Green Office Week
Green Office Week is a British annual awareness week that encourages workers across the UK to make small changes to their working habits to positively impact the environment. The week raises awareness of key green issues, providing office workers with the practical advice, tools and help they need to create a more sustainable way of working. The week has activities designed to promote the idea of greener working practices. These have included Q&A seminars and interactive digital tools. The week takes place around May each year. History. The first Green Office Week was launched in 2009, in  response to research showing that UK employees felt they were being held back from being environmentally friendly at work because of a lack of empowerment and facilities. The week set out to ‘champion change’ by raising awareness of the issues workers identified as holding them back from environmentally friendly working. Since 2009, the week has been held on an annual basis, with organisations, businesses and local councils using the week as a platform to encourage behaviour change. What happens during Green Office Week. During the week, there is a different focus each day: More information can be found about the  week at the Green Office Week site. Green Offices for Dummies. As part of Green Office Week, a specially commissioned guide was produced in partnership with the worldwide reference series For "Dummies". "Green Offices for Dummies" covers a range of practical ways that workers can implement more sustainable working practices. The guide contains a number of case studies that look at the businesses case for becoming environmentally friendlier. Eco-bikes. Throughout the week eco-bikes visit cities across the UK. They will be around major transport links including train and tube stations during rush hour and in the city centre  at lunchtimes. Office workers will be able to get a copy of Green Offices for Dummies Guides. The bikes will be in the following cities:- Results of the 2010 national survey with YouGov. At the start of 2010 Avery conducted a national environment survey with YouGov to find out office workers’ views on helping the environment. These results will be published during Green Office Week.