tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164206093764668158.post3055538074252886959..comments2022-11-04T06:02:41.512+00:00Comments on SHED: Should We Celebrate the Reporting of Failure?Simon Kemphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736871348927667019noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164206093764668158.post-67790233741691545852011-10-10T20:45:50.169+01:002011-10-10T20:45:50.169+01:00Quite right Steve - I've noticed a gap between...Quite right Steve - I've noticed a gap between glossy sustainability reports and what actually goes on at institutions. To keep their integrity, academic institutions need to give a balanced view and not cherry-pick data, but sustainability reports seem to focus on a few (often trivial) token achievements while ignoring any sustainability initiatives that have closed down during the year, even ones which they trumpeted in last year's report. Probably the biggest problem is that institutions count the creation of strategies as a success, whether or not those strategies have been embraced and put into practice by the university at large or not. That's also true for ISO14001, which does not prove that a university is 'sustainable' (as glossy brochures may imply), just that it has an EMS and sets itself goals to achieve each year (which can be very small goals). In general I'd like to see sustainability moving away from being a managerial/marketing/CR exercise, and more an aspect of professional responsibility of all staff.Arran Stibbehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00904993073526365090noreply@blogger.com