Beau Damen LAC Project June 2012 My objective To educate the people in my office about the environmental impact of their workplace and other environmental issues and suggest practical ideas for more sustainable lifestyles ID: 223825
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Green Workplace for a Greener Life
Beau Damen
LAC Project – June 2012Slide2
My objective
To educate the people in
my
office about the environmental impact of their workplace and other environmental issues and suggest
practical ideas for more sustainable lifestyles…Slide3
Topic
Online Block
The issues I wanted to tackle
The issues I could tackle
Indoor air pollution
2 ES & SD
Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from different activities in the workplace
2 ES & SD
4 PTS
Sustainable
lifestyles by raising awareness of environmental issues
2 ES & SD
Consumption and pricing of energy and water
4 PTS
5 ECS
Food losses and waste
2 ES & SD
5 ECS
L
earnSlide4
What I wanted to do
An online survey of environmental attitudes at the workplace
Identification and matching of specific greening strategies to key concerns identified by office workers
Development of educational materials for the office including presentations, posters and maybe videos
Organizing a day/half-day social activity to promote a Greener culture at work
Post intervention survey to discern whether workplace attitudes to environmental issues have
changed
Form an ‘active’ office wide group to work on promoting a green culture of saving resources at work
What I could do
ApplySlide5
Challenges
Support
Scheduling
Data
Apathy
CommunicateSlide6
Challenge 1
In order to make something happen I needed to find support….
Management
Social Club
Save Food Campaign
Support
What work was involved?
82 e-mails (36 of which from me)
8 meetings
5 draft activity plans
8 rounds of survey draftsSlide7
Original Plan
1
st
week of May
Revision 2
7 June
Revision 3
Mid-June
Revision 1
21 May
Challenge 2
Scheduling
Beau’s last day at
work
14 June
April
May
JuneSlide8
Challenge 3
Data was not always easy to come across…...
DataSlide9
Challenge 3
Making it personalSlide10
Challenge 4
A perception that I was pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong about
Apathy
Eager volunteers
Helpful suggestions
Surprising donationsSlide11
Survey responses
Final survey had 3 sections
Food Losses and Waste
Environmental sustainability at the workplace
Learning more about environmental issues
Finally sent on 5 June – World Environment DaySlide12
Survey responses
Food losses and wasteSlide13
Survey responses
Environment
& the
workplaceSlide14
Survey responses
Learning more about environmental issuesSlide15
Future
Final Survey Report
10 June
Office
Flyers
Throughout June
Office
Intranet Posts
Early June
The initiative will continue
Office Save
Day
OctoberSlide16
Thank you