From the 9th to the 13th February 2015 People and Planet are running their annual ‘Go Green Week’ – a week of climate action in Universities, School and Colleges.
Our Jump programme at the University of Chichester is all about encouraging sustainability and wellbeing at the University so we thought we’d mark Go Green Week by offering double points for all activity during the week – with some great results!
In only three days we’ve seen over 70 positive actions take place ranging from group emails encouraging people to add a ‘please do not print me’ message to their signatures; to encouraging Phd students to sign documents electronically rather than printing them out.
The competitive element of the programme is a great motivator, with people wanting more Green Points to push their team up the Chichester leaderboard in pursuit of first prize. There’s currently a fierce battle between the Academic Quality & Standards department and the Research and Employee Engagement Office for the top spot!
We find that tying the programme into national and international sustainability and wellbeing events really helps to motivate people to do more. We’re currently finalising some special activities for Fairtrade Fortnight and Climate Week for our existing Jump clients.
