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Green Impact

Planning Services have teamed up with Executive Suite to take part in an exciting University wide initiative, aimed at greening work practices, called Green Impact. Green Impact is a two year project, managed by the EAUC and delivered locally by the participating universities and Student’s Unions. Successfully piloted at the University of Bristol last year, Green Impact is running at 23 universities in 2009/10 and 2010/11

Cate Gleed was the lead on the project for Planning Services, along with Jess Harrington for the Executive Suite, and many positive steps towards a greener workplace and greener practices have been put into place.

Latest Progress and News

• Planning Services and the Executive Suite win SILVER accreditation! You can see us winning our prize here.
• On 12 May, Planning Services spent the day working with warden's on the local heritage Killerton estate, to clear pastures from scrubland into ground suitable for grazing cattle and ponies. In doing so, a particular species of flower would be encouraged to flourish (the dog violet) which in turn attracts an endangered species of butterfly to the region, the Pearl-Bordered Fritilary.
• The departments have put together a plan to ensure all equipment and lighting is switched off when not in use, or at the end of the day. Different members of the team are responsible for each room or piece of equipment.
• The University's new Waste and Recycling Assistant Paul O'Callaghan visited the departments on the 26 February and gave us the good news that many more items can be recycled in the Biffa paper recycling bins than we previously thought. This means that envelopes, catalogues, magazines and post-it notes, amongst other items, are now being recycled by the team rather than thrown away, which tackles one of our major negative environmental impacts (see below)
• There are options for recycling cans, plastic, paper, cardboard, polythene, even old stamps and mobile phones, all along our corridor. For further information or for a brief tour of recycling points, please contact Cate Gleed (c.m.gleed@ex.ac.uk or 01392 722203).
• We have now identified and ranked our top five negative Environmental Impacts, which you can view here. As you can see, we are already working hard to try and tackle these issues.
• We have also identified our ten main departmental greening opportunities, which can be viewed, along with their progress, here.
• Green Impact is aiming to have a wider impact that just greening departments. Six members of our team have now made their pledge to adopt greener behaviours at home. If you want to join them, please visit the NUS site to find out more and make your pledge: www.nus.org.uk/greenimpactpledge

Links

There is a wealth of useful information available on the University's sustainability pages, including information on the cycle training scheme, maps showing cycle routes and the all-important shower facilities around campus, and hints to help us all save energy and water, amongst many other things. Take a look!