Four Stars from Creative Green
We’re delighted to have been awarded four stars from Julie’s Bicycle Creative Green reporting for our Sustainability Policy and activities in 2016-17. We were particularly pleased to have achieved 39/40 for our commitment and 21/25 for our understanding.
For those who aren’t familiar, Creative Green is a certification from Julie’s Bicycle which provides organisations with a systematic, achievable and inspiring approach to environmental sustainability. It celebrates environmental success and shines a light on areas for improvement, and gives your organisation a star rating from 1 to 5.
What’s exciting about receiving a detailed report from Julie’s Bicycle is that it guides us for change in the coming year. We’re already making alterations to our Sustainability Policy to align it with the UK government’s Climate Change Act and the Paris Agreement to keep global temperatures at well below 2 degrees of warming. We’ve moved our electrical and gas supply to Ecotricity (100% green electricity and frack-free green gas) and we’re starting an energy management group (supported by an energy management strategy!), who will meet monthly to dig into our half hourly gas and electricity data to spot anomalies and make changes to reduce usage wherever possible.
Getting our annual report is a brilliant moment for our organisation to take stock of all the great work we’ve done so far, but it is also a moment to refocus our sustainable thinking and make exciting plans for the future. We’re already looking ahead to our next staff and audience engagement campaign (planning sessions are in the diary – watch this space).
If you’ve got any suggestions on how we can be more sustainable, do let us know @LyricHammer
And you can read our full Creative Green four star report here.