Green Gown Awards 2012 - Best Newcomer - Bloomsbury Colleges - Highly Commended

Greenthing - Shared Environmental Management System Implementation

A project to employ a shared Environmental Manager post between five Bloomsbury Colleges of the University of London, implement a certified Environmental Management System, and initiate activities in staff and student engagement as well as supporting carbon management objectives and targets. Initially a 3 year project, its success has led to the commitment to a permanent role and continued projects for improvement. The project includes monitoring our impact on the environment, implementing technical solutions to improve environmental performance and encouraging more sustainable behaviours in our staff and students.

This includes reducing the use of energy and water, minimising waste by thinking about what we buy and reusing things where we can, and making sustainable choices for travel such as cycling and public transport.