How green is your office?

Harvard Education has a green office sustainability project where the levels of achievement are graded by leaves. Leaf One is the easy level where you can do the obvious. The site offers you a PowerPoint for each level and some explanations as to how they have done it so that you can follow their lead and then pass it forward! I guess my clean and green week at school with the Clear , Cull and Clean motto has led us to the achievement of Leaf One. At the end of this week we have achieved so much and can see our way clear to the next step because we dared to confront the past and deal with it. We have to move on and let go the old resources. In a week we have reclaimed plenty of space. The office is so much tidier and lighter and we have been talking about the future. We have found some great treasures which were lost in the piles and piles of old resources. There also has been a natural flow of co operation, inspiration and organisation which has come from it just from sorting, throwing things out, recycling and thinking about how we can become more digital. It is , after all, the digital age. My hands have been black with dust and dirt, our students have seen us sort and clear and I have noticed some of them have had a locker sort out too. Since we have dared to clear then all the old resources which we have decided to keep for now are in one spot and can be easily removed and recycled when we have the digital replacements and avenues. As we have gone through the week then others have come on board and shared what they know and what they can offer so that we can move ourselves out of the past and into 2011…nearly 2012. I am going to look at the rest of the Harvard leaves because that might fast track me to where I want to be. They have done the field work for me. I can say though that just by tackling this clear, cull and clean it has generated plenty of momentum and regeneration and opened up a clear path forward.