Follow
Subscribe for weekly updates straight to your inbox.
Join thousands of other workplace professionals to receive regular updates and access premium content
Featured
-
Is change your friend or your enemy?
-
Two thirds of those working from home suspect their employer thinks they are less productive
-
The raging truth about burnout
-
Four in ten people would take unpaid leave to get more time off
-
Hybrid working now part of life at majority of organisations, but will it last?
-
People become chameleons to fit in with strong workplace culture
-
Physical activity could boost UK economy by up to £17 billion
March 8, 2013
Video: The greening of the workplace should begin with individual behaviour
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Environment, Facilities management, Lighting, Workplace design
[embedplusvideo height=”160″ width=”225″ standard=”https://www.youtube.com/v/audakxABYUc?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=audakxABYUc&width=290&height=191&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=0&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep9359″ /]
There is an understandable temptation when we consider the ways in which we might green our buildings and organisations that we focus primarily on designed and engineered solutions. But as this blog on Greenbiz points out, we can achieve a great deal by looking at the behaviour of individuals. It is a point made in an entertaining way by my favourite TED Talk of all time, delivered by Rory Sutherland (above). It’s fair to say that if he were to consider ways in which to change the behaviour of individuals, the printed note above the photocopier and the label on the light switch wouldn’t display enough innovative thought for him.