Green Planet Wellness™ runs from November 10 - December 7, 2008.
To receive 300 points for program participation, please take a few minutes to complete the program evaluation. You must Log in by clicking on "Registration."
Tip of the Week: Workforce Green
Offices are an ideal place to think green:
- Save your office supplies — reuse folders, paper clips, and binders
- Use refillable pens and pencils instead of throwaways
- Print double-sided, on recycled paper, when possible
- Before recycling, reuse printed materials as notepaper
- Reuse packing materials that arrive at your workplace
- Ban single-use water bottles
- Send emails with attached files for review/approval rather than printing them
- Opt for washable coffee mugs
- Turn your computer off at the end of work
- Start a carpool bulletin board so employees can make arrangements with other workers who live near them.
Look around your office to find other ways you can go green. Ask management for support (many eco-friendly efforts will actually cut costs) and encourage coworkers to think green, too.
What is Green Planet Wellness?
Whether you believe the Earth is in peril or global warming is a natural phenomenon, there’s no denying that green living is a smart, healthy choice — for you and for your world. Green Planet Wellness gives you simple, everyday examples of how to live greener and healthier. You’ll learn practices that contribute to the environment, while saving money on energy consumption. And you’ll gain the personal satisfaction of doing something good for you and everyone around you.
What’s in it for you? Besides the personal satisfaction that comes from taking good care of yourself and your world, upon Registration, you will receive 100 points to use at the Wellness Store; upon completion of the program, you will receive 300 points for completing the program evaluation.
Your Goal
Each day, you’ll select from a list of 100+reasonable, achievable green living activities segmented into 5 categories — At Home, At Work, Exercise, Nutrition, and Miscellaneous. Each activity is assigned a value of 1 to 4 green points, depending on its potential impact. You’ll earn green points for each activity —aiming for a 30-day total of 100. To encourage consistency, you may record no more than 9 points a day. By the end of the program, you’ll have developed new green habits for living healthfully while reducing your impact on the environment. Download/View log form (pdf)
Prize
To earn the points to pick a prize, you will be asked to complete a brief program evaluation after December 1. You receive 100 points for registering and 300 points for completing the evaluation. You can visit the Wellness Store to see your prize selection or you can save your points and participate in additional UI Wellness programming like Well On Our Way (WOOW) to purchase a higher point level prize.
- Green Planet Wellness Log Form (pdf)
Keep track of your daily GREEN efforts on the program log page. - Point Descriptions (pdf)
Want further explanation of activities; view this page for ideas and explanations of how you can go green. - Additional Readings
Want additional information on how to Go Green, read these article. To save paper, try not to print them (pdf files).- Green Exercise — Being Good to the Outdoors While Doing Good Things for Your Body
- Locavore — A New Old Way of Eating
- Living Gently — Do More With Less
- Walk Friendly — Reducing Your Footprint by Using Your Feet
- Resource Page
"Green Planet Wellness" is an incentive program purchased from Health Enhancement Systems for use by The University of Iowa (www.hesonline.com).
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