| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 76.93 |
| Liaison | Ezra Small |
| Submission Date | March 6, 2020 |
University of Massachusetts Amherst
EN-7: Employee Educators Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.96 / 3.00 |
Nathanael
Schildbach Marketing Manager University Relations |
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Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
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The Green Office Program encourages and facilitates energy and waste reduction practices in offices across campus.
UMass Amherst currently has over 85 offices (and counting) that participate in the Green Office Program. Find the full list of offices working to be more sustainable here.
How Does It Work?
The offices that choose to participate in the program work to complete requirements based on a five-level scale: bronze, silver, gold, green and evergreen. Each level is based off of seven topics: energy, waste and recycling, kitchens, bathrooms, travel, purchasing and involvement, which outline more sustainable office behaviors and operations. Completion of the program occurs once an office fulfills the criteria for the “evergreen” level. Offices will need to renew their certifications to maintain their "evergreen" standing every semester.
Our Sustainability Fellows (students) work individually with an Eco-Leader (a role assigned to a staff member in the office) to devise a plan customized to meet the office’s needs. The system allows for a friendly competition between offices to see who can reach the evergreen certification. Recognition is rewarded for every level completed with a congratulatory certificate.
Scoring for certification for v2.1 (Launched January, 2018) is as follows:
Bronze: 11+
Silver: 16+
Gold: 21+
Green: 26+
Evergreen: Offices are eligible for Evergreen status if they attain the following:
They maintain green certification for at least two semesters.
Earn a minimum of 5 innovation credits.
(Prior to Fall 2018) Recruit another office to the program.
(Post Fall 2018) Share a weekly sustainability tip, sustainability news article, or something that your office is doing to promote sustainability with the members of your office.
A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):
All offices and in turn all faculty and staff are the target audience of the Green Office Program.
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In spring 2018, the Office of Equity and Inclusion and Workplace Learning and Development launched the campus climate ambassadors program. Climate ambassadors receive several hours of training in order to facilitate one-hour long focus group conversations —called climate conversations— with a small group of campus participants with the potential for follow-up lunch conversations with the same group. These ambassadors included undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and staff, and seek to incorporate the many voices that make up the UMass fabric in a conversation around campus climate.
A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (2nd program):
All students, faculty and staff are invited to be a part of the climate conversations on campus.
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