The Green Journey

Engaging our internal community

Posted by JLow on Jan 28, 2010

We had our Townhall event yesterday- this is a few-times-a-year event where Management engages the company to give updates and staff-recognition awards. Environment department was given a display booth, as an opportunity to engage with the general staff insofar as creating awareness of our activities.

Alongside our slides of what our plans are, we also had a “pledge tree”: You guessed it, it is a barren tree where folks are encouraged to make a green pledge on what they wish to do differently that will ultimately help with greening their/our environment, either at home and/or at work.

Our Chairman Tan Sri Munir was one of the first participants to make a pledge. I forgot to warn him that we will be checking up on him on his progress!

Our Managing Director Tengku Azmil also had a chance to drop by for a chat, however we didn’t manage to get him to make a pledge.

Our partners Wild Asia were also on hand to assist us in telling their story about and work in Responsible Tourism. Being in the travel service a lot of our colleague were very keen to find out how to be responsible tourists when we travel and the operators we choose to use.

At the end of the day we had collected quite a handful of pledges. With the crowd filling out the pledges and engaging in conversations we had neglected to remind them to leave at least their email addresses behind for us to follow up on. We will however, follow up with those who did leave their names and contact details.

I hope to share their progress here over time.

Thanks to all who dropped by, to find out what we are about, and to pledge to make a difference!