Green Agency.


The Green Agency of the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences is a information center for the study and elaboration of environmental initiatives in the province of León. It is an office where students of the University of León, under the professors' tutorship, analyze plans and projects affecting the environment (EIA, town plannings, resource administration plans, …) so that, while they put into practice what they have learned in their theoretical formation, they contribute whith their ideas towards a better result of them. The Green Agency has an equipped office in the Environment Research Institute to help students in this work.

The Bazar, in collaboration with the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, includes all those activities that can be developed in the Green Agency as “Bazar Projects” The projects appearing in green belong together with those initiatives of the Green Agency.

One of the main objectives of the Green Agency is that, starting from the initiative of the student, to intend and to develop research and environmental improvement projects in the surroundings of the University of León. The financing comes from the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences.

These projects will suppose a very valuable practical experience for students who want to be formed in activities related to environment and an active contribution from the University community to the protection of the environment.

As every activity managed through the Bazar, any collaboration will have an official certificate of realized tasks (according to their nature will be signed by the professor-tutor and/or the University authority). Additionally, as in every activity negotiated by the Bazar, one will be able to request the personnel of the Bazar to negotiate with professors the possibility that the activity counts as practices for a subject.

The developed objectives of the Green Agency are:

1. To take part in all the public processes of Environmental Impact Assessment in activities developed in León that are considered of interest, both because of their foreseeable affection in the natural patrimony (dams, changes in the uses of the soil, opencasts, wind power parks, road and industrial infrastructures...) or because of the methodological interest and for the practical learning
   that involves for the students the realization of specific reports.
   
2. To participate in the allegations related to relevant National or Autonomic Plans and Programs, such as the National Hydrological Plan, Forest Plans, Strategy of Transport and Communication, Regional Plans of Land Management, etc.
   
3. To take part in the local positions of sustainable development contemplated in Agenda 21.
   
4. To achieve in the Campus a university functioning according to the environmental ethics, regarding infrastructures, equipment and operation methods, favoring ways of energy saving and recycling.