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Green Impact 2011 Update. Laura Williams & Robert Croll. Green your department, have fun & win prizes. Contents. Green Impact Context Targets for MMU Our Approach Achievements Additional Projects Future Steps - Points for Discussion. Green your department, have fun & win prizes.
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Green Impact 2011 Update Laura Williams & Robert Croll Green your department, have fun & win prizes
Contents Green Impact Context Targets for MMU Our Approach Achievements Additional Projects Future Steps - Points for Discussion Green your department, have fun & win prizes
Green Impact Context • Green Impact is now in its fourth year. • 2010-2011 nominated for the Green Awards’ Green Employee Engagement Award. • 46 institutions taking part taking part in Green Impact Universities and Colleges. Green your department, have fun & win prizes
Targets for MMU 1. Encourage pro-environmental behaviour change across the institution and wider community within the specified time period. 2. Increase number of students and staff with pro-environmental knowledge and awareness with at least 50 teams taking part. 3. Provide quantitative and qualitative data relating to the scheme to the EAUC. 4. Develop and drive forward wider environmental projects across the university. Green your department, have fun & win prizes
Our Approach • Message: Let’s make a Sustainable Planet - • Green your Department, Have Fun & Win Prizes • Tactics: • Bottom Up – Pedal powered smoothie • maker, TV Screens, Screen Savers, • Website, Phone-calls, One-to- • One/Departmental Meetings & • Stalls, Student Support. • Top Down - Acting as Proponents, Vox • Pops, Emails & Active Team Involvement, • Time-Incentivising Discussion Green your department, have fun & win prizes
Achievements • Largest no. Green Impact Teams for 2011-2012 in the UK! • 66 Teams signed up at MMU of the 800 teams in the country • 13 departments part of the Labs pilot • All Directorate members and Deans involved • 412 staff involved in a Green Impact Team • Cumulative total of 2137 members of staff • MMU you is only educational institution in UK to be working with their Local Authority Green your department, have fun & win prizes
Positive Impacts • Positive, popular & holistic behaviour change program embedded in MMU’s staff culture • Impact across all of MMU’s campuses - All Saints (44), Cheshire (8), Didsbury (4) Hollings (3) Elizabeth Gaskell (3) All Campuses (2) Aytoun (2) • Greater publicity and engagement with LMSP • Staff feel connected with MMU’s management • Gaining publicity locally, regionally and nationally Green your department, have fun & win prizes
Additional Projects • MMU Environment Mascot • & Animation • Creative Concern • MMU Documentary • Arts School & Volunteers • Arts Exhibition • Business School Student Projects Green your department, have fun & win prizes
Future Steps - Points for Discussion • Venue for awards ceremony (April 2012) ? • Direction for Documentary-film and anima film? • Ideas for the LMSP mascot? • Future of Behaviour Change at MMU? • Anyone wish to sign up as a department who hasn't yet already? Green your department, have fun & win prizes
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