Environmental Awareness

By the end

What you'll build

• Describe how everyday work activities create environmental impact, directly and through suppliers
• Apply the waste hierarchy to a specific decision in your own workplace
• Reduce avoidable energy and material use in the areas you control
• Question a supplier's environmental claim and identify weak or unverifiable statements
• Propose a small environmental improvement with a clear before-and-after measure

Curriculum

What's inside

6 modules · 35 lessons

1. 01

   Why environmental impact reaches your desk

   6 lessons
   • Where a normal working day touches the environment
   • Emissions, waste, water and materials in plain terms
   • Direct impact and supply-chain impact
   • Regulation, customers and rising expectations
   • What the organisation has committed to, and what that asks of you
   • + 1 more lesson
2. 02

   Energy and emissions at work

   6 lessons
   • Reducing energy use in the spaces and systems you control
   • Heating, cooling and equipment left running
   • Digital footprint: stored data, meetings and devices
   • Travel choices and the alternatives worth trying first
   • Measuring before claiming a reduction
   • + 1 more lesson
3. 03

   Waste and materials

   6 lessons
   • Applying the waste hierarchy to a real workplace decision
   • Segregating waste so it is actually recycled
   • Single-use items and practical substitutes
   • Electronic waste and secure disposal
   • Reuse, repair and redeployment of equipment
   • + 1 more lesson
4. 04

   Procurement and the supply chain

   6 lessons
   • Asking better environmental questions of a supplier
   • Reading an environmental claim critically
   • Signals that a claim is marketing rather than measurement
   • Packaging and delivery choices
   • Lifetime cost and end-of-life planning
   • + 1 more lesson
5. 05

   Turning awareness into action

   6 lessons
   • Turning an observation into a proposal your team will accept
   • Running a small workplace improvement end to end
   • Reporting an environmental incident or spill to the right team
   • Working with facilities and site teams
   • Sharing results honestly, including what did not work
   • + 1 more lesson
6. 06

   Practice and check

   5 lessons
   • Match the environmental term to what it actually meansmatch pairs
   • Turn a wasteful habit into a change that stickssequence order
   • Fill the gap: environmental decisions at workfill blank
   • The office refitscenario
   • Course quizquiz

The shape of it

How this course works