School Eco-audits
3 Acorns Eco-audits have eco-audited a range of
primary and secondary schools across
Britain.
Our school eco-audits will not only help you demonstrate good environmental practice
in how your school is run but also provide a great opportunity to teach and inspire
students to start eco-auditing their own family's home and lifestyles.
3 Acorns delivered a programme of school eco-audits for the Specialist Schools Academies
Trust.
Schools qualify for our special school rates. Prices depend on size and complexity
of the school or college.
Please contact us for a quote.
Some schools have had their eco-audits funded by their local authorities, as a demonstration
and learning opportunity that can be applied to other local schools in the area.
What do our school eco-audits include:
A school eco-audit includes the assessment of a school's current environmental performance
and the production of a plan for its improvement.
It can include:
- Meeting with school management
- Attendance at a staff-meeting to explain the process and to include employee input
and suggestions
- Site walkabout with person responsible for facilities management
- One-to-one meetings with any identified key decision makers such as the school's
bursar or whoever is responsible for purchasing and HR
- A comprehensive, detailed electronic report detailing where your school already has
good environmental practice in place and a list of recommendations on how to improve
- Presentation/ Q&A at school assembly (more appropriate for secondary schools)
- Workshop with students
- Follow-up visit after one year
- Use of the 3 Acorns Eco-Audited Logo
Our approach is friendly, accessible and down to earth. We aim to ensure that the
process fits in with your particular school's or college's culture.
Areas covered by the Eco-Audit can include:
- Heating
- Thermal Imaging
- Electricity Use
- Waste/Recycling
- Purchasing Policies
- Management Systems
- Water Use
- Transport
- Potential for Renewable Energies
- Carbon Footprint Calculation
Our approach aims to discover what you are doing well already rather than to find
fault and to help the process of improving your environmental performance constructively.
The courtesy follow-up visit a year later is essential if you are to get the full
value of the time and money you have invested in the eco-audit.
