Jill Boone
Climate Change and Sustainability Manager, County of Santa Clara - Facilities and Fleet Dept.
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Re: FUN Challenge - Give a Watt: Pedal It Forward
2011-05-19 10:57:20 UTC
Rosemarie - I'd be interested in where you got the bikes from. Thanks, Jill
Jill Boone
Climate Change and Sustainability Manager
County of Santa Clara - Facilities and Fleet Dept.
United States -
Disaster Preparedness
2011-04-02 13:36:37 UTC
We have a lot of responsibility for disaster planning and operations and I am aware that many employees (including myself) are not prepared for a disaster at home, in spite of having been given lots of information (for instance a 24 week planning guide!!). County employees are all disaster workers of one type or another - and so if they are not prepared at home, chances are that we will not have as good response in our work because of this distraction. I'm going to do a mini pilot in our department to see if I can increase the percentage of employees who have basic supplies on hand and accessible at home. I'm also using this as a trial run for CBSM efforts.
I haven't found any successful programs and the reasons why people don't prepare are many, so I'm starting with a survey to evaluate the level of preparedness and the barriers and benefits. I've chosen 6 behaviors that are easy to measure (having a fully charged flashlight available to each member of the family, signed up for the Alert program in our county, stored food and water for 10 days in a place accessible if the house is not, etc.)
I'm surveying the entire department - there are other questions relating to our preparedness at work too and then will do a pilot on a small group within the department. Then I can measure the changes in the small group against the larger group of the department. If it is successful, I will do it with the full dept and recommend it to the full county (15,000 employees).
Anyone done anything like this that has measurable results that show that families or employees are now prepared? Any comments?
Jill Boone
Climate Change and Sustainability Manager
County of Santa Clara - Facilities and Fleet Dept.
United States -
Re: Pay as You Go Garbage Collection Systems
2011-03-31 16:05:00 UTC
Brian,
This is such a wonderful example for a systems theory reflection. I remember an example in the Fifth Discipline about the circular process of always taking action a step behind and making the system swing even more out of control. That one was on keeping beer in stock.... I'm interested to know how this turns out for you as we can all learn from it!
Jill
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Jill Boone
Climate Change and Sustainability Manager
County of Santa Clara - Facilities and Fleet Dept.
United States -
Re: Pay as You Go Garbage Collection Systems
2011-03-30 11:36:08 UTC
Brian - not a bad problem to have from a waste management perspective. Why not keep the PAYT fees for trash and add a parcel task to cover materials management? Otherwise, you may find yourselves with too much trash again as the incentive to do otherwise goes away.
Jill Boone
Climate Change and Sustainability Manager
County of Santa Clara - Facilities and Fleet Dept.
United States -
Re: Reusable Mugs on Campus
2011-01-25 11:39:16 UTC
Hale - I'm interested in the theory of using the two signs. Any info on that? I agree that this could be an interesting way to help with norms messaging and I might try this on some of our internal messaging on actions. It's a creative approach and might be an easy one to test too!
Jill
Jill Boone
Climate Change and Sustainability Manager
County of Santa Clara - Facilities and Fleet Dept.
United States -
Re: Script for Smoke-Free Campus Message
2011-01-20 11:36:37 UTC
Belinda - Before you make all this final, why not run it by some smokers? Or just go test it out on a couple and see what kind of response you get. Jill
Jill Boone
Climate Change and Sustainability Manager
County of Santa Clara - Facilities and Fleet Dept.
United States -
Re: Script for Smoke-Free Campus Message
2011-01-19 21:36:47 UTC
Well, we have a no smoking within 30 feet of the building policy. I have gently reminded people - oh, you know we have a policy of not smoking within 30 feet of the building? I have no idea if it works or not - but I don't do it aggressively, just kind of let them know I noticed.
But if I were trying to do a campaign like this, I would start by having an informal focus group and ask them what would help them to use these areas. Find out the benefits to them, as well as the barriers. Find out if they know the policy and just ignore it. Ask the questions and you'll probably have a good idea then of what might work. And then test it. Jill
Jill Boone
Climate Change and Sustainability Manager
County of Santa Clara - Facilities and Fleet Dept.
United States -
Re: Webinar: Take a Load off Toronto Clothesline Campaign
2011-01-14 11:29:32 UTC
Good combination of actions. I'm curious - did you do any follow-up to determine if the clotheslines were installed? And then used?
Jill Boone
Climate Change and Sustainability Manager
County of Santa Clara - Facilities and Fleet Dept.
United States -
Re: Mutlimodal Transportation Marketing Plans
2011-01-12 19:27:26 UTC
I should clarify that we kept the carpool space for two months after I moved and carpooled regularly, even though we didn't often park the car at his building. Then we gave up and started driving two cars. :(
Jill Boone
Climate Change and Sustainability Manager
County of Santa Clara - Facilities and Fleet Dept.
United States -
Re: Mutlimodal Transportation Marketing Plans
2011-01-12 19:25:27 UTC
Here is a personal story to add to this discussion. My son and I had a carpool space, which we gave up when I began working from a different building. While we had the space, we always talked about what days we could carpool or not. Now that we don't have it, we almost never carpool! The difference is that we had a space we agreed to use for this purpose, now we don't. So there is an element of having signed something saying we were carpoolers.... :)
Thanks Stephen - I'll check out this site.
Jill Boone
Climate Change and Sustainability Manager
County of Santa Clara - Facilities and Fleet Dept.
United States
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