ICT Role in 21st Century Education & its Challenges.pptx
Making a green impact
1. Making a Green Impact
Ian Young
Leeds University Library
@IanAYoung
2. Overview
• Structures and environmental priorities at Leeds Uni
• Environmental Co-ordinator role
• Setting up a green group in the Library
• Early successes
• NUS Green Impact Scheme
• Reflections
3. Organisational structures for sustainability
• Sustainability Team (in Estates)
• Environmental management system with targets
• Environmental Co-ordinators in schools and services
– Voluntary role alongside normal role
– Awareness raising
– Assist in Uni initiatives
– Lead on initiatives in Library
• Won a number of Green Gown awards
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/sustainabledevelopment/
4. University priorities
• Climate change and energy saving
– It All Adds Up campaign http://italladdsup.leeds.ac.uk/
• Transport
– UtravelActive, Velocampus, Bike Hub, Cycle to Work, Car Sharing,
Subsidised transport passes etc!
• Biodiversity
• Purchasing
– Fairtrade University status
• Waste and Recycling
5. Setting up a Green Group in the Library
• Environmental Co-ordinators – recruited
• Volunteers with enthusiasm
• Some training provided by uni
• Support from e.g. Carbon Trust
• Share ideas (LIS-Green)
• Harnessing positivity and ideas
• Raising profile
• Green induction for all new library staff
6. Early successes
• Waste recycling scheme
– Introduced recycling scheme –met 25% target in 2005
– Removed personal waste bins – rate up to 40%
– New target of 70% set in 2008
– New waste contractor means new rate is 92.9% for 2011!
– 100% recycled paper in Library and all withdrawn journals recycled
– New furniture and equipment re-use scheme
7. Early successes (2)
• Introduced Environmental induction for all new library staff
• Introduced Duplex printing on all printers
• Switch off energy campaign
• Identified a few areas to introduce PIR light controls
9. The famous Sshh bags
http://www.communitywalk.com/
librarybag
10. Green challenges for libraries
• Large sites
• Long opening hours
• Large public areas with few light switches/little user control
• Rising demand for power from laptop users
• What to do next?
11. NUS Green Impact Scheme
• What it is and how it works
• Examples
• Challenges
• Successes
• Benefits of the scheme
http://www.green-impact.org.uk/
12. How Green Impact scheme works
• All unis can participate (46 this year) – moving outside unis
• Accreditation scheme with awards
• Teams recruited from staff and students
• Workbook with greening actions
• Students trained as auditors
• Audit examines evidence of actions being carried out
• Each team given award appropriate to level of achievement
13. Workbook: Bronze examples
– There is clear guidance on how staff can double-side copy posted
within readable distance of each photocopier, and staff have been
made aware of this.
– The department sends all of its used printer and toner cartridges to
be re-used and keeps a log of numbers and dates sent.
– All banks of three or more light switches within the department have
been labelled to identify which lights each switch operates
– The department has identified, ranked and documented what it
believes are its five most significant negative environmental impacts.
14. Workbook: Silver examples
– The department has made printing from the majority of PCs double
sided by default.
– Either the department has had a basic energy audit within the last 6-
months resulting in an action list that has been considered by
departmental managers, or an energy audit has been carried out in
the last 24-months resulting in a written report with at least three of
the recommended actions from the audit having been put in place.
– Either the department has imposed restrictions on staff using
domestic air travelor the department proactively offers incentives to
encourage staff to use alternatives to domestic air travel
15. Workbook: Bonus/Gold examples
– In the last 12-months the department has engaged with one or more
of its suppliers to reduce the amount of packaging supplied with their
products.
– The department uses Better World Books’
http://www.betterworldbooks.co.uk/ book reuse scheme to actively
collect used and unwanted books from staff, and students if
applicable.
– Either the department hasn't bought any large flat screen TVs in the
last 24-months or, if it has, they have all been LCD not plasma
screens.
16. Our experience of the scheme
• Provides a validated process –empowers environmental co-
ordinators
• Raises profile throughout library and to senior managers
• Gives targeted practical actions
• Doing it annually allows momentum to be gained/sustained
• Some actions felt like they should be tackled at institution
level e.g. cleaning, catering etc
• Robustness of auditing?
17. Reflections
• Aware we have good institutional structure
• We had done the quick and obvious things
• Green Impact gave us a framework, validation and profile
• We have done a lot in 2 years
• We have a framework to carry on improving- with some
challenges!
We did environmental displays, themed on particular topics on our display boards at the entrance to each site.
We replaced the sale of plastic Library bags with Jute bags, and in the process scored a major marketing coup which even got reported on in the Guardian!
Fair to say after those quick and easy wins, we struggled a bit to know what to do next, we could get staff to turn lights off but that didn’t affect most of our buildings. We fitted some PIR in areas suitable but what else could we do? Easy to feel a bit daunted and powerless, we have large sites that use energy and don’t have easy control systems to reduce that energy usage.Where were we going to go from here?
Luckily for us at this point the University signed up to the NUS Green Impact scheme.
There are about 20 actions to perform to reach this first level, some examples on screen.Most at this level are fairly straightforward, although as you can see the last one gave the Group more to think about
As you can see can be some large some smallSome are about raising awarenessSome are about making actual changesSome are about raising the issues for Estates to deal withSome such as this last one, require senior management buy in, since it is they who would be likely to fly due to pressure on diary
To achieve Gold standard, you need to achieve at least 100 bonus points from the bonus criteriaLots to choose from, some more difficult than others, we tried to do them all (but didn’t succeed yet!)
