{"id":459,"date":"2012-06-28T13:45:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T13:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/?p=459"},"modified":"2024-09-02T16:54:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T15:54:37","slug":"sustainability-awards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/2012\/06\/28\/sustainability-awards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week saw the University of Greenwich celebrate its Sustainability Awards for the second year running \u2013 the awards bring together staff, students, volunteers and outside organisations that have helped the University in the world of sustainability over the last 12 months.  This year\u2019s event had an extra bit of sheen as the University was also celebrating coming top in the People & Planet University Green League Table published in the Guardian newspaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following requests from the sustainability champions we decided to create a whole day\u2019s worth of events and really give those that had been involved over the last 12 months an experience where they would be able to enjoy themselves, learn something new and feel empowered and energised to take their sustainability efforts to the next level. In the morning we invited the sustainability champions to the lawn at Southwood House where we separated into two groups and headed off to one of two workshops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jennifer leads the first group on a forage of Avery Hill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One workshop took the champions on a short walk around the campus led by Jennifer Patterson, from the School of Education, to see what could be foraged from the hedgerows on site. We found a multitude of different plants, some with medicinal qualities and others that fell under the category of \u2018tasting good!\u2019 We found marsh mallow Althaea officinalis<\/em>, red clover Trifolium pratense, <\/em>elderflower sambucus, <\/em>fat-hen Chenopodium album <\/em>and white deadnettle Lamium album <\/em>among the bushes and hedgerows, some of which made it into a delicious salad prepared for lunch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other workshop was led by James Hallybone from Roundfield<\/a>, who have been designing our community garden, to create a \u2018showcase\u2019 raised bed made out of willow and planted with perennial fruits and herbs. Starting with a pile of willow sticks, enormous piles of compost and soil and a few small plants the results by the end of the day were spectacular and a sign of how hard the sustainability champions had worked during the workshops!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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James points to the soil and exclaims, ‘Make me a raised bed!’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The finished raised bed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lunch followed, with a delicious spread laid out by Sodexdo, including the foraged flowers, herbs and salad leaves picked in the morning. At this point we were joined by many more members of staff from the University, from members of the senior management team, that we have worked with to secure funds and get agreement and support for university wide projects, members of the Student\u2019s Union, who we will be aiming to help achieve a first Green Impact Student\u2019s Unions award, and staff and students who have been involved in projects from the ISO14001 accreditation to the community garden and everything in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our delicious menu for the day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After lunch we headed out of the sunshine and into the David Fussey building where the Sustainability Team gave a short \u2018Prezi\u2019 <\/a><\/em>on what it had taken to get to the top of the Green League and what could almost be described as a sustainability call to arms from Deputy Vice Chancellor Neil Garrod. Neil was looking to impassion and inspire those that were in the room to focus their efforts on sustainability and not to give up or rest on their laurels after the successes of the past few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lunch under the ‘marquee’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The awards presentation followed with the sustainability champions collecting awards for each of their departments (see list below for who won what) and a few special awards for people who had been driving sustainability in particular or specialist areas over the course of the year. One award which deserves a special mention is the \u2018Environmental Hero\u2019 award for the person who has gone above and beyond the call of duty and really pushed sustainability. This year the winner was Caroline Troy from the NRI<\/a> who completed more tasks in the Green Impact workbook than anyone else for a second year running, was the only sustainability champion to complete the Laboratories section of the workbook and had also been working hard with the carbon management team to re-vamp the glasshouses on the Medway campus making them much more energy efficient!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the awards we had a presentation from Luke Nicholson of Carbon Culture to show some of the pioneering work they have been doing with government departments to encourage behaviour change and deliver carbon savings. The group of champions, staff and students then worked together to come up with ideas and challenges that we could focus on in the next 12 months \u2013 giving us a good way to round up the session that had celebrated looking back by looking forward and picking off some of the sustainability actions and targets for next year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Green Impact Awards:<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Working Towards Accreditation:<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Procurement (Ian Husson)<\/td><\/tr>
Greenwich Facilities Management (Caroline Churchill)<\/td><\/tr>
Bronze:<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Architecture, Design & Construction (Gesche Heubner)<\/td><\/tr>
Computing & Mathematical Sciences (Guy Penwill)<\/td><\/tr>
School of Education (Yana Tainsh)<\/td><\/tr>
School of Engineering (Ian Cakebread)<\/td><\/tr>
Office of Finance (Yuri Panton)<\/td><\/tr>
Greenwich Research & Enterprise (Lara Everest)<\/td><\/tr>
Vice Chancellor\u2019s Office (Miriam Lakin)<\/td><\/tr>
Silver:<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Accommodation Office (Heather Lilliman)<\/td><\/tr>
School of Business (Mary McCartney)<\/td><\/tr>
Central Facilities Management (John Bailey)<\/td><\/tr>
Guidance & Employability Team (Ed Paxton)<\/td><\/tr>
Human Resources (Anna Radley)<\/td><\/tr>
Medway ILS (Karen Worden & Lynn Finnemore)<\/td><\/tr>
Medway Student Centre (Angela Ware)<\/td><\/tr>
Planning & Statistics (Karl Molden)<\/td><\/tr>
Recruitment & Admissions (April Moore)<\/td><\/tr>
Avery Hill Student Centre (Amanda Cappuccio)<\/td><\/tr>
Student Helpline (Helene Pirsch)<\/td><\/tr>
Welfare & Student Support (Sherry Hosein)<\/td><\/tr>
Health & Social Care \u2013 Psychology (Jim Demetree)<\/td><\/tr>
Office of Student Affairs \u2013 Executive (Norma Powell)<\/td><\/tr>
Gold:<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Alumni, Public Relations & Communications (Vicky Noden)<\/td><\/tr>
Medway Facilities Management (John Bisbrown)<\/td><\/tr>
Avery Hill ILS (Carol Rostek)<\/td><\/tr>
Marketing (Fiona Bradley)<\/td><\/tr>
Student Finance (Amanda Hatton)<\/td><\/tr>
Student Records (Julian Murphy)<\/td><\/tr>
Student Records Systems (Sophie Clements)<\/td><\/tr>
Platinum & Labs:<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Natural Resources Institute (Caroline Troy)<\/td><\/tr>
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Special Awards:<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Student Participation \u2013 Sarah Sheikh, Mary McCartney & Business School<\/td><\/tr>
Team Award \u2013 Avery Hill Porters<\/td><\/tr>
Lance Armstrong Award for Cycling \u2013 Simon Earp & Neil Garrod<\/td><\/tr>
Carbon Reduction Award \u2013 Nigel Heugh & Building Services Team<\/td><\/tr>
Education for Sustainability Award \u2013 Jennifer Patterson<\/td><\/tr>
Volunteer of the Year \u2013 Linda Marie Schroyen<\/td><\/tr>
Championing Biodiversity Award \u2013 Chris Powner<\/td><\/tr>
Creative Communications Award \u2013 Vicky Noden<\/td><\/tr>
Positive Deviant Award \u2013 Ian Cakebread<\/td><\/tr>
Innovation Award \u2013 Jim Demetree<\/td><\/tr>
Green Transport Award \u2013 Guidance & Employability Team<\/td><\/tr>
Unsung Hero Award \u2013 Sue<\/td><\/tr>
Team Award \u2013 Portering Team<\/td><\/tr>
Hosepipe Ban Award \u2013 Grounds Team<\/td><\/tr>
Department of the Year \u2013 Office of Student Affairs<\/td><\/tr>
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Environmental Hero Award:<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Caroline Troy<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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