Mark Fenton, called "America's Walking Guru" by USA Today, gave a rousing talk to 45 project leaders and guests about motivating employees to move and improve air quality.
Hosted by AXA Equitable on March 25, 2010
Mark Fenton is an entertaining, engaging, and knowledgeable walking advocate and host of the PBS series America’s Walking.Most recently, Mark has become a recognized authority on public health issues and the need for community, environmental, and public-policy initiatives to encourage more walking and bicycling. Mark has several years of experience empowering individuals to make healthy lifestyle changes and helping businesses develop successful wellness programs that encourage employee participation and exceed expectations.
Click below to view a You Tube video of the workshop and for Mark's handouts.
Dr. Doug McKenzie-Mohr presents workshop on building effective programs to more than 70 business and community leaders.
Hosted by Harris Teeter on Thursday, May 20, 2010
Clean Air Works! and NC Air Awareness present the pioneer of Community-based Social Marketing (CBSM), Dr. Doug McKenzie-Mohr.For more than two decades, he has been working to incorporate scientific knowledge on behavior change into the design and delivery of community programs.Dr. McKenzie-Mohr has worked with diverse governmental and non-governmental agencies, assisting them in identifying the barriers to behavior change and in developing community based social marketing initiatives to overcome these barriers.His book, Fostering Sustainable Behavior, is requisite reading for those who deliver programs to promote sustainable behavior.
While many initiatives to encourage sustainable behavior rely on information campaigns, Dr. Doug McKenzie-Mohr’s work in community based social marketing suggests that more is required to actually change behaviors.In a workshop hosted by Harris Teeter, Doug outlined strategies for developing more effective programs.Identify the barriers specific to the behavior you want to promote, and then tailor your program accordingly.For more information visit www.cbsm.com or click here to find a Quick Reference Guide.Here is a copy of his presentation.
Designing Green Programs: Putting Ideas into Practice
July 22, 2010
Bank of America's Lisa Shpritz took a corporate sustainability policy and turned it into a way of life at Bank of America. Approximately 65 people attended andBank of America provided complementary transit passes. Following Lisa Shpritz’s talk on BOA’s sustainability program, a group discussion was led by Dawn Reeves in order to generate a list of actionable items for project leaders to take back to their organizations.Some ideas of note included:
Offer banking, dry cleaning, and postal services on-site
Renegotiate the pest management program: cease use of the “spray and pray” method in favor of an inspection-based program
Use Environmental Ambassadors to help promote and execute initiatives company-wide
Lisa Shpritz, Senior Vice President of Corporate Workplace and Director of the Environmental Risk and Sustainability Group
On Track for Cleaner Air: Success Begins with You
September 22, 2010
Kevin Green, Executive Director of Atlanta's highly sucessful Clean Air Campaign discussed the critical role that industry and business have played in the success of Georgia's clean air initiatives.
Here are a few key points from Kevin’s presentation:
1. The support of senior management is a key element in the success of clean commuting initiatives. 2. Telecommuting: this tends to be more feasible than people sometimes think.Atlanta just completed their first “Try It” week for telecommuting and had great results.
Sheila Holman, Director of NC Division of Air Quality, discussed the new EPA standard for ground level ozone and its possible effects on Charlotte area businesses.
Approximately 70 attended this workshop that took place at the NASCAR Hall of Fame Museum.
