Not going that extra mile...

• Change the way parking spaces are allocated to reward the owners of fuel-efficient cars. Instead of automatically giving execs the prime spot by the door, why not allocate the best car parking spaces to the most efiicient vehicles? You could even put in an electric charging point to encourage staff to go that one step further.
• Encourage your staff to cut their carbon and keep fit by joining a cycle to work scheme like Natural England and Spike Island Artspace.
• Why not make cycling that bit easier for everyone by training one of your team in bike maintenance?
• Encourage visitors to your organisation to do at least one leg of the journey lower-carbon like the British Council, Switzerland.
• Keep a couple of folding bikes tucked out of the way in the office, that way even if people can't commute by bike they can still go to meetings on two wheels. It was so successful at Watford Council they even had to extend the cycle shed!

Staff engagement...

• Encourage colleagues to dress flexibly so they can add or remove layers to adapt to the temperature in the office like Kyocera.
• Ensure leadership from the top by getting the boss on board as the government did when Cameron made 10% a must meet target for the civil service.
• Create monthly-themed 10:10 bulletins like the NHS Stockport.
• Do you travel a lot to meetings? Why not take your facilities manager with you? Uk Payments Administration have found that grabbing every moment they can with companies they work with to meet up and find out what they're doing mean that: (a) they know they're working with ethical businesses and (b) they can share best practice and learn some new tricks.
• Why not start Brown Bag Lunch days in the office? Instead of going out for lunch, employees can stay in with their BBLs and listen to an interesting speaker. This could be anyone from one of their own team who's done a lot to cut their own carbon, someone from a local environment project or an expert in a particular field. Check out the 10:10 Talks page to see the variety of individuals who've been invited to speak to the 10:10 team and friends
• Raise money for a local charity by donating any money saved on energy to a good cause. Staff could vote on which.
• Try green movie nights, an opportunity to get together and get inspired while eating pizza and drinking low carbon beer. Don't believe us? Check out what the team at Maximillion have been getting up to. What film would you watch? Suggestions so far include: Age of Stupid, Home, An Inconvenient Truth, Avatar, WALL-E, Witness, The Village, 2012, The End of the Line, Food, Inc., The 11th Hour, Vanishing of the Bees. You can advertise your evening with a 10:10 event poster
• Hold an "hour of enlighTENment" during which you turn all of the lighting off like they do between 10:10-11:10 in Streetcar's main offices
• Green Awards always a winner as UCLH demostrated
• Start a student-led switch off campaign like Penryn College and Amsterdam University's 10:10 Guerrillas
• Appoint a 'Mr Switch It' to raise energy awareness like UCLH, or 'power rangers' to ensure all electrical appliances are turned off and doors and windows shut like they did at Argyle primary school, north London
• Display your energy consumption live on staff computer screens like they do at Land Securities, or in a main foyer like they do at Church Cowley St. James school, Oxford
• Install an ecoDriver and help teach students about data analysis from the graphs and charts they produce like they did at Ashley primary school, Walton-on-Thames

Energy saving can be fun too...

• Temple Translations pocketed a 37% saving by rewarding their best performing departments with a cheesecake.
• Aylesbury Vale Council say chocolate is the key to success! Try going around one night and leaving some on the desks of all those good people who remembered to switch their monitors off before they went home.
• Hold a competition to encourage staff to use the stairs like they did at Acre Resources (you could even go so far as charging lift-users 10p a pop like the guys at Streetcar!)
• Make up your own game like the guys from the HCR group did when they invented 'recycling bingo'; or the Royal Academy, who decided to maximise the talents of their staff with 'sustainability pictionary'
• Holding a party or event? Why not power the music with bicycle power like they did at Lovebox festival?
• Dry clothes using a Shieling Dryer like Chris and Jan Attkins of Belvedere Guest House do to save using the tumble drier

hmmmmm, food...

• Move to vegetarian catering at events like Tzedek, and encourage others throwing events on your behalf to do the same
• Ensure your suppliers are low-carbon too like Organico Real Foods Different example Surely a repition of UCLH point below
• In the catering industry? Locally source your ingredients like Farhad Khan from Interserve did for UCLH's low-carbon challenge
• Build a salad wall for those low-carbon snacks like they are planning to do at Livity around their grass 10:10 logo, you can even make it out of recycled material

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle...

• Make household items out of reused packaging materials like the Honeybuns bakery, or even base your retail store around using no packaging at all like Unpackaged in Finsbury, London
• Create 'swap shops' for discarded household goods like student volunteers at the University of Edinburgh
• Shred old paper to reuse in mail packaging like the Greenshop Group
• Have a lot of excess waste paper? The British Embassy, Beijing put theirs to great use by installing green trays by all printing stations, which was regularly collected and turned into 10:10 scribble pads with energy-saving tips. Other embassies use shredded secret documents in their compost

Got some tips of your own that you'd like to share? Drop us a line at organisations@1010uk.org and check out the resources page for tools to help you.