Face Lift for EP@W home

We have wanted to change our home page for ages as it was boring. So we have given it a face lift introducing surfers to the idea that people work in organisations each of which have a particular "culture". Does this translate into an "environmental culture"? Is the way your organisation deals with environmental issues determined by their existing culture?

Have a look and use the interactive tools (quiz/copy/paste/size etc) to determine what the environmental culture of your organisation may be. We have used "hands" as a short hand (sic) to explain the different cultures, and as a way to emphasise the "doing" element of any culture.

Next online programmes
We are pondering which online programmes to develop next. All our programmes can be produced to SCORM compliance and attached to an online database. We have a series of options - including Environmental Culture, Energy Champion (Tesco are going to have one in every store), Integrated Pest Management (new EU Directive), H&S Risk Assessment (new Qualification), Environmental Risk Assessment (based on DEFRA guide), Gardening for Sustainabilty (this could explore sustainability with issues many of us ponder), Healthy Eating (M&S promise a trained adviser in every store), Counting Carbon - suddenly in demand, and Reduce Food Waste in the Home (response to WRAP initiative). To help us decide, we invite you to go to our database and put in your choices and suggestions. Thank you.

Whilst you ponder...time for a coffee break..... We are giving away this coffee quiz to anyone who may wish to have it on their web site. Click image

email us to receive this free quiz and request information on other available quizes. You may prefer to have a bank of 'revolving' questions with just one question per visit.

Meanwhile this is what we are doing..

Pesticides
We are developing a Pesticide Reduction Online Programme for Sainsbury's suppliers to demonstrate they are reducing pesticide use as much as possible.

Agricultural Health & Safety Vocational Qualifications
LANTRA & NPTC announced a new VRQ in Health and Safety for Agric/Hort for Managers - completing the 3 level suite. Our director, Dr Charlie Clutterbuck, initiated this in his role on the HSE committee for Agriculture -see farmsteps. We are working with one of the Awarding Bodies to develop online support materials - to SCORM compliance standards, for the Level 3 qualification. Keep a check on News of VRQs developed for H&S.

Food Ethics Council: Charlie has recently been appointed a Council Member.

IUF: Charlie has been invited to the platform of 25th World Congress of the International Food Workers (Geneva: March 2007) to discuss "Cheap Food - what are the costs"?

Sustainable Food Site - now No 1 in Google worldwide!