Green Week: 5 Ideas to Kick-Start Your Thinking (Without Overstretching Your Team)
For many organisations, sustainability currently sits in a difficult place. Expectations remain, but investment appetite is cautious. Leaders are under pressure to demonstrate responsibility without creating new cost centres, complexity, or long-term obligations. Green Week, when approached correctly, offers a contained and proportionate way to respond. It allows organisations to test interest, signal intent, and explore what is viable, without committing to large-scale programmes.
Below are five Green Week ideas designed to work within these constraints.
1. Sustainability Pledge Wall
Invite employees to commit to one specific action for the week; for example, reducing food waste, using public transport, or switching off unused equipment. Keep it visible, simple, and voluntary. At the end of the week, share a short recap highlighting participation and takeaways.
Why it works: Clear actions, visible participation, no long-term obligation.
2. Green Quiz Challenge
Run a short, interactive quiz focused on sustainability basics, climate facts, biodiversity, or your organisation’s existing initiatives. This can be done in-person or online to include remote teams. Offer small, practical rewards such as reusable items or plants.
Why it works: It builds shared understanding quickly without adding workload.
3. Guided Green Week Events
For organisations looking for a more curated experience, Colectivo offers expert-led Green Week sessions in collaboration with sustainability specialists, including Feebee Foran (Forager) and breathwork guide Allan Muller. These 90-minute to 2-hour guided experiences (available principally from Spring onwards) are designed to engage teams meaningfully while remaining contained and well-structured.
Why it works: High-quality engagement without the internal planning burden.
4. Eco-Book Club
Select one accessible book or article and host a single discussion during Green Week. Keep the format hybrid to include remote employees and focus on structured, guided conversations that translate ideas into reflection and action.
You can start with Colectivo’s Book Club, where we’ve curated accessible sustainability reads designed to support meaningful discussion rather than abstract theory.
Explore Our first pick:
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard in our blog here 👉 [insert hyperlink]
Why it works: Encourages thoughtful discussion without requiring ongoing commitment.
5. Plant a Seed Campaign
Distribute seed packets or small plants for employees to take home, or organise a short group planting session if space allows. The focus is symbolic but lasting, a simple reminder of long-term thinking beyond the week itself.
Why it works: Tangible, low-cost, and extends the impact beyond the calendar.
Where Our Green Week Guide Comes In
Most companies don’t fail at sustainability because they don’t care, they fail because they don’t know how to scale ambition realistically. Our Green Week Guide is designed specifically for this moment in the market:
Ideas categorised by level of engagement and investment
Practical formats that don’t overwhelm teams
Clear positioning to avoid greenwashing while still showing intent
Whether you want a light-touch Green Week or a stepping stone toward deeper action, the guide gives you options, not obligations.
Want support planning a Green Week that fits your business reality?
Reach out to us at hello@colectivo.ie and we’ll help you design a week that makes sense now, not in a perfect sustainability future.
Download the Green Week guidebook here
