Winners and losers?
As we have a few tech based companies here is a little comparison. All of these companies work is based around computers and most of the work is done inhouse making them suitable for comparison, howev...
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As we pick up the stragglers – what will be learnt?
As we reach the point of all the 8 audits being completed soon, I reflect on how easy it has been to gather the information needed to complete them. Those companies who were sat down and data was gath...
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Start of audits
We have eight organisations in Cohort 1. A purposive sample chosen from Claydon Court tenants and other known organisations – perfectly acceptable for case study research like this where we are de...
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We like a good theory. See what you reckon to this one.
We are just looking at Suffolk SMEs for now but hopefully in the future this model of reducing small businesses carbon footprint could be scaled up and functioning all over the UK, the world even! But...
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Private Policy or Public Promise?
What is worth more? Which will actually be achieved within a acceptable time frame? A Private Policy or a Public Promise? After meeting with two very different companies today I have begun to consider...
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Views from UCS & World Land Trust
Met with Will Thomas who from University Campus Suffolk (UCS) to discuss our ideas. Interesting to learn there is an MA in Sustainable Business (with leadership) being launched in September at UCS w...
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Grants to help you prepare for a changing market
Been searching for some grants so our cohort of businesses can fund the suggested work, one that looks very good but I hadn’t really considered is to help reduce water usage. The Grant is called Aqu...
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What a clever crowd you are
Using the ‘wisdom of the crowd’ is about utilising a diverse group of people, ‘the crowd’, to collectively make decisions and solve problems through ideas exchange. The internet has allowed fo...
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Keeping virtual
Discovered this website, which is designed so that the community helps you learn a language, by marking your assignments and allowing you to talk to people who speak the language you want to learn. It...
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Why are they not listening?
All the Champions have been contacted by Ned Harrison and information has been put on Twitter and LinkedIn yet still no one has taken the bait, I think we need a bigger hook. So what will get these wi...
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The mould for a forum to fit
Good forums seem to take a distinctive shape a main page with sections for easy navigation to the topic you are looking for. Examples of section we could use are the steps within the scheme so Audit, ...
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Different learner’s different techniques
After strumming through more sites of advice I came across this video which has given me a lot of food for thought. Firstly the design of the video with 3 guys sat around a table just isn’t very eng...
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Do institutes work?
Met with Will Sambrook of Green Light Trust. Explained background to LCC and how it evolved through earlier learning champions programme. Organisational assessments now moving to individuals based...
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What will it all mean in the end?
So my original plan of doing an online audit making some changes waiting 6 months/ a year and doing the same online audit got totally blown out the water by Will on Wednesday, when he pointed out that...
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Educate Educate Educate – Hopefully change some behaviour!
Meeting with Will Sambrook today we covered how to best to engage people to change their behaviour! Will has a lot of experience in the field not just environmentally related so his experience and kno...
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Are you really listening?
Distant learning, ELearning however it is referred to loses that face to face time which is what generally engage people. So in my quest not to put information online to gather virtual dust as no one ...
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To name or not to name!
As the Claydon Court website comes closer and closer to being completed setting up for the transferal to LCD has begun the alteration to make the website so it will function smoothly and provide peopl...
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Suffolk County Council Perspective
Meeting with Ned Harrison who usefully explained what Suffolk County Council are up to at the moment. As Green Economy Officer he is responsible for ‘Growing the Green Economy’ and Programmes. ...
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Can 30mins active time lead to more productive work time?
Having recently started exercising more myself, I am beginning to see the benefits in my work, not suffering from after lunch sleepiness being the most evident. Katie Langley’s article in business...
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How do make the unwise wise?
How wise is the crowd? The wisest on reducing businesses CO2 is surely the current carbon champions but it seems there is a very uneven spread of which sector these champions are in 62% being within e...
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