CON Green Team is Green Office Certified!

The ECU Sustainability Program is happy to announce the most recent office to earn the Green Office Certification: ECU’s College of Nursing (CON) Green Team. Our Green Office Certification is earned through participants actively making efforts to improve sustainability in their lives and workspace. The Sustainability Program provides a credit worksheet for guidance through this process. Through their efforts to embrace sustainability, meet with representatives from ECU’s Sustainability Program, and fill out their credit worksheet, the CON Green Team is Green Office Certified!

Before Starting

Before starting the program, offices need to designate a primary contact person and obtain commitment signatures from 75% of their staff. We also require offices to set up an information center (like a bulletin board or file in Teams) with sustainability materials provided and contact the Sustainability Outreach Specialist to schedule their energy and waste audits. We can also do a presentation for offices before starting to provide information and encourage participation.

The CON was a unique situation because there are so many offices and departments within it, so the Green Team led by example and pursued the Green Office Certification. They accomplished these prerequisites after we presented to various CON representatives and were enthusiastic to get involved. Even before working with ECU Sustainability, the Green Team made efforts to be a more sustainable workplace and influence their colleagues to be more environmentally conscious. The participants already recycled and were generally informed about materials recycled on campus. They already strove to reduce their waste, educate themselves on sustainability in their everyday lives, and enthusiastically learned about ways they could continue their sustainability journey.

One initiative that the Green Team hosted was a plant promotion contest within the CON. Plants are a great way to naturally filter air indoors, help boost productivity, and help the planet by reducing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.

Getting Certified

Because the Green Team was already aware and making an effort as a group, they scored high on the initial overview of their credit worksheet and just needed guidance with a few things. ECU Sustainability was able to provide them with deskside recycle bins that they also bring with them when meeting or presenting in a space where they normally don’t work.

They also provide reusable towels in the CON second-floor break room as an alternative to paper towels.

Congratulations CON Green Team!

We enjoyed working with this enthusiastic team from the CON to make ECU a greener campus. If you have questions or are interested in joining the CON Green Team, please reach out!

If you have questions or are interested in pursuing the Green Office Certification for your office, feel free to contact ECU Sustainability at foxki23@ecu.edu or 252-328-6652.