before meaning some events that we ran were Campaign’ to the Health & Event applicable to submit to the awards. The society submitted Management category. These two campaigns made it into shortlist of 3 for the category. Light up Your Life Campaign The UL Environmental Society in collaboration with the UL Smarter Travel team, UL Student Lift team and the National Transport Authority man a number of our main entrances across campus as part of the semesterly Smarter Travel Campus Light Up Your Life Campaign. 200+ free LED lights are given to passing cyclists over the course of many evenings, with the aim of promoting road safety and encour- aging cycling through the winter months. Light Up Your Life Submission Board
The UL Carbon 1st Place Campaign won first place in its category! National Award
Society members at the national awards ceremony (L-R) Christopher Asmus, Kate McMahon and Luke O’Driscoll
ABwICaSrdAswards We also submitted our ‘UL Green Guides’ for the best publicity Our society was shortlisted to campaign, which was chosen as represent UL in two categories at the Best Publicity Campaign from the national BICS Awards 2019, UL, which meant that we would Athlone. The BICS Awards recognise also represent UL in this category the best clubs & societies around at the awards. Ireland in various categories. Our society ended up winning our The society initially submitted the very first BICS “Green Initiative following six campaigns for the BICS Award” for our Plastic Bottle “Green Initiative Award” category: Collector campaign ! • UL Plastic Bottle Collector • UL Birdhouse Builds • Green is the New Black • UL Green Guide • Water Bottle Pyramid • UL Carbon Campaign The Plastic Bottle Collector project was shortlisted though to the final three in that category.
1st Place National Award UL Environmental Socities’ Lena Stolz, Christopher Asmus, Melonie Kotschwar being awarded by Dara Dever of An Taisce
Awards bronze award, 40 for a silver and 60 for a gold. Time with our society President’s counts towards the PVA so last Volunteer Awards year we had four members who became PVA recipients, including The President’s Volunteer a gold for our previous society Award (PVA) acknowledges president, Kathrin Mobius! and supports the contribution that students at the University of Limerick make to their communities. 20 hours of community work achieves a
Awards President’s Staff Excellence Awards 2019 As a token of our appreciation for all the hard work he has contributed to help our society over the past number of years, our committee secretly submitted a nomination for our very own member, Sean Collins, for the “President’s Staff Excellence Awards 2019” based on all he has done to help our society. These awards recognise excellent work undertaken by staff across the University. And guess what! He won in the ‘Contribution to the Campus Community’ category!
What Next?.. Culture Change Project The UL Green Campus committee was awarded a HEAI sustainability grant in August 2018 for Education in Sustainability, and in turn some of the monies from this grant was offered by the committee to our society to develop a major project if one could be suggested. Over the course of two semesters, we started gathering thoughts and ideas during our weekly society meetings, with everyone sharing various thoughts and ideas. One member of the society made the point that while UL is in fact ranked one of the Greenest and most sustainable campuses in the world, that not many people know this, or become
aware of this as they pass through the campus. This observation led to the discussion that if we encouraged sustainability in various aspects of the campus perhaps we could not only advertise how green the university is, but how sustainability is the norm, in turn encouraging students and staff to live more sustainable lives themselves. After developing this idea with the society over another few meetings an outline plan was agreed: -An internal totem which would be displayed in prominent locations around the corridors and open spaces of buildings on campus, which would let students interact with it and advertise environmental related messages etc.
-Outdoor Signage: which would be 25th Greenest displayed on the most prominent University In building facades/glass panels. The message displayed would be The World clear, powerful, interchangeable and could be seen day and night. Irelands best and greenest library -Green Sustainable Wolfie (our UL mascot): which could help achieve the image of sustainability, heighten the societys messages and events, and also promote any other sustainable/environmental related topics. -Urban Coop: Which would essentially sell groceries that would be less harmful to you and the environment.
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