2010-2011 Green Impact Awards

This was the third year of Green Impact at the University of Bristol. We were the first university to do Green Impact and were  one of 35 universities running Green Impact Awards this year.

In 2010/11 we  tried to keep changes to a minimum we added one criteria to bronze and silver, as always raised the bar a little. We slightly increased the score for bronze plus and silver. We added criteria for sustainable food and health and well being (teaming up with the Sport, Exercise and Health team).

Award levels remained the same, working towards, bronze, bronze plus and silver but you could achieve a gold level by getting 500 points as this was not a competitive award anymore. There were also 3 platinum awards based on the highest scoring departments and an overall winner.

The biggest change for that year was that the workbook was now an on line workbook .

Please find the Best practice portfolio for 2009/10 here.

April 2011 Green Impact Newsletter

Award Levels

• Working Towards – start doing any of the criteria even if it’s only a few;
• Bronze – complete all the Bronze Criteria;
• Bronze Plus – complete all the Bronze Criteria. Also do an additional number of Silver Criteria to total up to 30 points;
• Silver – complete all Bronze and Silver Criteria and then do an additional number of bonus criteria to get to another 170 points;
• Gold – complete all Bronze and Silver Criteria and get an overall total of 500 points;
• Platinum – awarded to the 3 departments who get the highest scores. One of which will be awarded overall winner.

Green Impact Awards 2010/011 winners announced

The University has announced the winners of its annual Green Impact Awards at a ceremony in the Victoria Rooms celebrating the hard work teams have put into greening their departments. 

Hosted by Professor David Clarke, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, and attended by staff and students from across the University, teams were presented with awards made either from recycled windscreens or glass bottles.  

The three top teams gaining ‘Platinum awards’ were Procurement, Space and Asset Management and Estates Administration, Hospitality and Dorothy Hodgkin Building.

The overall winner prize went to Procurement, Space and Asset Management and Estates Administration’ in recognition of gaining over 680 points.

Other awards went to 5 teams for achieving Gold, 4 teams for Silver, 11 for the new Bronze Plus award, 2 for Bronze and 3 teams for ‘Working Towards’ Green Impact.

Special Awards, for the additional actions that teams took, included ‘innovation’ and ‘getting students involved in the scheme’. These teams received an additional prize of a food hamper from the student run BUST Food Coop. Awards were given for actions such as establishing a car share system developed through an online course booking software and running a clothes swap event raising money for a local charity.

Martin Wiles Head of Sustainability said ‘Green Impact grows from strength to strength each year and this year is no different. We had a strong showing this year from laboratory based departments which I hope to build on next year. I also want to build on the work students are doing on sustainability and link that to Green Impact. Well done to everybody who got involved’.

Green Impact Awards 2010-2011

The Award Winners

Green Impact Sponsors 2010-2011

This year we have been very lucky to receive sponsorship from the companies noted below, so a very big thank you to them: