OUSU Environment and Ethics Committee

The OUSU Environment and Ethics Committee is one of the most active and popular campaigning groups in Oxford.  We meet every Tuesday at 5.30pm in the OUSU offices to work on college, university, Oxford and nationwide campaigns.  Our webspace here will soon be fully functional, but in the meantime you can visit our outgoing site at http://ousuenvironmentcommittee.googlepages.com. This website provides our resources such as sample motions, facts, and links. The campaign details for everything we do are here.

News: 

25/02/08

The stall went off without a hitch, and we collected about 200 signatures for the petition. The social is scheduled for Tuesday, 6pm at Pizza Express.

16/02/08

Half our materials for our stall were locked away in the OUSU building, so we've postponed the stall until Sunday 24/02/08. Mikki kindly volunteered to be our secretary last week and was duly elected. Our plastic bag sculpture took the form of... a very big plastic bag. No it hasn't attracted any strange looks or comments...

13/02/08

Our plastic bag/excess packaging campaign has taken off, and we're on the way to getting stalls set up for saturday of 5th week in the city. Congrats to Mikki, our new secretary and Julia our new Recycling officer.

07/11/07

Elections for Biodivesrity, Energy, Ethics and Recycling officers went off with out a hich. Congrats to our four new officers are Mikki, Catherine, Sarah and Lily. Thanks to Hector Alex and James, you guys did a great job!

06/11/07

The OUSU Environment and Ethics officer and VP - Charities and Community are up for election on Thursday of 6th week. The new E&E officer will come into office in Hillary but the new VP won't until next year.

The Committee:

Chair: Ian Bhullar, PPE, Keble College 2nd year.
Secretary: Mikki Haig, Biology, Worcester College  2nd year.
Press and Publications: Daniel Lowe, Law, St. Edmund Hall 2nd year
Biodiversity:Mikki Haig, Biology, Worcester College  2nd year..
Energy: Cat Garsed, German & Czech, St Hilda's College 2nd year.
Ethics: Sarah Lawrence, Medicine, Corpus Christi College 1st year.

Recycling: Julia Koskella, Human Sciences, Somerville College 1st year

OUSU Environment and Ethics Officer: Daniel Lowe, Law, St. Edmund Hall 2nd year.
OUSU VP- Charities and Community: Claire Addisson (former) English Language and Literature, Pembroke College.

Previous officers:

Co chairs: Sam Baars, Niel Bowerman, Hector Guinness, Virinda Manglik, Richard Ollerhead.

Secretary: Amy Tatton-Brown

Biodiversity: Hector Guinness

Energy: Alex Hill

Ethics: James Miller

Recycling: Lily Soucy

Campaigns:

Biodiversity:

This term we're continuing to focus on getting colleges to stop serving unsustainably caught fish in hall. The motivation behind this is that most of the fish served in Britain is either from depleted stocks or endangered species. Watch out for Tuna (all species are endangered), North Atlantic cod and scampi in particular.

Energy:

Taking inspiration from the Carbon Trust, we're bringing their 'Switch it Off' campaign to Oxford. We've secured sponsorship for over 2000 beermats to be made carrying eco-friendly encouragement. Coming soon to a college bar near you.

Ethics:

This term we're bringing a motion to OUSU council to support a ban on the testing of household products on animals. These tests are unnecessary, as a plethora of ingredients have been regarded as safe by the government. Furthermore, health and safety laws don't require animal testing. The motion comes to council at 2pm on friday of fifth week. See the OUSU home page for the venue.

Recycling:

In the wonderful world of recycling we continue our uphill struggle to expand all recycling programs (now including compost, well its sort of recycling isn't it?) We've been in a lot of contact with Lili Briggs, the university sustainability officer and we've come up with lots of nifty ideas like having a box for plastic bags in the porters lodge to help share out used ones. Also, we have been contacted by Elizabeth Von Hoff, who works for the recycling dept. of Oxford City Council. Together we hope to compile a map f college recycling facilities.

Coming Soon:

JCR Campaign Resources, Sample Motions.