Green Portsmouth

Green Meetings

If you're arranging meetings, or regularly make arrangements for visitors to the University, consider whether you can achieve your purpose without meeting in person.  You can help reduce our carbon emissions and our costs by using videoconferencing and teleconferencing.  When arranging meetings in person, book an appropriately sized room so the space doesn't use heating or lighting uneccessarily.

Videoconferencing

Videoconferencing facilities are located in St Andrews on the 3rd floor.  To book, call Danni on x3490 or email Yordanka.Raykova@port.ac.uk

Use hangouts on Google+ from your own desk - with or without video

Use Skype or Webex, depending on what your department has approved for use

Meeting Outdoors

If the weather is good, try an outdoor meeting in Ravelin or Victoria Park for a change of scenery.  

Studies on the benefits of being outdoors indicate that a dose of nature can boost self-esteem and creativity, so why not hold your next meeting outside. Grab a drink and sit down, or go for a bit of a wander. 

Catering your meeting

Please don't order disposables – they may be cheaper than china when you order them, but the university has to pay to dispose of them.  They use finite resources unnecessarily, and aren’t always recycled by users.  Catering can provide ceramic crockery if your meeting room is accessible by the ground floor or a lift.