CiCS Director: Environmental Hero

At the University's Green Impact Awards there was an award for Environmental Hero - and Dr Christine Sexton, the Director of CiCS won it!

The nomination included "your leadership in authorising and promoting green initiatives, your willingness to lead by example, and the sheer importance of the fact that you frequently make your support clear during green discussions".

Despite all the nice things that were said in the nomination, it's not just for CiCS, but all of the good University-wide initiatives that have come from the department.

Our "Say Goodbye to Standby" campaign encouraging all staff and students to turn off PCs when off not in use was a great success, and our environmental print review and subsequent print audits are also proving successful in reducing print, and making it more efficient and environmentally friendly.

The first print review we did for example revealed that we used only 34% of recycled paper - our own print service only used 5.7%. Now that figure is up to 98% use of environmentally preferable paper.