News Archive
- Free networking and learning - 11th June 2012
- Attend this free workshop on Sustainable Decision Making. Open to anyone. Focuses on sustainability and how decision making is an important part of everyday work and management.
- What’s in a broken leg?
- Well aside from broken bones, I noticed a few things about human nature since breaking my leg at the start of the year.
- £2000 grant research to understand green attitudes and behaviour in the workplace
- Proposals are invited for a research grant of £2000 to support a research project that aims to “green” an organisation. For example, an initiative that attempts to change attitudes and/or encourage environmentally sustainable behaviour in a particular organisation. The research proposal must relate to a new piece of research that is not already being funded.
- Free networking and learning event 28th Feb 2012
- Using Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) to manage "Resistance to Change" in the context of promoting greener behaviour in the workplace.
- Using psychology to improve your internal communications
- Occupational psychologists are underused by internal communication departments compared to HR and Recruitment. Is it a fear of Big Brother pseudo-science or should we spend a bit more time on the couch?
- How to be upbeat about the downturn
- We can’t directly control the economy, which, in many people’s opinions, is currently on another downturn. So what can be done?
- Children's moral judgments about environmental harm
- Young children in northeastern USA see harms against the environment as morally worse than bad manners.
- Give your opinion and receive the survey results for free
- Please give us 5 minutes of your time to help make a bit of a difference! Represent your organisation in an anonymous survey about going green at work and receive a copy of the report for free.
- Going Green Working Group Update
- Update on the conference and a couple of dates for your diary to network and learn at free events (including a workshop on managing resistance to change). Plus find out how to give GGWG feedback.
- Three steps to engaging your staff in saving energy and reducing waste at work
- We’ve all seen faded posters asking staff politely to turn off the lights and stickers on photocopiers ‘off’ buttons that never get pressed. So why do so many energy and waste saving campaigns fail?
- Learn and Network! GGWG One day conference 7th October
- Join us at the Going Green Working Group one day Conference. Find out about the latest academic research, and organisational practices to change attitudes and behaviour towards sustainability in the workplace.
- Going Green Working Group: Free networking and learning 7th July
- Learn and network for free at this interactive workshop run by Martin Grimshaw of DecisionLab.
- Anna completes half marathon, raising funds for WWF
- Anna completed the Seaford half marathon on the 5th June and raised well over £350 for WWF. She says it was worth all the aches, pains and blisters.
- Has Anna Kane bitten off more than she can chew?!
- Anna is set to run the Seaford half marathon on Sunday 6th June. Sponsor her and help raise money for WWF - a cause slightly bigger and even more difficult to achieve than Anna's efforts to run 13.1 miles.
- Ampleo is recruiting
- We are looking for a part-time PA/admin assistant to be based in Brighton. Get in touch and I'll tell you more about it. anna.kane@ampleo.co.uk
- Network and learn for free! April 13th
- The Division of Occupational Psychology Going Green Working Group would like to invite you to their Quarterly Meeting on the Value of Ecopsychology that is being held in London.
- Release of the full GGWG Publication by the BPS
- The GGWG has produced an edited volume which draws together into a single volume some of the interesting work which is taking place in areas connected with the main themes from the symposium held in April 2010.
Ampleo's Anna Kane authored one of the publication chapters. The publication is free to download.
- 2011 dates set for GGWG
- Put some dates in your diary for free networking and learning with the BPS's Going Green Working Group.
- December's 'Networking and Learning' Rescheduled for 28th January
- RESCHEDULED! Hear about theory and current research, and psychological and organizational techniques that have proved efficacious and discussion about putting these into practice. Plus more! FREE EVENT
- Network and learn for free!
- Hear about theory and current research, and psychological and organizational techniques that have proved efficacious and discussion about putting these into practice. Plus more! FREE EVENT
- Anna Kane presents at a Federation of Small Businesses AGM
- The Federation of Small Business, Croydon branch, have asked Anna to talk about green issues in the work environment, and issues that specifically affect the small business owner. Anna will be speaking on the 19th October 2010.
- Ampleo launches a the Ampleo EES mini version
- Ampleo is trialling the full sized Ampleo Environmental Engagement Survey with Aviva, Dengbighshire County Council and NHS Ipswich Hospitals Trust. But you can have a sneak preview of the Mini version for free!
- A new world record has been set!
- Most people attending a Business Speed Networking Event at a single venue in the World record was achieved at The Hilton Brighton Metropole, 6 September 2010, by businesses across Brighton, Hove, Sussex, UK.
- Anna Kane presents a seminar at 10:10 HQ
- 10:10, the global campaign to cut carbon by 10% a year, invited Anna Kane to give a seminar at their headquarters in July.
- Ampleo seminar at 10:10 HQ
- Anna Kane will be delivering a seminar to 10:10 staff and invited guests on Thursday 22nd July. The 10:10 staff invited Anna to talk about the role recruitment and motivation plays in an organisation's environmental strategy.
- Registration opens for Going Green in the Workplace Symposium
- Interested in the latest research & best practice on changing employees’ and consumers’ behaviours and attitudes on environmental issues?
- Going Green: Leading Edge Symposium
- Are you interested in finding out about the latest research and best practice on changing employees’ and consumers’ behaviours and attitudes around environmental issues?
- Ampleo signs up for 10:10
- Just joined 10:10 - the biggest collective effort yet to tackle climate change.
1010uk.org: an idea whose time has come. #1010
- Ampleo receives a Green Guardian 2009 award nomination
- Ampleo Consultancy has been nominated for the Green Guardian awards 2009 for the Category of Green Business of the year
- What have psychometrics got to do with a green business?
- You couldn’t be blamed for thinking there wasn’t a link between psychometric tests that profile an individual’s personality and how ‘green’ your business is. The connection isn’t an obvious one. But it might be a crucial one that provides your business with the insight it needs to ensure its environmental policy or Environmental Management System (EMS) is implemented across the business.
- Tips on how to green up your business
- Is green the new gold for business? Green businesses seem to be popping up all over the place, but are they genuinely ‘green’ or is it a marketing façade otherwise known as ‘greenwashing’?
- Green shoots in an economic downturn
- Staff motivation and talent retention for an economic turnaround
- Can “Green HR” help to save the planet?
- HR has a role in the pursuit of greener business practices; a role which could help to both save the planet and recruit new employees.
- Three ways to engage your staff in saving energy and reducing waste at work
- We’ve all seen faded posters asking staff politely to turn off the lights and stickers on photocopiers ‘off’ buttons that never get pressed. So why do so many energy and waste saving campaigns fail? Often the campaigns that come down from above make staff feel like they’re being imposed upon and staff can’t see the answer to the question ‘What’s in it for me?’
- Ampleo is recruiting!
- Are you a self-employed environmental consultant with experience of applying your skills in a business context? Click through to read more.. Ampleo may be the place for you!
- Ampleo partners with Parity Eco Solutions
- Working in partnership, Ampleo and Parity Eco Solutions provided the Energy Saving Trust with Home Energy Check Development Concepts.
- Ampleo exhibits at Sustainabilitylive!
- Sustainabilitylive! 2009 is an essential day out for anyone in business today. Come and find us at stand N83 in the Sustainable Business section, at the NEC, Birmingham from the 19-21 May 2009. (Click through for more details)
- The Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World
- Look for self-enlightened companies that plan to be around for the long-haul, useful for job hunter, managers who want to benchmark their company’s sustainability performance, governments looking to attract companies that will contribute to building their societies, consumers and citizen groups that want to know which companies they may be able to work with in meaningful ways
- Business chiefs urge action on climate change
- Business leaders including directors at Tesco, Lloyds TSB and other top high street names have urged Gordon Brown to drop his slowly, slowly approach to tackling global warming and go for "transformational change", saying the prime minister should not be held back by fears over the current financial crisis.
- UK missing out on green business
- The UK is missing out on thousands of jobs and billions of pounds in revenue that other European nations are generating through support of green businesses, the TUC said.
- Business takes the green route
- Just how much of a step is big business prepared to take to reduce its carbon footprint?
- Guardian Green Business
- The latest green-related business news from the Guardian
