About this Guide
This guide presents One Simple Act’s seven steps to creating and implementing a Green
Plan in your workplace. Each of the seven steps in this guide outlines the actions your
group will need to complete along with directions to help you fill in the associated
worksheets (found at the end of this manual in the Green Plan Worksheets section).
When completed, these worksheets will serve as the sections of your organization’s
Green Plan. (Note that the term organization is used throughout this guide, however the
seven steps apply equally to all types of workplace whether private, public, institutional
or not‐for‐profit.) This plan will then become a working document to guide your
implementation. This manual can be supplemented with the One Simple Act Green
Purchasing Guide www.onesimpleact.alberta.ca/docs/purchasing.pdf, and the over 100
actions found within the Simple Acts Reference Guides
www.onesimpleact.alberta.ca/get‐involved/work.asp.
The seven steps to develop and implement a green plan are:
Step 1 – Develop a green implementation team
Step 2 – Do an inventory
Step 3 – Identify priorities
Step 4 – Measure performance and set targets
Step 5 – Develop an implementation schedule
Step 6 – Implement your plan
Step 7 – Communicate results