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Going for gold:
Green Impact at the
University of Oxford
Rachel Purdon, Estates Services
12 April 2016
What we will be covering…
• What is Environmental Sustainability?
• What does it mean to the University?
• How can Green Impact help?
• How can you get involved?
WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY?
What is Environmental Sustainability?
Energy and carbon
management
Emissions and discharge
Water
Waste and materials
Sustainable travel
Education, research and knowledge
transfer
Biodiversity
Sustainable buildings
Sustainable purchasing
£
Community
WHAT IS GREEN IMPACT?
Green Impact: a national project
• Next year will be the University of Oxford’s fourth year
participating in the programme
• Staff teams work at their own pace towards Bronze, Silver
or Gold Awards
• Online workbook breaks down complexity of sustainability
into achievable practical actions
Green Impact: varied criteria
Small actions across the University have
a large impact
Each staff member
covered by a Green
Impact team
1 light off for 15
minutes
3 average Oxford homes
43 teams
signed up to
participate
this year
Over 200
staff have
been part of a
Green Impact
Team
Over 5,000
staff
engaged so
far
Over 2,000
actions
completed as a
result of Green
Impact so far…
What we’ve achieved together so far
• Staff
• Meet others from your own department and from
across the University
• Make positive changes to your work space
• Have fun and try something different
• Department
• Reduce utility bills and impacts
• Departmental publicity and PR
• Bringing people together
• University
• Reduce environmental impact
• Meet targets and objectives
• Support student training and experience
• Create beneficial networks across the University
Benefits of signing up
Ideas…
What are the timings?
Across the University:
• Teams of all sizes …
1-25
• Staff of many
varieties
• Teams from brand
new to well
established
Determine the scope of your Green Impact team:
people/staff and area
Hold an open Green Impact meeting or add it to an
existing meeting agenda
Establish what communication methods you have
available to distribute information
Determine how you could expand your team and/or
engagement?
Establish a list of your top positive environmental
impacts … and your top five negative impacts
Getting started…
Support and recognition
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5L7ZjLy6pw
Thank you for listening
QUESTIONS?
fb.com/OxfordEnvSust @OxfordEnvSust
Teams so far… Academic Services and University Collections • Abingdon library team • Ashmolean Museum • Bod. Social Science Library • Botanic Gardens • Clarendon building • Harcourt Arboretum • Language Centre • Osney One • Radcliffe Science Library • Swindon library team
Colleges • Christ Church College • Kellogg College • Lady Margaret Hall • St Anne's College • Wolfson College
Medical Sciences • Modernising medical
microbiology • NDM Experimental Medicine
Humanities • Classics • LPP Green Team
MPLS • Department of Statistics • Earth Sciences • Earth Sciences (Labs) • Materials • Materials (Labs ) • Mathematical Institute • MPLS Divisional Office
(9 Parks Road) • Oxford Chemistry • Oxford Chemistry (Labs) • ORCRB / Green Building • Pathology • Plant Sciences • Plant Sciences (Labs)
Social Sciences • Area Studies • Blavatnik School of
Government • Geography • SBS - Executive Open
programmes
UAS • Estates Services - Parks • Estates Services - Wytham
Woods • Development Office • Estates Services - Malthouse • Exam Schools (FM) • Finance Division • Manor Road Building • Sheldonian Theatre
Other • Continuing Education • ISIS Innovation • Oxford University Press
