Green Impact: staff-led sustainability at LSE Every year at LSE, staff are invited to take part in Green Impact, a national project which encourages colleagues to team up and undertake sustainability actions in their workplace. This year, two of the most successful Green Impact teams were from the Student Marketing and Recruitment department and the LSE Careers Service. Nazia Taznim and Beth Wilson were among the participants. Here’s how they helped to transform sustainability practices at LSE. Nazia Taznim, Student Marketing and Recruitment Student Marketing and Recruitment have taken part in Green Impact for the past few years. It has been a great way to involve the whole department in sustainable and green practices in the office and in our work, which is why we got involved again this year! As part of Green Impact, one of the tasks involved creating a project that encompassed engagement with sustainability. Our team were already working on a few ideas and so we thought it would be great to include them in our Green Impact project and measure its engagement and impact on prospective students and related stakeholders. The first aspect of our project involved measuring the amount of carbon emissions and paper reduced from our new undergraduate prospectus, which reduced in size in comparison to last year’s. The results were exciting! We found the reduction in size resulted in a 78.62% reduction in paper used and an 89.27% reduction in carbon emitted per prospectus.
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