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Green Impact

How to identify your most significant environmental aspects and impacts. Green Impact. What are the ‘quick wins’ with maximum impact?. How would you implement these. Getting started.

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Green Impact

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  1. How to identify your most significant environmental aspects and impacts Green Impact

  2. What are the ‘quick wins’ with maximum impact? How would you implement these

  3. Getting started B029: The team has identified, ranked and documented what it believes are its five most significant environmental aspects & impacts. 

  4. What are impacts and aspects Cause Effect Environmental Aspect • any element of an organisation’s activities, products or services, that can interact with the environment. Environmental impact • any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organisations activities, products or services

  5. EXAMPLE - Printing agendas for meetings Cause Effect Environmental impact Environmental Aspect Aspect: Use of printer Impact: contributes to global warming Aspect: Use of paper Impact: use of fossil fuels: burden on earths resources Impact: Deforestation

  6. Your turn… Identifying your own environmental aspects and impacts: • Brainstorm your activities • What environmental aspects are associated with these? • What are the environmental impacts of this? • Identify the significance of each impact: • Intensity • Likelihood

  7. Themes to consider Energy Heat & lightning Waste & Recycling Reuse, recycle & compost Travel Bike schemes & Liftshare Procurement Worker’s rights, Fairtrade & sustainable suppliers Wellbeing, Biodiversity & Community Nature trail & bee hives Embedding Communication & Administration Greening the curriculum & charity in the wider community

  8. General Considerations • Direct or indirect • Real or perceived • Occur under normal operating conditions • Occur under abnormal operating conditions • Due to accident • Due to incident (eg vandalism) • Due to past (or future) activities

  9. Contact details Sustainable Behaviour Assistant: Jane Nurse j.i.p.nurse@swansea.ac.uk 01792606391 Your NUS Green Impact Project Officer: Odette Wills Odette.Wills@nus.org.uk 07813921439

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