May 16
On Wednesday we had a lovely evening on the Southbank collecting our Sunday Times “Best Green Companies” award. We are really proud to come 18th in the UK Top 50 and 5th in the London region - here’s me and Shannon accepting the award from Richard Caseby, Sunday Times Managing Editor - in front of green background, of course …
We decided to get involved with this award because we are genuinely passionate about developing ourselves as a sustainable company. We have already learnt a lot about our approach, now we are looking at ways to start doing more stuff globally and make improvements wherever we can. Some of the others who made the list were The National Magazine Company, Morgan Lovell, Carillon, HBOS and Eurostar, with the overall winners being J C Atkinson, a small company who make coffins - and wow, they do some amazing stuff for a company of their size. Here’s just one example from many - they have installed a biomass generator, which takes all the sawdust and cut-offs from making the coffins and uses the energy to heat and power the factory, as well as selling surplus back to the National Grid!
In the spirit of learning and development we will be sharing some our ideas and practices back here, so watch this space.
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One Comment to “Going Green With The Sunday Times”
That’s amazing! I’m glad that your company is taking steps to be more eco-friendly. And this award sounds like it’s doing a great job of bringing more attention to the plight of our Earth, and recognizing those who are making positive contributions to our environment.
Something I want to talk about is bioheat, it’s just one small measure that people can take in order to start living a greener lifestyle.
Has anyone ever heard of it, or has switched to it? I want to start taking initiative in turning my home into a greener household, one way I have started is by switching out all my lightbulbs in my home to energy efficient lightbulbs. And I am also seriously considering switching over to bioheat as an alternative to regular oilheat. The thing that I love the most about it is that it’s completely clean burning, and is comprised of a b5 blend of oils which are derived from natural plant and vegetable sustainable resources such as corn, hemp, and avocados just to name a few. If you all want more information on how bioheat, just go on to http://oilheatamerica.com/index.mv?screen=bioheat I work with NORA to bring this info to you all!