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e-Bulletin 18

1. Menu of actions lets users tailor their effort
'My Green Office' interactive platform enables staff to track their progress against 'Core greening activities'.
2. Faltering Champions scheme put back on track
Review of Environmental Champions scheme shows need for clear strategy, raised profile and better ‘clout’.
3. Bottled water elimination campaigns save all round
Campaigns to eliminate bottled water make significant savings, help reduce resource use and increase environmental awareness.
4. People fail to spot energy hotspots
Study shows that people underestimate how much energy is used by common equipment.
5. Debunking energy and climate myths
Advice on debunking climate change myths.
6. Tip: Weather vs. Climate
Short video on explaining the concepts of climate and weather.

e-Bulletin 17

1. Energy consumption feedback helps cut power use
Workplace energy consumption feedback with smart meters and 'reflection' workshops, offers significant potential for saving.
2. Staff donate their energy to help good cause
Staff are motivated to save energy by donating the savings to a good cause
3. Interactive energy workshop makes energy saving fun
Interactive team-building workshop gets employees on the carbon trail.
4. Maintaining the momentum with award and recognition programmes
3M Energy Awards & Recognition Program helps motivation, boosts communication and makes valuable energy savings.
5. Employee vigilance scheme improves HSE
Staff act to ensure that health, safety and environment concerns are identified and corrected through simple reporting.
6. Tip: Keeping waste out of landfill
Realistic labelling can help increase recycling.

e-Bulletin 16

1. Workplaces where everyone is responsible
How Unilever makes everybody responsible for sustainability.
2. Using sport to change environmental behaviour
Advice on using gaming techniques to motivate people on environmental issues.
3. Live Energy Wall builds awareness
Use of energy consumption feedback through live Energy Wall.
4. Staff respond to walking challenge
Pedometer Challenge campaign gets people out of their cars and promotes sustainability at work.
5. Stairway to energy heaven
Campaign encourages using the stairs instead of the lift on health grounds.
6. Tip: energy saving IS for Christmas
Saving energy over the Christmas break.

e-Bulletin 15

1. Recognition motivates more than money
Research confirms that public recognition, not money, motivates more in saving energy in the workplace.
2. Making an impact with accreditation and awards
Staff accreditation and award scheme that encourages, rewards, and celebrates environmental best practice.
3. Employee engagement targets willing majority
Staff interest in sustainability is represented by the classic bell curve – the willing majority to target is in the middle.
4. Keeping warm without turning up the thermostat
Woolly Jumper Days encourage people to dress appropriately for the weather.
5. Let's play water conservation
Hands-on interactive water conservation game encourages people to test their knowledge and get involved in water saving.
6. Tip: Signalling the importance of sustainability
How an organisation can signal the priority it gives to sustainability.

e-Bulletin 14

1. Tree planting campaign saves resources for hotel group
Accor hotels reduce costs and environmental impacts through guest towel reuse scheme, supported by staff.
2. Making energy waste visible
Energy waste is made visible through "Leaking power outlets" and giant displays of utilities bills.
3. Recognition schemes reward sustainable action
Recognition schemes reward sustainable action through gifts, prizes and ecopoints.
4. Promoting sustainability at work through goods exchange
Goods exchange schemes at work help raise employee engagement on environmental issues.
5. Smaller bins mean less waste
Smaller bins are key part of solution to reducing waste sent to landfill in waste reduction campaigns.
6. Tip: telling the story of energy saving
Storytelling is highly effective technique to get the energy message across.

e-Bulletin 013

1. Got 10 minutes?
IFC implements interactive e-learning module to get staff thinking about the environmental impact of their actions at work.
2. An environmental message that grows on you
A unique and spectacularly simple way to get the environmental message accross reaps success at Australian company.
3. Paper vs. Reusable - not such a mugs game
Promoting reusable mugs - their impact begins to break-even against paper counterparts after 15 uses.
4. Getting staff buy in
Scotiabank's approach to getting staff buy in from the start on sustainability campaigns.
5. Bespoke solution
Bike scheme a success at Standing Stone Brewing Company in Oregon.
6. Tip: The Single Action Bias
Overcoming limited reaction to climate change.

e-Bulletin 012

1. Yoyo paper keeps coming back
Paper recycling scheme that helps organisations effectively recycle their "own" paper gains user support.
2. City champions prove their points
Eco Points scheme motivates Environmental Champions to embed environmental awareness.
3. Greening the blue
Information and resources from the United Nations internal staff awareness campaign to green the organisation.
4. Sustain ability
Double-barrelled campaign helps keep the momentum going in Toronto hospitals, with a touch of TLC.
5. MAP programme helps find sustainable treasure
Stonyfield’s Mission Action Program engages employees in its sustainability mission, built on 11 key areas of environmental impact.
6. National and European energy awareness events
Sustainable Energy Week & Green Office Week
7. Tip: The pool of worry
Worrying about climate change.

e-Bulletin 011

1. Tower power
Investec Bank's use of ingenious visual displays and energy saving competitions to reduce energy and paper use.
2. Staff committed to turning new leafs
Harvard University's Green Office Programme system for sustainable workplaces.
3. Elopak puts a cap on carbon
The “Green Challenge” campaign and senior management commitment at Elopak reaps rewards.
4. Reduce fuel use by 10% with a glass of water!
Reducing vehicle fuel use by 10% with a simple glass of water – how Toyota promoted ecodriving behaviour.
5. EDF gets the energy mix right
Advice for running energy awareness campaigns from EDF’s pilot programme in its Côte d'Azur offices.
6. World water day
Resources for World Water Day 22 Mar '11.
7. Tip: Keeping down with the Joneses
Don't follow the crowd.

e-Bulletin 010

1. Beating information overload

2. Taking the pledge

3. Conservers at work

4. Getting the climate right for transport

5. Energy labels

6. Bank drafts strategy for the environment

7. Tip: Feedback


e-Bulletin 009

1. Staff sign up to carbon trading

2. Hospital uses its EARs for the environment

3. Communicating through mind maps

4. Winter woollies

5. Cycling changes gear

6. Tip: Mind your language


e-Bulletin 008

1. My Planet

2. Sell the sizzle not the sausage

3. Carbon dating

4. Bringing the savings home

5. Visualising carbon

6. Tip: Recognition


e-Bulletin 007

1. Shoot first, ask questions later

2. Saving days

3. Energy Challenge sparks competitive spirit

4. BT staff go clubbing

5. Green My Parents

6. Tip: Awareness surveys


e-Bulletin 006

1. Switching on to Switching off

2. Offices run barefoot for the environment

3. Junk mail party

4. Pedalling ideas

5. A sweet message

6. Tip: Getting the message across


e-Bulletin 005

1. Promoting sustainable travel to work

2. University puts paper out of print

3. The fun theory of energy saving

4. Integrating sustainability into staff policy

5. Energy Citizens pass the test

6. Staff volunteer to be Energy Advisors

7. Tip: Killer comebacks


e-Bulletin 004

1. Tip: What does CO2 look like?

2. Computer switch-off campaign

3. Is your lunch causing global warming?

4. News Corporation spreads the word

5. Tweeting meters

6. Welsh Green Teams work to make a million


e-Bulletin 003

1. Tip: Switch-off campaigns

2. Office workers warm to Cool Biz

3. Saving energy is in the simple Flick of a Switch!

4. Citi maintains interest through staff buy-in

5. Combat climate change on your mobile phone

6. Student Power delivers energy savings

7. Council learns key lessons on awareness campaign


e-Bulletin 002

1. Tip: Remember!

2. Bike Bus

3. Fire flighters

4. Frito-Lay’s appetite for success

5. Irish bring jungle to Life at city centre office

6. Please reuse the towels

7. Roche soaks up ideas


e-Bulletin 001

1. Getting meters to come out of the closet

2. Abbott save energy with the help of TEA

3. Pharmaco finds perfect bi-monthly boost for energy saving levels

4. Democracy rules in staff recognition programme at London’s hospitals

5. People power

6. Tip: Financial incentives


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