Green Impact, our staff sustainability engagement program is open for 2020! Get involved with actions while working from home Creative ideas for getting started with Green Impact while working from home!
8. Are you interested in better understanding your workplace’s carbon footprint? Contact the Sustainability Team (sustainability.utas@ utas.edu.au) to calculate your budget centre’s total carbon footprint for business flights for the previous calendar year and learn how these were offset (action S027). 9. Connect with the suppliers you most frequently use and find out about ways to reduce the amount of single-use packaging supplied with their products (action S033). 10. Take a moment to consider the clothing your workplace buys, connect with your suppliers to ensure that all clothing is ethically and responsibly sourced under ISO 20400 Sustainable Procurement guidelines (action G023).
1. Did you know, staff at the University are eligible for free membership of Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS)? Connect with other universities and learn about initiatives through signing up for the monthly ebulletin enACT (action B002). 2. Add sustainability to your regular staff meeting agenda or invite staff and students to a sustainability focused meeting. Invite all to provide feedback and contribute ideas for improving the sustainability of your workplace. The Sustainability Team can join and assist in facilitating this meeting (action B003). 3. What interesting flora or fauna live around your workplace? Learn more about our environments on campus and share insights with your colleagues about a unique, rare or threatened species (action B005). 4. Do you have living plants in your work area? Why not take a leaf out of Gary’s book and share a cutting with a colleague (action B015). 5. How are you looking after your wellbeing while working from home? Create a positive physical or mental health initiative with colleagues and share your progress (action B016). 6. Reflect on your successes, now could be the time to submit an article for the staff intranet about how your College or Division is reducing their environmental impacts (action S001). 7. Acknowledge the work we still need to do for inclusivity and diversity, ensure a member of your team is part of the University’s Ally Network (action S020).
Green Impact is a behaviour change and engagement program where individuals work in teams to undertake a diverse range of sustainability actions. Through the program you can learn about sustainability and social responsibility and celebrate the changes you are making. In 2019, 15 teams working across Sandy Bay, Newnham, Inveresk and Cradle Coast Campuses took part in the program, completing more than 230 actions.
What’s new in 2020? Due to the popularity of our Green
Impact student day last year, this year we have expanded the program to create opportunities for students to work with Green Impact teams throughout the year. Actions within the toolkit have been mapped to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the toolkit has been adapted to enable you to participate while working from home.
Growing green walls in the Rural Clinical School in Burnie, this plant is not only brightening this workplace, Gary has also grown cuttings and shared these with colleagues.
Do you have any creative ideas? If you have an idea or activity not covered in the toolkit you can submit this as a ‘Wild Card’ action or nominate an individual or team for a ‘Special Award’. Head to Green Impact to register or contact sustainability.utas@utas.edu.au with any questions about the program.
First meeting for the Cradle Coast Campus’s sustainability working group, led by Pro Vice Chancellor Jim Cavaye, attended by Sustainability Committee Chair Professor Margaret Otlowski and 29 staff and students.
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Sustainability Bulletin • Issue 13 April 2020
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