1. Cutting Carbon with Green Impact
Michelle Farrell
Sustainability Project Officer – NUS

2. So…
Environmental awards programme which takes place in a range of organisations across the UK and beyond.
Based around an online toolkit which breaks sustainability down into easy to follow actions
The toolkit acts as a guide to help your business on their sustainability journey!
To sum up the video…
Green Impact provides structured frameworks to help create green campuses, curriculums and communities.

3. How is this relevant to carbon?
In the UK there is a £300 million opportunity in encouraging employees to adopt greener behaviours, which would result in saving over six million tonnes of carbon!

4. - 2014/15 national staff team survey
Why get involved?
Play your part in cutting carbon emissions
Reduce operational costs
Receive recognition for your efforts
Get others involved and be part of the Winchester Green Impact business community
Make Winchester a greener, cleaner place to live and work!
 ”It’s evident that Green Impact has reduced our environmental impacts, improved our working efficiencies and cost savings, but above all of that, it has led to a more joint-up-thinking across the business that was certainly missing in many areas.“
- 2014/15 national staff team survey

5. Last year 11 businesses saved 70 tonnes of CO2 through Green Impact

6. Green Impact on the ground
352 organisations

7. Green Impact at 10
NUS have won the UNESCO prize for education for sustainable development

8. What is Green Impact? Team recruitment Ongoing support
Planning and toolkit development
Team recruitment
Ongoing support
Toolkit submission and audits
Awards event
Feedback and evaluation

11. Student awareness and employability
Award Levels
Working towards Bronze - 10 points
Bronze points
Also a panel will select the best project of the year for a platinum award!
Silver points
Student awareness and employability
Gold points

12. Be creative!
Manchester Fire Brigade

13. Make it personal
One team ran a food collection campaign, ‘De-clutter your Cupboards’ over Jan.
They invited staff and students to take part and organised a collection from a local food bank.
Jan was picked as lots of people wanted to clear unhealthy food from house!

14. All Veggie options half price on Mondays!
Be resilient
All Veggie options half price on Mondays!
After trialling unpopular outright ban on meat options, decided to make veggie option half price, changed sceptics minds

15. …Have fun!
Lots of bakers- engaged pretty much everyone!

16. Get in touch #GreenImpact Michelle Farrell
Senior Sustainability Project Officer, NUS
#GreenImpact