Greenlines Issue number 33, April/ May 2013 Page 3 In some cases, we are looking at giving delegates/students a tablet device to access the materials online rather than printing them out. This is only if budgets allow and efficiencies are apparent. The review is still taking place and results will be shared when concluded. In addition to these changes we have also tried to tackle our business
travel. By improving and promoting our telecommunications facilities and making video conferencing more effective we hope that people will make the choice not to travel. Alongside me as Environmental Coordinator is my colleague Zoe Harris. We try and promote green behaviours in our immediate workplace but have discovered that by identifying other
The results - Switch Off Week poll Approximately 300 people across the University voted to let us know how we should spend the savings from Switch Off Week. Switch Off Week was a campaign to raise awareness across staff and students about how much electricity they use and to take action to switch off. The initiative produced £5,000 worth of savings in one week. This sum was multiplied by a factor of 10 by the Energy and Carbon Reduction Project to give £50,000 to invest back into further energy saving measures. Last month we asked you, the staff and students of the University, how you would like this money to be spent,
colleagues around the school to also be on board, ensure the message covers a wider audience and has more effect to more people.
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promising to invest £50,000 on the most popular initiative.
Green Impact Audits
Staff and students decided overwhelmingly that they would like the money to be invested in the installation of movement sensors that will automatically turn off lights when there is no one in the room to use them.
Now Green Impact teams have submitted their workbooks, we need someone to go around and audit them, so we have recruited 15 students to recieve IEMA acredited training and get out in departments and find out what
A large amount of lighting within University buildings is already controlled by sensors which detect either movement or ambient daylight levels. More of these controls are retrofitted every year, but the success of this suggestion will see an acceleration of the programme.
they have done.
Thank you to everyone who took part.
How University of Cambridge staff & students want to invest £50,000
Internships For more information about positions and to apply please visit the ‘Vacation Work’ section on the Career Service website: http://www.careers.cam.ac.uk/ VacAndOpps.asp. Deadline 15th May.
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We can’t wait to celebrate all the hard work and achievements of our Green Impact teams this year. The official award ceremony presented by Prof Jeremy Sanders Pro- VC for Institutional Affairs, will be held on 13th June 2013.
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