Welcome to
Green Impact

Be part of the change

Green Impact is a change and engagement program where individuals get into teams and work together to undertake a diverse range of sustainability actions. These actions cover all areas of sustainability across campus life – i.e. travel, engagement waste, health, and wellbeing etc. The Green Impact programme uses friendly competition to motivate teams.

  • 14+ Universities in Australia & New Zealand

  • 8 Universities joined Green Impact supported by ACTS

  • ACTS partnered with NUS to become the delivery partner for Green Impact in Australia and New Zealand

  • The program has been a massive success in the UK and was recognised with the UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development

  • Developed by the National Union of Students (NUS) in the United Kingdom

How does it work?

Green Impact provides a framework, bespoke to your university, to empower staff and students to work together and make positive social, environmental and economic differences on a local level.

After completing an online toolkit of actions tailored to your institution, Green Impact rewards the work of your staff and students with a year-end award ceremony to recognise the action taken over the academic year.

Green Impact allows you to drive forward the cutting edge of sustainability through empowering staff and students. In the UK, students’ unions and their parent institutions are working together to take action on education for sustainable development, reverse the decline of pollinating insects, develop their own socially responsible business models, and much more.

This yield benefits far beyond environmental responsibility. Green Impact brings new people together; it develops more streamlined ways of working and makes huge cuts to energy bills. It also develops essential employability skills and knowledge among students, instilling values which last beyond their time in education. More than that, it creates stronger links on campus between students and staff, and builds relationships with the local community.

Whether your university is new to sustainability or doing lots of work already, Green Impact is the perfect way to bring all your sustainability initiatives together, maximising their collective impact.

Together, bottom-up greening action can make a huge difference.

Green Impact globally

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1 Canadian University; working to deliver across the USA
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Universities across Europe last year
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Universities & Colleges
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Businesses, hospitals & councils
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Universities in Australasia and counting!

Benefits of Green Impact

Sustainability teams

Create a bottom-up community of change makers

Implement sustainability policies and plans throughout the whole organisation

Set up communication channels to people in all departments

Achieve cost reductions and CO2 savings through behaviour change

Students

Enhance their personal competencies and gain valuable employability skills

Learn how to implement sustainability within an organisation

Feel empowered to do something they are passionate about

Engage with their university or college in a new way

Staff

Experience the fun of working in a team and be part of a wider network

Develop the skillset to create effective change at work

Feel empowered to do something they are passionate about

Have more clarity of what actions to take and have those efforts recognised

Benefits of our support

Access to the online toolkit

Knowledge transfer from 10 years of Green Impact experience at over 350 organisations

Professional advice and training through our team

Exchanges and peer-learning with other participating organisations

Your investment

Capacity to dedicate 1 or 2 people (staff, students or interns) to implement the program, investing 4–8 hours per week.

Creativity and energy to get the best out of the program.

A willingness across the organisation to commit to the program and work towards making it a success.

ACTS members receive a discounted rate to participate (costs cover hosting of the online toolkit, on-site and remote support, e.g. training, working meetings and implementation support). Get in touch today to learn about our rates.