LiFE – Approaches, insights and

reflections

What is LiFE?

• Comprehensive structure and common language

for managing social and environmental

sustainability

• A methodology for collaborative analysis, decision-

making and reporting

• Goal is integration and normalisation of

sustainability practice across all aspects

• Adopted by more than 70 institutions internationally

Leadership & Governance

PRIORITY AREAS

Partnership & Engagement Learning, Teaching & Research Facilities & Operations

16 FRAMEWORKS

Human Capital

ACTIVITY AREAS

Leadership

Sustainable ICT

Learning and Teaching

Student Engagement

Biodiversity

Water

Resource Efficiency

and Waste

Sustainable Construction

and Renovation

Research

Transport

Energy

Staff Engagement

Procurement and

Supplier Engagement

Policy and Strategy Action PlanningStakeholder

Engagement Communication

Training & Support Links to Curriculum Implementation Measurement

Community Engagement

Business & Industry Interface

Establish

baseline

Develop

improvement

Action Plan

Identify

responsibilities /

Divisional champions

Integrate Action

Plan into other

business plans

Re-evaluate

Implement

LiFE Typical Implementation path

Reporting to Senior

Management

JCU Perspective

CSU Perspective

Key points

• Communication of LiFE and selling the prospect of

participation to key stakeholders

• Approaches to baselining and action planning

workshops

• Results of evaluation completed by participants

• Maintaining momentum and establishing structured

methods for encouraging others to get stuff done!

Stakeholder analysis

Stakeholder analysis

Communicating LiFE

Feedback

• Personal behaviour

• “Brand CSU Green in SRC events more;

• Continue to push integration of sustainability KPIs in

contracts etc. – already doing

• Ask harder questions during refurbishment and building

projects

• Initiate more sustainability effort & in day to day activity

• Potentially change my performance plan for 2015

• Try to be more proactive in this area all the way from

design & purchasing to waste removal

• Consider environmental aspects of my job as a standard

activity.”

Feedback

• Communication

• “Spread awareness of CSU Green to the student

cohort;

• Talk about LiFE;

• I will promote CSU Green and GLO sustainability

more

• We will communicate regularly on improvements in

fleet we will continue this process.

• Improve communication of our initiatives

• Further promote sustainability.”

Maintaining Momentum

Uni of Tasmania Perspective