What is Green Impact?

Green your department, have fun and win prizes.

Green Impact is a fun, simple and innovative program that inspires staff and students to collectively green Manchester Metropolitan University buildings. The best part about Green Impact is that everyone gets acknowledged for their hard work and celebrates collective achievements at the end of the program in an amazing awards ceremony. The changes made through our ‘Green Champions’ are sustained and a legacy is created.

Useful Documents

• Green Impact Launch Presentation

Steps towards Green Impact

• Step 1 Pop along to our Green Impact Team Workshops to share your go green adventures with your fellow Green Champions and teams. Gain valuable advice from our National Green Impact Development Manager and learn simple easy steps to green your department. As there is a new workbook deadline make the most of the extra time picking up extra bonus points. Have a look at the special awards and get cracking to win one.

  • 20th February

    All Saints · Ormond Room, 11:00 – 12:00

  • 21st February

    Crewe · Seeley Room S-0-29, 11:00 – 12:00

  • 22nd February

    All Saints · John Dalton Room E201, 11:00 – 12:00

  • 23rd February

    All Saints (Labs) · JD Room E214, 11:00 – 12:00

• Step 2 Get your Green Champions together and create a ‘Green Team’ within your department and fill in the Green Impact sign up form. Send to it to your Green Impact Co-ordinators Robert and Laura. We recommend that you build a team as large as possible so that as much support is given to greening your work place. We do appreciate that there are small departments with less staff and students so don’t worry if you can’t get 10 members.
• Step 3 Get your team on it, have fun, get as many actions done as possible and hand in your workbooks to Robert and Laura.
• Step 4 Be an auditor and tour the departments, ticking off the amazing green actions completed by the ‘Green Teams’.
• Step 5 Attend our fantastic Green Impact Awards ceremony with guest appearances, presentations and awards for all your great efforts to inspire positive environmental change at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Your ‘Green champions’ work through clear and easy to implement criteria covering every aspect of sustainability: from biodiversity, sustainable travel and fair-trade, to energy, waste and locally sourced food. The workbook is designed to be accessible to anyone, even if you’ve never participated in a greening initiative ever before. You may find that you are probably doing a lot of the actions already.

Once you’ve handed in your workbook, everyone’s efforts get celebrated at an amazing Green Impact awards ceremony at the end of the year and you get to find out what award you’ve won, have fun, meet your other ‘Green Champions’ and eat delicious food.

Introducing the team

Get involved in Green Impact

What’s in it for you?

• It’s free to take part and it’s fun
• Opportunities for team building and collective success for you department.
• Bespoke toolkit designed to help you green your department.
• Recognised for environmental actions in place already in your department.
• Opportunities to inspire colleagues to think ‘green’ and create change.
• Opportunities to save on resources and money.
• Opportunity to learn new skills and achieve team goals.
• Win prizes and gain rewards for all your efforts.
• Progress MMU to be a sustainable university.
• Partnership with nationwide scheme for environmental sustainability representing the UK.

How do I sign up?

In Green Impact there is something for everyone and we aim to sign up as many teams as possible. Every department can build their ‘Green Team’ no matter whether you are academic or non-academic, you can even join up as a ‘Green Champion’ for teams on different floors in your building. There is no limit to size of your team, the more ‘Green Champions’ the better. To get involved follow these 3 simple steps:

• Step 1 Find out as much information as possible, look out for articles on the MMU website, Man Met Life and newsletters about the launch. Have a scan of the workbook and come to our Green impact drop in sessions:

  • Monday, 28th November · 12pm – 2pm

    Pennine Café

  • Thursday, 1st December · 12pm – 2pm

    Didsbury Refectory

  • Monday,5th December · 12pm – 2pm

    Elizabeth Gaskell Refectory

  • Thursday, 8th December · 12pm – 2pm

    Crewe Refectory

• Step 2 Get your green champions together and create a ‘Green Team’ within your department and fill in the Green Impact sign up form and send it back to your Green Impact Co-ordinators Robert and Laura before Friday 11th November. We recommend that you build a team as large as possible so that as much support is given to greening your work place.
• Step 3 Attend our Green Impact drop-in sessions (see the times and locations above) – this is where will give you all the information you need to complete the workbook, find out all the fantastic incentives and prizes on offer as well as a few surprises too.

Check out our promotional offers
available to all Green Impact teams:

Green your department, have fun and win prizes!

Take part!

Download the sign up form to take part. Send it back to us by Friday 11th November.

Your Support Network

Your MMU Green Impact Co-ordinators, Robert Croll and Laura Williams are always available to support you throughout the program. There are drop-ins scheduled and online posts circulating on Man Met Life, the Facilities Environment Team website, Moodle, facebook, Twitter and a monthly newsletters giving the latest top tips, videos, jokes and games to enjoy with your ‘Green Champions’.

Green your department, have fun and win prizes.

Who’s Participating?

• All Saints South Campus · Management Services Group
• All Saints South Campus Programme Teams
• All Saints South Campus · School of Law Office
• All Saints South Campus · Student Life Office
• Campus Services Sandra Burslem Building
• Careers and Employability, Counselling, Student Health and Well Being
• Centre for Academic Standards and Quality Enhancement (CASQE)
• Catering
• Centre of Innovation and Enterprise, Crewe
• Centre of Innovation and Enterprise, Didsbury
• Centre of Innovation and Enterprise, Minshull House
• Clothing, Design & Technology and Institute of Education
• Conference Team
• Crewe Library
• Dean of Faculty Art & Design Office
• Dean of Faculty Business School office
• Dean of Faculty Education Institute office
• Dean of Faculty HLSS office
• Dean of Faculty Hollings and Executive Team
• Dean of Faculty HSPC office
• Dental–Science Team
• Department of Health Professionals
• Department of Nursing
• Didsbury Library
• Director of Student Services & Deputy Registrar and Learner Development Office
• Elizabeth Gaskell Student Life
• Environmental Science services
• Exercise & Sports Science Crewe
• Facilities · 1st Floor Cavendish North
• Faculty of Science and Engineering
• Grounds staff
• Health Psychology and Social Care
• HR department
• Institute of Education programme office
• IT Helpline
• LRT
• Learning and Teaching Support, Crewe
• Management Services Group · Faculty of Science and Engineering
• Marketing Operations & Digital Business
• Marketing, Communications and Development
• MMU Cheshire Library
• MMU Cheshire Learning and Technology
• MMU Cheshire Technical Services
• MMU Cheshire Management Services
• MMUnion Cheshire
• MMUnion Manchester Central Office
• Recruitment & Admissions
• Registrar’s Office, Governance & Secretariat Team, Director of Services’ Office, Director of Faculty/Campus SAS Office, Information & Records Manager
• Research Institute of Health & Social Change
• Residential Serivces · Halls of Residence
• Right–On Team
• SAS Technical Services · Art & Design
• SAS Technical Support · FTM Hospitality Section
• Science and Engineering
• Science Learning Centre North West
• Security Services
• The COLT Project
• TSM Life Sciences & Dental Technology Team
• TSM Molecular Sciences
• TTL Technical Support Services
• TTL Environmental Sciences
• TTL Environmental Sciences 2
• TTL Microbiology
• TTL Chemistry
• TTL Analytic Sciences
• TTL Cell Biology
• TTL Electrical & Electronic Engineering
• TTL Advanced Manufacturing
• TTL Mechanical & Materials Sciences
• TTL Digital Technology
• VC’s Office

Workbook Hints & Tips

Here’s some helpful hints and tips to help you to progress through the workbook (access the Green Impact Workbook).

Jump to Recycling Energy Food Travel Other

Recycling/Waste

• B.002 The department has a scheme in place to collect used postage stamps from staff, and students if applicable, and donates them to a charitable reuse scheme. Find out more.
• B.003 The department sends all of its used printer and/or toner cartridges to a charity reuse scheme and keeps a log of the numbers and dates sent. Locate your nearest recycling point.
• B.004 There are enough paper recycling bins throughout the department for all staff to easily recycle their waste paper: To request additional paper recycling bins, please contact wasteandrecycling@mmu.ac.uk.
• S.001 The department provides reusable cups and glasses for visitors to use in preference to single-use disposable drinking vessels.
• S.002 Duplex Printing · for generic information on sustainable IT visit the Green ICT website.
• C.009 Reuse & Recycle Mobile Phones – take the unwanted phones to any Oxfam shop or contact the Environment Team at environment@mmu.ac.uk to find out where you can send them.

Energy

• B.005

  The department has energy-awareness stickers and posters in place in the majority of offices and communal facilities encouraging staff and students to switch off lights and/or equipment when not needed.

  Posters should be dated to show when they were put up and ideally refreshed every 12-months to keep them noticeable.

  If your department is located in a listed building, only put up posters and stickers where permissible. Download the poster. Order your FREE energy awareness stickers.

• B.006 Encourage people to use air conditioning appropriately. Download the poster.
• B.007 All banks of three or more light switches within the department have been labelled to identify which lights each switch operates.
• B.008 The department has an up-to-date written lighting and equipment responsibility plan covering all the main areas and key equipment within the department and all relevant staff have been made aware of the plan. Download the plan. Feel free to amend where necessary to suit your team or department.
• B.009 The department has a comprehensive shut-down checklist for vacations and all staff have been briefed on this. Download the plan. Feel free to amend where necessary to suit your team or department.
• B.010
  S.007 Identify areas that are being heated unnecessarily. Order your FREE Carbon Trust Thermometer.
• S.004 The department has provided information on at least five energy saving opportunities. Download Posters: Computers · Heating · Refrigeration · Photocopies
• C.059 The department has run its own water-saving campaign with the last 6-months. Download some Water efficiency awareness posters.
• S.006 The department has had a basic energy audit within the last 6 months. Use this template form covering the main areas of energy use.

Food

• B.014 Procurement: what’s best to eat when? Download the eat seasonably calendar. When purchasing food for departmental meetings the department ensures that it meets at least two of the following: Download guidance on sustainable meetings and conferences.
• Save around £50 a month by not wasting food! Visit the Love Food, Hate Waste website for more information.

Travel

• B.011 Within the last 6-months the department has proactively promoted any two of the following to the majority of its staff:
  • Interest free cycle loans
  • Man Met Riders
  • Local cycle shop discounts
  • Monthly cycle to Work Rides
  • I Cycle
  • Campus/Local Area Walking Maps
  For more information please see the Staff travel section and the Students’ Union website.
• B.012 Within the last 6-months the department has proactively promoted any two of the following to the majority of its staff:
  • The University’s car-sharing scheme
  • The University’s shuttle bus service
  • The University’s interest-free loan scheme for bus passes
  • Transport mailing groups and journey planning software, e.g. Transport Direct.
• S.009 Either the department has imposed restrictions on staff using domestic air travel, or the department proactively offers incentives to encourage staff to use alternatives to domestic air travel. To compare carbon emissions by car, train, bus and plane visit the DirectGov website. For more information on the environmental impacts of flying visit the Energy Saving Trust website.
• C.066 The department has calculated its total carbon footprint for business miles travelled on University business in the last financial year. To calculate yours, use this carbon calculator.

Other Resources

• B.017 The department has identified what they believe are the 5 most negative environmental impacts from their operations. Document your findings using the impacts template form.
• B.020 At least 10% of staff in the team have made two or more of the pledges at the NUS website to reduce their environmental impact.
• Have you got a good desk or a bad desk? Find out.
• Top Impacts template
• Buisness Miles template
• Energy Checklist template
• Lighting and Equipment Management Plan template
• SMART action planning template
• Take the Stairs Poster
• Thank You Poster
• Alsager Campus Energy Survey
• Crewe Campus Energy Survey
• Elizabeth Gaskell Campus Energy Survey
• Hollings Campus Energy Survey
• All Saints Campus Energy Survey
• Didsbury Campus Energy Survey
• MFD – Photocopying – Instructions

Have you found a good resource?

If you wish to share any resources you have found please send them to Robert Croll and Laura Williams and we can post onto this website.

Green Impact Communications

Project Updates

• Winter Term Sustainable Investment Board Update Check out our Sustainable Investment Board Presentation, filled with facts and figures about how much impact Green Impact is having at MMU this year.

  View the Green Impact Sustainable Investment Board Update powerpoint presentation

Newsletter

Look out for your fortnightly newsletters posted on this part of this section of the website and e-mailed to your inboxes.

If you wish to add any quirky quotes, funny jokes, ‘Green Impact action shots’, videos or updates on your progress through Green Impact please send them to Robert Croll and Laura Williams.

Newsletter Archive

• Green Impact Newsletter · January 2012
• Green Impact Newsletter · December 2011
• Green Impact Newsletter · November 2011

Twitter

Check us out on twitter – we’re @mmuenvironment, for the latest news, hints and top tips to be the ultimate ‘Green Champion’. Use our Twitter to connect with other ‘Green Champions’ and let the world know how much you guys are doing in your Green Impact teams.

Facebook

Use our facebook page to post your thoughts around ‘Greening’ MMU and put your own pictures up and share ideas.

Green Campaigns

We will be communicating all the progress made on the other significant campaigns the Facilities Environment Team are running throughout the academic year. Stay tuned for: