iiE Staff Engagement: Carbon Conversations

iiE Staff Engagement: Carbon Conversations

iiE members have a unique opportunity to help trial a free staff engagement course through Carbon Conversations, a six part course looking at the ways in which individuals and groups can reduce their carbon consumption. The course looks at exploring individual and organisational level carbon footprints, how to reduce them and how this exploration affects how we feel about the changes that are needed. People who go through this course, on average, reduce their annual carbon footprint by over three tones of CO₂.

Session 1 (22 Sep): Looking for a Low Carbon Future Sharing current understanding and knowledge of climate change issues, getting to know each other, our views and feelings.

Session 2 (TBD): Energy Assessing our environments, what makes them comfortable and how can they be more energy efficient. This includes individual’s home environments as well as the workplace setting.

Session 3 (TBD): Travel and Transport Discussing the carbon linked to our travel behaviours. This will include business travel as well as individual travel plans.

Session 4 (TBD): Food and Water Examining where food comes from, how it is produced, processed, packaged and then transported. Consider the water used to produce different products as well as our general water usage.

Session 5 (TBD): Consumption and Waste Looking at the relationship between consumption and waste and what we can do to minimise the impact, reducing incoming resources and outgoing waste, and maximising the recovery and reuse of any outgoing materials.

Session 6 (TBD):  Talking with Colleagues What next, how to take this new found knowledge forward and building skills for better conversations and engagement.

The course will run once a month for six months over a long lunch period.. To book the first session, email info@iie.uk.com