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Virginia Cinquemani is the founder and director of Green Gorilla Consultants Ltd (www.thegreengorilla.co.uk), a unique training and coaching company focusing exclusively on empowering sustainability professionals to become the most confident and assertive version of themselves, and to successfully accomplish their sustainability projects even when their stakeholders think sustainability is a waste of time and money! Virginia is a qualified architect, project manager, BREEAM AP, ISO14001 Lead Auditor and Practitioner Coach, with a lifelong passion for sustainability. She is the author of SustainABLE: How to Find Success as a Sustainability Professional in a Rapidly Changing World, a practical guide for those that have a passion for sustainability but cannot make an impact. Virginia is also an Assistant Lecturer in Sustainability and Environmental Management at Coventry University. During her previous long career at BRE, Virginia was the author of Integrating BREEAM throughout the Design Process (the best-selling publication that for the first time helped assessors tackle BREEAM assessments strategically), and of BREEAM Healthcare (on behalf of the NHS) and BREEAM Higher Education (on behalf of AUDE and HEFCE); additionally, she managed the BRE Innovation Park and the BRE Academy membership scheme. Virginia's book: https://www.thegreengorilla.co.uk/sustainable-the-book More from Virginia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/virginiacinquemani/ 1:30 Introduction 3:20 How do you define sustainability?  16:38 How do you sell sustainability? 22:37 Effective Communication  25:07 Sustainable  - Virginia Cinquemani's latest book 

Virginia is a qualified architect, project manager, BREEAM AP and ISO14001 Lead Auditor, with a lifelong passion for sustainability. She is the author of SustainABLE: How to Find Success as a Sustainability Professional in a Rapidly Changing World, a practical guide for those that have a passion for sustainability but cannot make an impact.Virginia is also an Assistant Lecturer in Sustainability and Environmental Management at Coventry University.During her previous long career at BRE, Virginia was the author of Integrating BREEAM throughout the Design Process (the best selling publication that for the first time helped assessors tackle BREEAM assessments strategically), and of BREEAM Healthcare (on behalf of the NHS) and BREEAM Higher Education (on behalf of AUDE and HEFCE); additionally, she managed the BRE Innovation Park and the BRE Academy membership scheme.Virginia is the founder and director of Green Gorilla Consultants Ltd (www.thegreengorilla.co.uk), a unique training and coaching company focusing exclusively on empowering sustainability professionals to become the most confident and assertive version of themselves, and to successfully accomplish their sustainability projects even when their stakeholders think sustainability is a waste of time and money!Episode Links Green Gorilla (Virginia's Company) - https://thegreengorilla.co.uk/BRE - https://www.bregroup.com/BREAM - Sustainability assessment - https://www.breeam.com/ SustainABLE (Book) - https://thegreengorilla.co.uk/sustainable-the-bookDeep Work (Cal Newport) - https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Cal-Newport/Deep-Work--Rules-for-Focused-Success-in-a-Distracted-WorldDon't Look Up - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11286314/The Future We Choose (Christiana Figueres) - https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Christiana-Figueres/The-Future-We-ChooseFour Thousand Weeks - https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Oliver-Burkeman/Four-Thousand-Weeks--The-smash-hit-Sunday-Times-bestselle/25942066Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/buildingsustainability)

In this session, LSBU's Estates team will examine LSBU's carbon reduction journey relatingto scope 1 & 2 emissions since 2010. In 2010, in consultation with HEFCE, universities were asked to agreereductions in Scope 1 & 2 carbon emissions. LSBU pledged to reduce our emissions by 34% by 2020 basedupon a 2010 baseline of 11,694 tCO2. To achieve this, LSBU has reduced both its electricity and gas consumptions to levels which enabled us to achieve this target by August 2017. This success has continued, with current level of carbon reduction being 54%. On the 27th June 2019, the UK became the first major economy in the world to pass laws to end its contribution to global warming by 2050. This will require the UK to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. Going forward this target of zero emissions will prove very challenging as this also includes scope 3 emissions. Join us as we share our details about how we achieved our results, discuss our working partnerships with internal and external stakeholders and consider some of the challenges LSBU and other institutions facewe face as we move forward into the next phase of this ambitious but crucial target. Session leads: Chris Barnes, Maintenance and Energy Manager, Estates & Academic Environment, LSBU.

This episode is a of a recorded session I ran with Nickala Torkington, as part of Flourish Together's week long series of sessions for International Women's Day this year (2021).Nickala invited to me talk about this topic "putting the profit back in to non-profit" after a post I shared on facebook a few months back and subsequent conversations we had from it.  If you've been listening to my podcast for a while you will know how important I believe it is we re-evaluate and define what non-profit really means as social enterprises. And in this episode I explain it all, as well as discuss lots of other issues and questions that have arisen as a result of covid-19 over the past 12 months, for many social enterprises. This is a different type of episode and brings insights not only from myself and Nickala but also some of the social entrepreneurs who attended the event and contributed their stories and experiences too. About Nickala & FlourishNickala Torkington is co-Founder & Director of Flourish Together CIC.  She has worked in the social enterprise support sector for over 15 years. She has directly coached and supported over 1000 social entrepreneurs to develop social projects, enterprises and organisations. She has worked regionally and nationally including roles at UnLtd – The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, Blackburne House and alongside HEFCE with some of the most pioneering universities in the UK and internationally, to enable them to innovate, resource and build ecosystems of support to further social innovation and enterprise activities. A social business consultant for 5 years she is trained in Social Value Measurement. She is recognised in the WISE100 list as one of the leading women in social enterprise in the UK. Flourish Together CIC is a thriving peer network and social venture development consultancy that provides support, investment, learning opportunities, and specialist research and consultancy, to enable women change-makers to flourish. We provide an ecosystem of support through peer learning, mentoring, coaching and seed investment. To date over 600 changemakers have benefited from our support.We are a ‘Pay it forward' consultancy which invests its surplus resources in growing the impact and supporting the economic empowerment of women changemakers locally and globally. If you're a social enterprise in the North West of England you should definitely join the Flourish Network and find out about their latest events, training and support. 

A key element of Government efficiency review is the development of shared services to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of public services. While this is not mandatory in higher education, there are opportunities there.

This presentation will provide a general update on the development of the Research Excellence Framework (REF), and focus on the REF pilot exercise which is developing and testing methods for producing bibliometric indicators of research quality.

Welcome to the Towards Low Carbon ICT conference at Oxford.

Why Oxford University must respond to the challenge.

Greening the full lifecycle - going the extra mile.