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Bleed Blue, Work Green with Green Workplace Certification, which allows employees to reduce the environmental footprint of their workplace while cultivating community around sustainability. This program guides employees to be sustainability leaders in their department and provides the resources necessary to green your workplace.
What is a Green Workplace?
The Duke Office of Climate and Sustainability offers a Qualtrics-based checklist of items (PDF Version) to certify a workplace. In order to receive Green Workplace Certification your team must achieve at least 39 of 49 total checklist items. If a certain requirement is not applicable, please provide a comment. We appreciate your time and support in completing this checklist to ultimately lessen the footprint of the Duke community and our operations.
Forming a Green Team
Sustainability is more fun (and effective) when it's driven collaboratively. Connect with the team you work with to help evaluate the existing sustainability in your department and brainstorm new sustainability practices. While there is no requirement to form a green team in order to receive green workplace certification, many offices find this community useful and rewarding to bring together staff who are interested in advancing sustainability in your workplace.