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Green Office Week 2011

What’s happening each day of Green Office Week?

Green Office Week (GOW) is an action-packed week full of fun and simple ideas to make your office greener. See what's happening each day and then find ways you can fit these environmental ideas into your own work place. You can make a difference to the environment by making a few small changes. We should all be doing what we can 52 weeks of the year. You could pick any week of the year to be your own company Green Office week and use our daily themes.

You can make a difference to the environment by making a few small changes.  

Act on Energy

Encourage measures to reduce energy consumption in your company.


Act on Transport

Encourage measures to reduce your company's environmental impact through travel.

Act on Waste

Encourage the 3Rs: reduce/reuse/recycle and benefit from the cost-reductions.


Act on Purchasing

Encourage a review of purchasing habits and switching to eco-friendly office products.

Act on Opportunity

Everyone that took part got that Friday feeling by sharing their successes with colleagues, the media and others involved in GOW. It was a celebration of UK officers being greener.