Step Four: Selecting & Planning a Programme

Remember all the data you gathered in step one?  Well, it’s time to take it out for a closer look. From this data, the Green Team can select specific target areas.

Prioritising

After identifying the key activities, the team will need to decide which activity to target first. One way to prioritise your activities is to establish selection criteria and then allow the team to rank the various activities. The following are examples of selection criteria to consider:

1. Which resources can be used more efficiently?
2. How and who will conduct a waste audit and an audit of water and energy consumption for discussion at the green team?.
3. How will we communicate messages to staff in order to influence and change their behaviour?
4. How can we review resource intensive processes or practices?
5. Can we review practices that utilise hazardous materials.
6. What format will water and energy conservation programmes take?
7. If there are multiple tenants what is the best method of communicating with them?

You will probably want to add criteria of your own that relate to your particular office, building or facility.