Go Green Launch | 10th February 2015 | Amy Robinson, Welcome to Go Green
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Amy Robinson, Network Director Low Carbon South West introduces the Go Green programme and outlines what it means for businesses in the Bristol and West of England region.
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Go Green Launch | 10th February 2015 | Amy Robinson, Welcome to Go Green
- 1. Welcome to Go Green Amy Robinson Network Director – Low Carbon South West Project Co-Director – Go Green
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- 5. Heat Recruitment Heaven on Earth Green Funerals HEFCE Heritage Found Hilton Bristol Hilton Garden Inn Hoare Lea Hotel du Vin HSBC Bank PLC IGNITION Insider South West Interserve Irsha Ltd t/a On the Move JBP Associates Johnston Horsburgh Ltd JRP Solutions Kids Company Knowle West Media Centre KPMG LLP Lakeside Films Ltd Lakota Latcham Direct Ltd Learning Partnership West Lesscarbonlink Lighting Services LiterARTI Lombard North Central PLC Lowrey Contractors Ltd MAKE IT Work McArthur Davies McKenzie Marketing Meade King LLP Mercure Bristol Holland House Hotel and Spa Microserve Midas Group Mindfulness Bristol / Equanalta Moon Consulting MoreFrom Coaching Ltd Nameless Media Group Ltd Nash Partnership NatWest NearDesk neighbourly Nisbets plc North Bristol SusCom North Somerset Enterprise Agency LTD Nuttall NVIDIA Corp OggaDoon PR OVO energy Oxford Instruments Particle Productions Pedal Power Transport Peter Evans Partnership Ltd Planet Pizza Premier Apartments Pukka Herbs Quartet Community Foundation Rebalance Resource Resource Futures RH Small Business Support Room 212 Santander Corporate Banking Savills Secure UK Ltd SETsquared Sift Skanska Smith & Williamson Society of Merchant Venturers SOFA Project Solarsense UK Limited Spike Island ss Great Britain St George's Bristol St Peter's Hospice Stride Treglown Stripe OLT Studio Cars Bristol Ltd Supported Independence Ltd Sustain ltd Sustainable Business Solutions Ltd Sustain-Live T H White Installation Ltd The Architecture Centre The Bottle Yard Studios The Bristol Hotel The Design Programme The Initiative The Mall at Cribbs Causeway The Schumacher Institute The Wave Bristol Thrings LLP Tim Hale Paintings Transport Planning Associates Tree Planting Holidays Triodos Bank Triodos Renewables plc Turley U-BUR Pictures University of Bristol University of the West of England VoiceByVolume Marketing Watershed Wessex Garages Westward Leasing whichledlight.com Women Outside The Box Yogscast Ltd Your Power
- 6. Our ambition West of England Carbon Challenge Awards 2014
- 7. The Vision
- 9. The Solution
- 11. The five pillars
- 16. What to do now • Create your action plan • Get your board on board • Spread the word • Sign up for an event
Editor's Notes
- My name is Amy Robinson – I am network director at Low Carbon south west, we are a membership organisation working to grow the low carbon and environmental sector and I am thrilled that we are working with Business west on this fantastically exciting project – although we didn’t know this at the time – it turns out that this is in fact the culmination of many years work, and I am so pleased to see it come to fruition and to be able to share it with you today.
- So you have heard a lot about why green exists, and it’s place in the 2015 programme – I’d like to talk to you now about what it is, how it came about, and how you can get involved. What is Go Green? Online tool – to help make connections, cross pollinate, create more and better green business activity across the city region. City-region wide way to capture and share all the great work that is taking place – through the tool, and the surrounding activity – we will be able to see what matters most to our businesses, and what they are doing to change And an events programme – wide and varied – designed to help share best practice etc build networks and create connections between businesses We have already engaged with hundreds of companies and organisations and are working with some of them on our first events – these include SS Great Britain, Bristol Zoo, River Cottage Canteen, Airbus and Ovo Energy
- I really want to thank all the people and organisations who have enabled Go Green to get this far. Go Green is all about collaboration, so it’s only right that the programme is delivered as a partnership between BW and LCSW Nina has spoken about the Go Green project and the West of England Carbon challenge – and our experience running those projects has proved invaluable in creating the roeurces, and the relationships that comprise Go Green We must recognise Bristol2015 and the local authorities who have been instrumental in making it happen and has provided first year of funding and, of course, the Green Capital Partnership as a key organisation to promote green activity across the whole city – but over the course of developing Go Green we are really pleased to have had input from many others, not from traditionally green organisations, such as the Institute of Directors, the federation of small business, Destination Bristol, as well of course, as the members of WECC, IYRE, Business West, The Initiative, the green capital business group and many others. And we look forward to continuing to work with all of them, and many more in the coming year. But most importantly….
- Most importantly – we want to work with You! This is just some of the organisations who have signed up to be here today…. You can see what a fantastically diverse list it is, but that’s only up to H, I needed a whole second slide for the rest
- And in fact, this slide is a few days old now, we have had even more organisation sign up since then So I want to thank you for taking the time to come today, and we really look forward to working with you.
- We are being very ambitious with this project-We want to get at least 1000 businesses involved – if everyone here signs up, we are over a quarter of the way there! This photo was taken at the West of England Carbon Challenge Awards in December- we had a fantastic turnout and celebrated some great stories, we are looking forward to an even bigger and better event this year.
- So what was out vision for Go Green - We have been working for the last year to identify what businesses wanted and needed, Where were the gaps are in what is currently available to you We already knew that a lot of businesses wanted to do more, and that number would only grow, particularly in the light of European green capital We wanted to create something that would celebrate success of those who are already achieving great things, but also provide, help, advice and guidance to those who were looking at these issues for the first time. So we needed to create a scheme that would suit businesses of all types, sizes and stages of progress to becoming ‘green’ In fact when we say business, we don’t just mean for-profit companies, we mean any type of organisation that has to consider it’s financial position, if you have to pay bills, pay staff, occupy a building – Go Green should be albe to help you
- The challenge we faced was that we knew there are lots of schemes out there to help, and the Bristol region is also full of initiatives (like those you will hear from today) who do amazing work, and are the reason we won the award, as well as a vibrant green business sector – it was essential that whatever we put in place would not compete with those organisations and companies, but would be something that would enable them to become more successful
- Our job became to make something that would (without wanting to sound to grandiose) be greater than the sum of it’s parts, but be based on the principal of working with all of the fantastic projects and businesses already working in this space. Including the voluntary, charity, not for profit, and for profit organisations that exist. The for profit element is important here – we are a business support scheme, but we don’t just want to support businesses to be green, we want to help grow the businesses that help to make us green. That’s all part of creating a responsible and resilient city-region. So we aren’t embarrassed to say we want to help companies, as long as those companies are helping our go green businesses. And we need to be practical about this, because we were also always aware, that 2015 is just one year – we are already over 10% of the way through it, and this programme must be much more ambitious than that – it must be looking further into the future, so it needs to be able to cover it’s costs, and grow to meet the ever increasing demand So how did we go about creating something that would add value where so much value already exists? We have created an umbrella, and a route map, and a tool kit
- it doesn’t matter how green your business already is – wherever you are on your journey – Go Green should have something to help you The programme has three phases – Sheri, Jimmy and Jessica will be speaking about this in much more detail in the second session, but for those of you who can’t stay, I just want to give you an overview Say It means signing up and creating an action plan, so after today you will all be getting a link with details on how to do this Do it means using your action plan to improve your business, access information, share your experiences at events Prove it is for our Green pioneers – those of us who want to make a statement about their green achievements, to be able to share their expertise and to demonstrate leadership – to begin with this will be the companies who have already achieved a lot, but over the year and beyond, we hope to see more and more businesses making it to the prove it stage More information about this is the next session but the important things to note are: At this stage we are asking businesses to be able to demonstrate that they really are doing what they say they are, act as thought leaders within Go Green, and make a financial contribution to the programme. I have said that GG is being supported in it’s first year by 2015, but we believe that this has the potential to become an important and longlasting tool, and our ambitions reach far beyond the end of 2015. As such, we are planning a number of ways to enable us to continue to build Go Green, they include sponsorship and commission avenues, but in addition, we are asking that those businesses who choose to aim for the Prove it stage (but only those businesses) make a financial contribution that recognises, their commitment to the objectives of the scheme, their desire to support 2015 and what it stands for, and acknowledgment of the value of the network to their own business, and importantly, as a facilitator to enable the businesses in their own supply chains to make the same achievements that they have
- The activity is split into five areas of activity – these Pillars were chosen to illustrate that it is important to consider a wide range of issues and activity – for example to be a truly sustainable business, we must be resilient, and look after our staff, as well as saving energy and reducing our environmental impacts
- So whats the first step? Here’s a look at the Go Green website – and, here is a link to the Go Green Tool - when you click here – it takes you through an online portal to our bespoke, interactive sustainability resource
- You will be asked to enter information about you company type and size, and this is really important as it’s used to ensure that the signposting you receive will be relevant to you
- Here’s an example of how a couple of the Pillar appear. These are the five top issues that we have identified that businesses face – you can pick the ones that are relevant to your business
- The tool then creates an action plan that’s entirely tailor made for you. You can then go through it, picking the actions you want, and identifying your progress to date. Once complete – the plan can be downloaded as a pdf that you can use within your business, as a to-do list, or as a board reporting mechanism You can see some examples here that relate to employees needing to travel to meetings – with advice on everything from creating a cycle mileage policy, to trialling an electric bike, or joining a car club This also has a wider purpose, because although the reports we receive are anonymous, we can see how many businesses are choosing to take measures, and how many of them complete them – this will be really helpful in the future and will provide really valuable information about how our regions businesses are really doing.
- So, there’s nothing left to do, but sign up, and give it a go. Registering and completing your action plan is all entirely free, and will hopefully help even the greenest companies think about some things that haven’t occurred to them before Everyone who signs up with receive newsletters with useful information and invitations to exclusive events