STAFF and students at Pershore Group of Colleges have their green fingers crossed after it was shortlisted for a prestigious environmental award.
The college is up for a Green Gown Award, organised by the Higher Education Enironmental Performance Improvement project, which is funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
The awards were established to raise awareness of the growing pressures for better environmental performance at colleges.
Pershore has been shortlisted in the colleges colleges category for its infusion of sustainable development and organic principles into all aspects of its activities at both its Pershore and Holme Lacy campuses.
This includes the curriculum, the estates and the farm, nursery and fruit unit.
Principal Dr Heather Barrett-Mold said: "This college has, for a number of years, been integrating the principles of sustainable development through everything it does, from teaching students to composting, to catching water off the roofs to irrigate the nursery, to using biodiesel, to local sales of organic food."
The final results will be announced in April 2007.
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