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Green Impact. Jess Cordy Sustainable Development Placement Charlotte Taylor Green Impact Project Officer. Project Cycle. Teams implement changes October-February. * Workbook amends and initial audits August-October. Workbook launch and team recruitment September-October. Celebration
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Green Impact Jess Cordy Sustainable Development Placement Charlotte Taylor Green Impact Project Officer
Project Cycle Teams implement changes October-February * Workbook amends and initial audits August-October Workbook launch and team recruitment September-October Celebration April-May Workbook Submission and Audits March Evaluation June-August
Workbook! www.greenimpact.org.uk/leeds
Green Impact Criteria categories • Biodiversity and the Community • Greening Teams, Action Plans and Communications • Electricity/Energy • Heating • Procurement • Travel • Waste- Recycling, Reusing, Reducing • Water
Getting started with Bronze and Silver Challenge: What are the ‘quick wins’ with maximum impact? How would you implement these?
B017: Department has identified, ranked and documented what it believes are its five most significant environmental impacts, and identified steps to reduce these.
Your environmental impacts • Surroundings in which an organisation operates • Includes air, water, land, national resources, flora, fauna, humans and their interrelation • Surroundings in this context extend from within an organisation to the global system
Impacts and aspects Environmental Aspect • any element of an organisation’s activities, products or services, that can interact with the environment. Environmental impact • any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organisations activities, products or services
Example: Impacts and aspects Impact: contributes to global warming Aspect: Use of printer Impact: use of fossil fuels: burden on earths resources Activity: Printing agendas for meetings Aspect: Use of paper Impact: Deforestation
Exercise Identifying your own environmental aspects and impacts. • Brainstorm your activities • What environmental aspects are associated with these? • What are the environmental impacts of this? • Identify the significance of each impact: • Intensity • Likelihood
GENERAL CONSIDERATION • Direct or indirect • Real or perceived • Occur under normal operating conditions • Occur under abnormal operating conditions • Due to accident • Due to incident (eg vandalism) • Due to past (or future) activities
How can the lead environmental contacts support the Green Impact teams? • Support team leaders to find teams • University-wide communications • Link between departments • Secure line manager’s approval- with your help • Launch events, workshops, extravagant awards ceremony… Jess Cordy: j.cordy@leeds.ac.uk
How can the Green Impact Project Officer support Green Impact teams? • Support the Lead Environmental Contact support you • Provide you with national statistics/ communications • Help finalise the workbook • Provide detailed feedback for University and individual teams • Lead workshops and provide support whenever you ask it • Charlotte Taylor: charlotte.taylor@nus.org.uk
Contact details Your Green Impact Project Officer: Charlotte Taylor charlotte.taylor@nus.org.uk 07817 010 044 Green Impact Project Manager: Jo Kemp Jo.kemp@nus.org.uk 07818 592813