Green Living consortium members
The Green Living Consortium is an influential coalition led by Green Alliance. It is through the Consortium that all current work under the Green Living theme is being carried out.
Members of the consortium are:
Green Alliance, Asda, Scottish Power, Groundwork, WRAP, PepsiCo and Kellogg’s. Read below for an introduction given by each consortium member.
Asda Stores Ltd
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Julian Walker-Palin, head of corporate policy for sustainability & ethics.
I am responsible for corporate sustainability policy and strategy and its external communication.
As a customer driven business we want to understand how we can best help them to live more sustainable but within their means. Greener living is a key project to set best practice for how we, government, NGOs and others communicate clearly to consumers in this space.
Graham Duxbury, director of development
I am a member of the executive team with responsibility for national business and organisational development. My key functions include policy and public affairs, PR and marketing, income generation, professional development and knowledge management.
Green living is central to all that Groundwork does. Through our work we aim to help people make sustainable development a reality, respecting nature’s limits and supporting the concept of One Planet Living. We encourage adults and children to change their behaviour by helping them understand and appreciate how individual actions at home, at school and at work can make a real difference to the global environment. We educate people to act more responsibly with regard to energy, waste and water and provide residents with advice on improving the environmental performance of their homes.
Kellogg's
Bruce Learner, corporate responsibility manager, Kellogg's Europe
My aim is to develop Kellogg’s corporate reputation. I deliver corporate responsibility programmes focused on the environment, community initiatives, health and wellbeing in the UK. These include our sponsorship of swimming, the breakfast club programme and the Go Green employee engagement programme.
I also assist other Kellogg markets in Europe develop and deliver corporate responsibility programmes that are relevant to their markets. Additionally, I manage the Kellogg Corporate Citizenship Fund for Kellogg Europe
We hope to be part of something that can establish what the UK really believes about Green living, and what encourages people to engage or resist engagement. What are the green priorities for different people? How do they change through their lives, and will emissions ever be understandable for society? Will emissions ever be the best proxy for measuring environmental impact?
We hope to get an insight into future policy.
We hope to maintain and enhance our reputation by contributing positively to and influencing the programme and by supporting it in as many ways as we can.
PepsiCo
James Barlow, Sustainability Manager, PepsiCo Europe
Why does green living matter to your organisation?
The earth’s climate is changing, with unpredictable weather events, droughts and storms causing serious consequences for our consumers, supply chains and business. So solving the multiple environmental crises we face is a business priority. We have committed to transform our business, making our business fossil fuel free over the next fifteen years and unplugging our largest factories from the water grid. But, to successfully deliver sustainability consumers also need to play their part. They can reduce their ownfootprint through their everyday behaviour, and through their choices of products and services. And they can also pressure political and business leaders to do more, and set the right policy framework.
John Pietryszak, head of new business development
My role is to develop new business opportunities for ScottishPower from the evolution of UK and EU policy driving both the carbon and renewables agenda.
ScottishPower are looking to develop a number of ESCO type propositions to take to the market. These propositions will support the current environmental policy and objectives and will be developed for all of our customers from I&C, through SME to domestic.
The UK environmental targets are a significant challenge. If we are to have any chance of meeting them it will be necessary for customers to be engaged with the agenda.
From the project, we hope to get a strong evidence based analysis that demonstrates what actions are needed to stimulate UK consumers to actively engage in the support of the environmental agenda. This analysis will facilitate a robust lobbying strategy that will help the UK government shape UK policy in support of the findings, providing the best opportunity for success.
WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme)
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Patrick Mahon, policy analyst
My role is to represent WRAP in external discussions on relevant policy issues, and to ensure that WRAP staff are fully informed about developments in the policy context for our work.
WRAP has been chosen by Defra to lead a single resource efficiency body in the UK from April 2010. WRAP works by embedding behavioural change with consumers and businesses. As such, an understanding of sustainable consumption behaviours and green living is key to supporting behavioural change.
In addition, exploring the issues around green living will catalyse new thinking on resource efficiency issues and drive the environmental policy debate.