This webinar was designed as the kick off session for Creu Cymru Emergence, and was aimed at CEO equivalents and anyone else in the organisation who is leading on Emergence.
We covered:
- Pilot timeline
- Pilot goals
- Your role and responsibilities
- Introduction to:
- Staff engagement
- Understanding and monitoring environmental impacts
- Environmental policies and action plans
- Discussion
How to design, implement and evaluate behaviour change interventions in hospi...Leonardo ENERGY
The Carolina Healthcare System (CHS) in the Carolinas is among the leading, and largest healthcare organisations in the U.S., employing 62,000 people in 940 care locations. The system has 7,500 beds and over 12 million patient encounters every year. In its commitment to energy management, efficiency and conservation, the organisation is pursuing strategies to decrease its energy use. One such strategy is implementing programmes that encourage building facilities staff to change their behaviour. The first phase in the CHS behaviour change program, Energy Connect, is an intervention that encourages operators to detect and act on energy inefficiencies within the buildings they are responsible for. Building operators account for a small percentage of people in each building, but have a disproportionally high impact on energy use. Therefore, if they were to change their behaviours, they could dramatically reduce overall energy use. IEA DSM Task 24 and ACEEE’s Behavior and Human Dimensions of Energy Efficiency program helped the Sustainability Director of CHS to co-create a highly collaborative behaviour change field trial.
How to design, implement and evaluate behaviour change interventions in hospi...Leonardo ENERGY
The Carolina Healthcare System (CHS) in the Carolinas is among the leading, and largest healthcare organisations in the U.S., employing 62,000 people in 940 care locations. The system has 7,500 beds and over 12 million patient encounters every year. In its commitment to energy management, efficiency and conservation, the organisation is pursuing strategies to decrease its energy use. One such strategy is implementing programmes that encourage building facilities staff to change their behaviour. The first phase in the CHS behaviour change program, Energy Connect, is an intervention that encourages operators to detect and act on energy inefficiencies within the buildings they are responsible for. Building operators account for a small percentage of people in each building, but have a disproportionally high impact on energy use. Therefore, if they were to change their behaviours, they could dramatically reduce overall energy use. IEA DSM Task 24 and ACEEE’s Behavior and Human Dimensions of Energy Efficiency program helped the Sustainability Director of CHS to co-create a highly collaborative behaviour change field trial.
Culture Change_Social Media & Communications Surgery_23rd JanJulie's Bicycle
Social Media & Communications Surgery: A Practical Guide To Ethical Brand Building
Know your #hashtags from your @mentions?
The difference between Replying and Retweeting?
If you want to learn all about the potential and pitfalls of social media from the comfort of your desk, come and join this free and practical Webinar where Julie's Bicycle will help you develop your online presence and effectively communicate your brand and ethics.
Learn about different social media platforms (the rules and jargon!) and social media strategic planning, with lots of creative and colourful examples of how arts organisations and practitioners have utilised social media to communicate their environmental actions, campaigns, and good practice. Communicating your business values demonstrates transparency, builds trust and opens new contacts and conversations.
As an outcome of the Webinar, Julie's Bicycle will also help you to create your very own environmental policy and action plan, so that you can document, share and communicate your good practice and aspirations.
Julie’s Bicycle and BOP Consulting conducted the most comprehensive survey to date with leaders of creative and cultural organisations on environmental sustainability, and this report summarises the findings.
‘Sustaining Creativity’ is intending to deepen the creative community’s insights on climate change and
sustainability as requisite to a holistic view of cultural value.
The programme is our attempt to understand why
we don’t measure that value on scales that weigh natural capital, the risks of inaction, or creative invention for a sustainable future. What might our creative and cultural industries look like if they did? Where would they find inspiration, how would they be made and valued? How do the arts measure up now, to themselves and to the rest of the world? And would any of it make a difference? Over the next year we will attempt to answer these questions.
Arts Council England specialist advice: Cultural Buildings and VenuesJulie's Bicycle
A reminder of the environmental reporting requirements including how to add new data to the IG Tools, plus a special focus on : How to run a sustainable building for organisations who own and/or manage cultural buildings and venues, including museums.
Did you know that electricity use is one of the biggest sources of carbon dioxide emissions globally and in the UK?
Decarbonising electricity is a key measure for the UK to reach its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% by 2050. You can help hitting this target by investing in renewables, either through on-site technology or driving demand through procurement.
Read through the webinar presentation slides for further info, facts and resources.
Module 2.2: How to use the IG Tools: Environmental Reporting for Creative…Julie's Bicycle
Aim: This webinar will take you through the process of using the IG Tools in line with the Arts Council’s environmental reporting requirements.
The webinar will include:
- Introduction to the Arts Council’s environmental reporting and Julie’s Bicycle.
- What are the IG Tools?
- How can they benefit your organisation?
- Collecting data – how to ensure you have the information you need in the correct format.
- Creating your first IG Tool entry – step by step.
- Trouble shooting Q&A – your chance to ask the experts about any problems you are having with the environmental reporting process.
Module 4.1: Changing Light-bulbs or changing minds? The Case for Sustainab…Julie's Bicycle
Aim: This webinar explores the issues and implications of Arts Council England’s environmental reporting requirements and builds the case for cultural leadership on sustainability.
The webinar will include:
- Opening address by Alison Tickell, CEO of Julie’s Bicycle.
- Introduction to the Arts Council’s environmental reporting and Julie’s Bicycle.
- Key note and discussion from leading voices within the creative industries, David Buckland (Cape Farewell) and David Jubb (Battersea Arts Centre).
- Q&A.
Arts Council England Environmental Reporting - Communicating SuccessJulie's Bicycle
A reminder of the environmental reporting requirements including how to add new data to the IG Tools, plus a special focus on : Top tips on what you should be sharing with your stakeholders and how to do so effectively.
Take a look through the presentations from our Powering Change event held on 19th February 2016 at Tobacco Factory Theatres in Bristol.
The event featured guest speakers George Ferguson Mayor of Bristol, Ali Robertson Director at Tobacco Factory Theatres, Gary Topp from Bristol Green Capital Partnership, Alex Orme of Good Energy, Joon Lynn Goh Senior Producer at In Between Time, and Wren Aigaki-Lander Partner at Within People.
Webinar: Future Buildings (Arts Council England programme 2015/16) Julie's Bicycle
What does a sustainable building look like? How do you integrate environmental sustainability into building projects and applications for capital investment?
Julie’s Bicycle’s Fit for the Future Toolkit and webinar is designed to support organisations to overcome these hurdles and achieve significant environmental improvements in capital projects. It details how – through intelligent design, materials, energy efficiency, water management and ecological enhancement – arts organisations are beginning to realise the benefits of environmental action, from financial resilience to reputational benefits and audience development.
Looking towards COP21 in December, this Webinar highlights the key issues of climate change; makes the case for the impact culture can have on sustainability; outlines the tools, channels, messages and strategies you can use to develop your campaign and provides examples of successful communications campaigns.
Arts Council England and Julie's Bicycle Environmental Reporting Workshops 2013Julie's Bicycle
These are the slides from the workshops delivered by Julie's Bicycle in partnership with the Arts Council England during 2013 on the environmental reporting requirements. They cover the results from the first year of reporting (2012/13), case studies, two breakout sessions (Small is beautiful and Taking it to scale), learnings and the requirements and deadlines for the second year of reporting (2013/14).
A guide designed to support communications professionals and ‘green’ champions to communicate environmental activities and achievements effectively to a diverse range of stakeholders.
Arts Council England Environmental Reporting - Updating Policy and Action Pla...Julie's Bicycle
How to build on the policies and action plans you developed last year and incorporate new information and learnings, including the introduction of targets.
Culture Change_Social Media & Communications Surgery_23rd JanJulie's Bicycle
Social Media & Communications Surgery: A Practical Guide To Ethical Brand Building
Know your #hashtags from your @mentions?
The difference between Replying and Retweeting?
If you want to learn all about the potential and pitfalls of social media from the comfort of your desk, come and join this free and practical Webinar where Julie's Bicycle will help you develop your online presence and effectively communicate your brand and ethics.
Learn about different social media platforms (the rules and jargon!) and social media strategic planning, with lots of creative and colourful examples of how arts organisations and practitioners have utilised social media to communicate their environmental actions, campaigns, and good practice. Communicating your business values demonstrates transparency, builds trust and opens new contacts and conversations.
As an outcome of the Webinar, Julie's Bicycle will also help you to create your very own environmental policy and action plan, so that you can document, share and communicate your good practice and aspirations.
Julie’s Bicycle and BOP Consulting conducted the most comprehensive survey to date with leaders of creative and cultural organisations on environmental sustainability, and this report summarises the findings.
‘Sustaining Creativity’ is intending to deepen the creative community’s insights on climate change and
sustainability as requisite to a holistic view of cultural value.
The programme is our attempt to understand why
we don’t measure that value on scales that weigh natural capital, the risks of inaction, or creative invention for a sustainable future. What might our creative and cultural industries look like if they did? Where would they find inspiration, how would they be made and valued? How do the arts measure up now, to themselves and to the rest of the world? And would any of it make a difference? Over the next year we will attempt to answer these questions.
Arts Council England specialist advice: Cultural Buildings and VenuesJulie's Bicycle
A reminder of the environmental reporting requirements including how to add new data to the IG Tools, plus a special focus on : How to run a sustainable building for organisations who own and/or manage cultural buildings and venues, including museums.
Did you know that electricity use is one of the biggest sources of carbon dioxide emissions globally and in the UK?
Decarbonising electricity is a key measure for the UK to reach its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% by 2050. You can help hitting this target by investing in renewables, either through on-site technology or driving demand through procurement.
Read through the webinar presentation slides for further info, facts and resources.
Module 2.2: How to use the IG Tools: Environmental Reporting for Creative…Julie's Bicycle
Aim: This webinar will take you through the process of using the IG Tools in line with the Arts Council’s environmental reporting requirements.
The webinar will include:
- Introduction to the Arts Council’s environmental reporting and Julie’s Bicycle.
- What are the IG Tools?
- How can they benefit your organisation?
- Collecting data – how to ensure you have the information you need in the correct format.
- Creating your first IG Tool entry – step by step.
- Trouble shooting Q&A – your chance to ask the experts about any problems you are having with the environmental reporting process.
Module 4.1: Changing Light-bulbs or changing minds? The Case for Sustainab…Julie's Bicycle
Aim: This webinar explores the issues and implications of Arts Council England’s environmental reporting requirements and builds the case for cultural leadership on sustainability.
The webinar will include:
- Opening address by Alison Tickell, CEO of Julie’s Bicycle.
- Introduction to the Arts Council’s environmental reporting and Julie’s Bicycle.
- Key note and discussion from leading voices within the creative industries, David Buckland (Cape Farewell) and David Jubb (Battersea Arts Centre).
- Q&A.
Arts Council England Environmental Reporting - Communicating SuccessJulie's Bicycle
A reminder of the environmental reporting requirements including how to add new data to the IG Tools, plus a special focus on : Top tips on what you should be sharing with your stakeholders and how to do so effectively.
Take a look through the presentations from our Powering Change event held on 19th February 2016 at Tobacco Factory Theatres in Bristol.
The event featured guest speakers George Ferguson Mayor of Bristol, Ali Robertson Director at Tobacco Factory Theatres, Gary Topp from Bristol Green Capital Partnership, Alex Orme of Good Energy, Joon Lynn Goh Senior Producer at In Between Time, and Wren Aigaki-Lander Partner at Within People.
Webinar: Future Buildings (Arts Council England programme 2015/16) Julie's Bicycle
What does a sustainable building look like? How do you integrate environmental sustainability into building projects and applications for capital investment?
Julie’s Bicycle’s Fit for the Future Toolkit and webinar is designed to support organisations to overcome these hurdles and achieve significant environmental improvements in capital projects. It details how – through intelligent design, materials, energy efficiency, water management and ecological enhancement – arts organisations are beginning to realise the benefits of environmental action, from financial resilience to reputational benefits and audience development.
Looking towards COP21 in December, this Webinar highlights the key issues of climate change; makes the case for the impact culture can have on sustainability; outlines the tools, channels, messages and strategies you can use to develop your campaign and provides examples of successful communications campaigns.
Arts Council England and Julie's Bicycle Environmental Reporting Workshops 2013Julie's Bicycle
These are the slides from the workshops delivered by Julie's Bicycle in partnership with the Arts Council England during 2013 on the environmental reporting requirements. They cover the results from the first year of reporting (2012/13), case studies, two breakout sessions (Small is beautiful and Taking it to scale), learnings and the requirements and deadlines for the second year of reporting (2013/14).
A guide designed to support communications professionals and ‘green’ champions to communicate environmental activities and achievements effectively to a diverse range of stakeholders.
Arts Council England Environmental Reporting - Updating Policy and Action Pla...Julie's Bicycle
How to build on the policies and action plans you developed last year and incorporate new information and learnings, including the introduction of targets.
Culture Change: Behaviour change and audience engagementJulie's Bicycle
Top tips on how to engage your staff with sustainability and keep them motivated, and communicate your environmental commitments and initiatives to audiences.
The creative industries are experiencing a shift towards putting the environment at the heart of how we work, and it’s being driven by people power. This two-hour session will look at strategies for engaging key stakeholders with your environmental commitments and actions, from staff to audiences, to amplify the impact of your green initiatives.
Do you have an environmental policy that you’re struggling to implement? Are you scratching your head about how to bring down your audience travel emissions? Or perhaps you've never thought about how environmental sustainability might be relevant to your stakeholders at all? Then this webinar is for you!
The webinar will be relevant for practitioners and businesses across the creative industries, and will be facilitated by consultants from Julie's Bicycle.
We help Camden better:
Deliver its priorities in a way that is inclusive, outcome-focused and participative
Anticipate & respond to new strategic challenges & opportunities
Work collaboratively to deliver and embed change around Camden 2025 outcomes
We do this through better:
Prioritising what role we are best placed to play in supporting & leading change
Brokering support across Corporate Services and beyond to deliver priorities
Using the levers the council and our partners have to deliver change
Harnessing our different skills, knowledge & experiences to deliver change
Mobilising our partners & communities to tackle Camden 2025 challenges
Module 2.1: How to Create your Environmental Policy and Action Plan - Environ...Julie's Bicycle
Aim: This webinar will take you through the process of creating an environmental policy and action plan in line with the Arts Council’s environmental reporting requirements.
The webinar will include:
- Introduction to the Arts Council’s environmental reporting and Julie’s Bicycle – what is expected of you.
- What is an environmental policy and action plan?
- How can they benefit your organisation?
- Top tips for creating an environmental policy and action plan.
- What help is available?
- Trouble shooting Q&A – your chance to ask the experts about any problems you are having with the environmental reporting process.
Module 3.2: Planning, Engaging and Acting - Specialist Advice on Environmenta...Julie's Bicycle
Aim: This webinar provides practical guidance for organisations with 100 employees or more on complying with the Arts Council’s environmental reporting requirements.
The webinar will include:
-Introduction to the Arts Council’s environmental reporting and Julie’s Bicycle.
- Setting the scope: realistic targets and recruiting help from across your organisation.
- Using the IG Tools as a large organisation – dealing with large amounts of data.
- Creating an environmental policy and action plan for a large organisation – creating useful tools for use throughout your organisation.
- Industry case study.
- Trouble shooting Q&A – your chance to ask the experts about any problems you are having with the environmental reporting process.
In these slides accompanying an AXELOS webinar in March 2015, Sharon Mossman of Newcastle University discusses their journey through ITIL adoption.
You can read the full case study at: www.axelos.com/case-studies-and-white-papers/newcastle-university-it-service
SUBJECT: SOCIO EDUCATIONAL PROJECT
TUTOR: DR. MIGUEL PONCE
THEME: PART III. PROJECT EVALUATION
STUDENTS:
MONTESDEOCA BENITEZ DIANA PRISCILA
PACHACAMA SIMBAÑA DAYSI ALEXANDRA
Evaluation pal program monitoring and evaluation technologyCesToronto
In this session, Dr. Cugelman will discuss his work to develop an automated program monitoring and evaluation technology, called Evaluation Pal. He launched Evaluation Pal in 2011, then in 2012, pilot tested it for an evaluation of the Green Infrastructure Ontario Coalition which was submitted to the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Soon after, MaRS' Social Innovation Generation accepted it into their incubator program.
In this session, Dr. Cugelman will provide a tour of the tool, and use the Green Infrastructure Ontario case study to demonstrate how automated data collection can be used in the program evaluation process. This presentation will also provide an opportunity to discuss the challenges and opportunities of using technology to aid program evaluation.
Presentation slides from a session for the ARA Section for Business Records April 2015, understanding archive service accreditation for business archives
A presentation for an institution preparing itself for the 2018 ACODE Inter-institutional Benchmarking Summit, to be held on the 25-27 June at Griffith University in Brisbane. see also https://www.acode.edu.au
The Value Management SIG presented Chris Samson and Daniel Rahamim from London Underground who offered an insight to the organisational approach of implementing Lean principles in one of London Underground's major upgrade programmes.
Want to ensure everything you do adds value to your business? Want to make a real difference to business performance and customer satisfaction?
This challenge was taken up by London underground’s Sub Surface Upgrade Programme (SUP) 18 months ago amidst a time of cost savings, programme review and ever increasing expectations and scrutiny from our stakeholders and customers.
Webinar 3.3_Specialist webinar for Mpms and large multi venue or activity orgsJulie's Bicycle
The webinar Julie's Bicycle ran on the 24th April 2013 providing specialist advice to Mpms and large multi venue or activity organisations regarding their Arts Council England Environmental Reporting Requirements.
Business Innovation& CSR Masterclass | Dubai, Jan 31-Feb 2Wayne Dunn
I will be running a 3-day Masterclass in Business Innovation & CSR from January 31 to February 2nd 2016 in Dubai, UAE. The program is produced by 360 International but they have given us permission to offer CSR Training Institute Alumni and network members a limited time discount.
You are personally invited to register at a discounted rate (http://goo.gl/forms/CBI2wj2aYx here to register). You may share this invitation with others in your organization.
The program will bring together a global group leaders and practitioners for an intense experiential learning session. The masterclass will feature a pragmatic integration of theory and practice using lectures, videos, groupwork, case studies, role-playing scenarios. Innovation, value-creation and strategy considerations permeate the program.
Participants will leave with a set of tools and content knowledge that will enable them to immediately be more effective in their organizations and activities. A brochure on the program is attached along with background information on the CSR Training Institute.
Please contact me directly (wayne@csrtraininginstitute) if you have any questions or wish any additional information
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Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
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"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
4. More than environmental
• Energy efficiency refurb -> Improved comfort for
staff and visitors
• Energy efficiency refurb -> Increasing potential
use of venue spaces e.g. new hires
• Staff commuting -> Staff save money (carpooling)
or improve health (cycling, walking)
• Sourcing locally -> Reduces emissions and
benefits local economy
• Gardens for biodiversity -> Engaging staff,
improve well-being
• Improve staff cohesion, morale and loyalty
• Improve reputation and relationships within and
beyond sector
5. Arts and Culture
• Have an impact far
beyond their own
footprint
• Enable us to
understand complex
issues
• Have a role to play in
social change
6. Pilot goals
• Venue CEOs taken a leadership role
• Successful engagement of staff, boards, LAs, etc
• All venues taken action – from basic to more challenging
• Carbon baseline for all venues with data
• Environmental policies and action plans
• Shared understanding of who is doing what
• New channels of communication and cooperation created
• Online knowledge bank and community of best practice
• Catalysed a shift in organisational culture and behaviour
7. …and more?
• All venues signing up to the Sustainable
Development Charter?
• Piloting props/sets/costume sharing?
• Undertaking a sustainable production pilot?
• Pooling insights on venue energy profiles and sub-
metering systems?
8. Pilot timeplan
Webinars 1-to-1s Events
Sep Introduction (CEOs/Leads) World Stage Design 13th Sept
Oct Sustainable Production 2nd Oct
(Prod)
Energy & Waste (FMs) 16th Oct
Initial
support
Nov Initial
support
Creu Cymru Conference 6th Nov
Carbon Trust @ WMC 26th Nov
Dec Sustainability Comms 4th Dec
(Marketing and PR)
Jan Board/LA engagement
Feb Board/LA engagement
Mar Board/LA engagement
Apr Stage & Sustainability (Artistic)
8th April
May Eval. Future Thinking 13th May
Jun Eval.
9. Pilot partners
• Cynnal Cymru – Awarding funds from the Welsh
Government’s Support for Sustainable Living Scheme
• Creu Cymru – Pilot lead
– Emma Evans, general project coordinator
• Julie’s Bicycle – Environmental Sustainability
– Catherine Langabeer, project director
– Lucy Latham, project manager
– Luke Ramsay, project support
• Cardiff University – Social Sustainability & Evaluation
• Steering Group
10. Pilot resources
• Webinar slides and materials
• Julie’s Bicycle IG Tools for carbon audit snapshots
• Smeasure.com for energy and water monitoring
• Creu Cymru Sustainability Toolkit (launching Nov 6th)
• Carbon Trust audits (for 10 venues, Oct/Nov)
• One to one support from Julie’s Bicycle
• Your pilot peers
12. Your responsibilities
• Oversee development of policy and action plan
• Lead on staff engagement
• Support other key staff to:
– Attend their webinar and any relevant events
– Provide data for carbon footprinting
– Feed into the policy and action plan development
• Facilitate and contribute to board/LA engagement
• Communicate with pilot peers and other stakeholders
14. 1. Staff engagement – why?
• Technology won’t “save us” – we need behaviour change
• Encourage innovation and unlock staff potential
• Attract and retain talent - people want to feel good about
the organisation they work for
• Increase staff motivation - employees who feel valued will
be more motivated
• Enhance your reputation - employees can be the best
ambassadors for a company’s environmental reputation
15. Staff engagement actions
• Treat staff engagement on this new topic as a project that
needs its own management
• Explore how to involve staff in decision-making and action
• Incorporate environmental action and monitoring into your
organisational structure
• Define clear roles and responsibilities
• Provide the necessary support and/or training
• Ensure senior management and governing bodies are on
board – prepare to make the business case
16. Staff engagement first steps
• Get inspired – check out some of our recommended links
to animations, films, posters…..
• Join the “2 degrees” sustainability network’s free
employee engagement group
• Create an opportunity to introduce your staff to Creu
Cymru Emergence within the next month
• Identify what resources you need to “tell the story” – a
presentation, or video, that will inspire and excite
• Consider a staff sustainability skill survey to follow on from
the introduction of the topic
• Read the supporting material in the Toolkit
18. 2. Understanding & monitoring
Decide which activities you want to look at e.g.:
• Energy
• Waste
• Water
• Production
• Travel
• Procurement
Identify how often it is feasible and useful to monitor
your environmental impacts
19. Data sources
• Energy monitoring software, energy and water
bills, meters, waste invoices, business travel
records, procurement records
• For waste, ideally you want to understand what is
created where, total volumes and how they break
down
• If you are local authority owned, find out what
information might be available, whether any system
upgrades may improve information, or what
methodology is used to estimate bills
20. In some cases you may have qualitative rather than
quantitative information, e.g. levels of organic and
locally sourced food in catering or an overview of your
key suppliers and contractors. This can also be useful
to help you identify where you should focus your efforts.
21. Understanding & monitoring –
first steps
• Ensure your FM can make the October 16th webinar
(and you are welcome to join)
• Find out from staff what data you already gather that
has relevance to environmental impacts
• Decide which impacts you can include for the pilot
and how frequently it is feasible to monitor them
• Read the supporting material in the Toolkit
22. 3. Policies & action plans
An environmental policy is a broad,
overarching statement of your environmental
ambitions, which provides a framework for day-
to-day action.
An environmental action plan is a detailed
and specific document that defines: targets;
actions; responsibilities and deadlines for
achieving environmental improvement and
reducing environmental impacts.
23. Environmental policy
Your environmental policy should describe your:
• Motivation for action and level of ambition
• Type of organisation and main environmental impacts
• Compliance obligations
• Commitments
• Communications approach
• SIgnoff and review process
24. Environmental Action Plan
Your environmental action plan should:
• Define your objectives and targets
• Develop actions to address your objectives
• Make the actions SMART -
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and
Timely
• Explain what’s left out
• Identify how you will define, review, share and
communicate progress
25. Policies & plans – first steps
• Read the supporting material in the Toolkit
• This includes an annotated version of our Julie’s
Bicycle policy
• Share any actively used current policies and action
plans between pilot members
• Review sustainability compliances, awards and
standards and analyse what data they are
demanding and how they interact with each other
26.
27. Discussion
Key issues raised in the discussion were:
• How to engage really large staff numbers (eg 120+) especially
with long shift times and create a joined up approach. Think that
with such a large group we need management to set strong
principles and then let staff staff respond with their own
identified actions – to make it easy to manage. Will need a
patient approach – can’t do it all at once. (Chapter)
• Carbon Trust site visit has been useful – great they understood
arts buildings and identified opportunities straight away – it’s a
shame we couldn’t do more building investment during refurb in
2009 owing to financial constraints, but we’re interested to
revisit now. (Chapter)
• Finding that Local Authority can make it difficult to advance with
staff engagement as any initiative that requires investment is
dependent on LA support, this can slow green group activities.
Despite this, we have achieved a lot, including Green Dragon
Level 3. (St David’s Hall)
28. Discussion cntd.
• Using the lens of Sustainable Development has been a
really great tool to engage staff. Found that although at
first people didn’t have a good sense of what it meant,
once we started learning about it, and talking, we found it
is something we are doing all time – it’s been a great
framework for all our sustainability-related policies. Check
out the Sustainable Development Charter materials
(although note it is re-launching November 6th):
http://wales.gov.uk/topics/sustainabledevelopment/uksusd
ev/sdcharter/?lang=en (WMC)
• We are going to tender to get support for our
environmental approach and action plan as while we’ve
done some big things (e.g. solar panels), we haven’t done
everything, and staff are really busy. We need help to
prioritise. (Brycheiniog)
Editor's Notes
Start recording the webinar!
Environmental sustainability is a business issue, not just an ethical oneIt’s about risk managementWe will see more extreme weather as a result of climate change and not just in far off places – our arts infrastructure could be vulnerable to increased rainfall, flooding, higher temperatures, etc. Extreme weather, changing climate also has a knock on effect on commodities, on resource availability which can also affect the bottom line, and is contributing to the high levels of inflation we’ve been seeing in recent years – again it’s affecting communities, it has real social impacts right here, right now.Legislation such as the UK Climate Change Act and the upcoming Welsh Assembly Future Generations Bill, which will make sustainable development the central organising principle of the devolved public service in Wales already recognise this. Environmental considerations are already embedded in energy and waste regulations presenting increased costs but also opportunities if you reduce energy or increase renewables, or reduce landfill. Voluntary initiatives such as the Sustainable Development Charter (which WMC and Sherman are already signatory to) provide tools to think through the issue through a broader lens, and also realise reputational benefits from aligning with progressive organisations across many different sectors.
Sustainable development balances environment with social and economic – look for synergies
Move Sustainability Comms? Feedback is December will be really busy as it is pantoseason – and that late January will be better.
Steering Group includes Deborah Keyser, CC Director, Nic Young, former CC Chair and Riverfront Theatre, Newport, Sarah Ecob, of Venue Cymru, Rhodri Thomas and Sara Wynne-Pari from CynnalCymru.
These are all provided for free – contact Julie’s Bicycle for more information.The CreuCymrumew website members area will support sharing between members, and will be launched in October, hopefully.
For example, Battersea Arts Centre use project management software called “Teamwork” to manage their environmental policy and action plan development and implementation.
Does the CreuCymru Emergence pilot group want to work on some of this together?
Posters from Do the Green Thing and The Carbon Trust
We are going to focus on energy and waste (e.g. webinar for FMs), but as some of you might not have much control over this, make sure you identify areas where you can make a difference now, and what might have to wait for a while.
For those who are currently undertaking the free Carbon Trust audits, you will already be addressing these questions. For the rest we will be picking this up with you in your 1 to 1s.
This is an excerpt from the annotated version of our policy – shared in the Toolkit.