How To Guide - Education and awareness
A crucial part of reaching sustainability targets is formulating strategies to achieve Community goals, so that everyone on campus is contributing to the endeavour with sustainable practices. It may be helpful to reference Step 2, as there may be considerable overlap with your ideas for integrating sustainability into the campus community. This is the last step for creating an Environmental Management Plan (EMP).
- Establish annual reporting to encourage accountability and transparency
- Distribute information about energy use, water consumption, waste reduction, etc.
- Advertise sustainability initiatives on campus
- Set up direct access to hardcopy and electronic resources - posters, websites, published papers, email newsletters
- Help to organize community and campus activities and events
- Include sustainability briefings in induction programs
- Arrange formal education programs for staff
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The steps above are best seen not as linear but as the first part of a continuous cycle of testing initial goals and strategies, then assessing progress towards achieving those goals, and finally improving on strategies for reaching those goals and/or updating targets to be more reasonable or more ambitious, depending on the current level of success. Funding limitations and needs will also need to be continuously reassessed.
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