Greener Together Toolkit

The Greener Together toolkit has been designed to support people taking practical actions that create change around the themes of energy, waste and personal travel and to guide working with others through collective action.

It brings together the learning from "Greener Together - the Co-operative way" a two year government funded project which ended in May 2011 and engaged, supported and provided the means to share lifestyle changes that reduce members’ and customers’ environmental impact in the areas of energy, waste and personal transport.

Greener Together aims were to help people to live in a more sustainable way by focusing on the small actions we can each take in our daily lives towards achieving bigger changes in the wider world.

Greener Together is part of a bigger programme, called the Greener Living Fund which aims to identify and understand what motivates people to be greener.

The Greener Together Toolkit provides ideas and links to useful resources for individuals to make changes around the Greener Together themes of: energy, waste and personal travel. It also offers a challenge to others that are already green to live greener, by acting as a beacon. This toolkit offers encouragement, support and useful exercises to live greener as an individual or by forming a group, linked by location or member organisation.

The Toolkit is divided into three main areas:

• Sharing Ideas gives some background on Greener Together and the roles eco-operators can take.


• Working Together is about forming groups and useful skills for taking collective action.


• Sharing Practice offers ideas and resources for practical actions based around the Greener Together pledges

Throughout this Toolkit you'll find case studies provided by Greener Together eco-operators and pioneers to inspire you, as well as plenty of ideas for practical action that you can use in your home, workplace and communities.