water to ensure a low water footprint, and minimises or recycles other waste.
http://tinyurl.com/5rcg9uh
Best Community Initiative (in association with Aviva) Settle Hydro
The small North Yorkshire town of Settle now has its own source of renewable energy - a 165,000 kW turbine in the river Ribble. Amazingly, the project was conceived and run by two volunteers in their spare time. “One day”, says Ann Harding, “we looked at the river and thought we must be able to make energy”. They raised £410,000 from grants, loans and investors (including Take That’s Jason Orange) and went live in December 2009. The electricity is sold to the National Grid, with profits divided between shareholders and community projects. The scheme will save 3,200 tonnes of carbon and has now advised 300 other communities about similar projects. http://www.
settlehydro.org.uk/
Best Campaign (in association with Tesco) Forum for the Future - Farming Futures Farming Futures generates awareness and action on climate change amongst farmers, working in partnership with leading bodies in the agricultural sector such as the National Farmers’ Union. It uses peer-to-peer communications to encourage farmers to see sustainable farming as normal and has 40 real-life online case histories covering issues such as soil management, heat pumps and energy crops. It has 47% brand recognition amongst farmers and was voted by Farmers’ Weekly as the number one website for information on agriculture and climate change. Last year over 1,500 farmers attended its events and the website has 1,800 users per month.
http://www.farmingfutures.org.uk/
Best Local Initiative (in association with Kellogg’s) London Borough of Lewisham - Low Carbon Lewisham Central Low Carbon Lewisham Central aims to cut the footprint of an inner city London neighbourhood, principally through retrofitting loft and wall insulation. Launched in January 2010, its first year has seen 5,000 energy efficiency measures installed in an amazing two-thirds of the 1,000 properties in the area. Open to all residents, the programme included free insulation, free energy surveys and free boiler assements. It has also offered free advice to local businesses, engaged staff at the local hospital and used participatory budgeting to give residents a say in how money was spent. One outcome was highly recognisable black and white cow-print recycling bins promoted with the slogan “feed the cows”. http://tinyurl. com/6zzg8rn
Best Educational Initiative (in association with EDF Energy) Climate Change Schools Project The Durham-based Climate Change Schools Project aims to turn young people across the North-East into “everyday experts” on climate change, so they can lead positive action in their communities. Backed by the
Environment Agency, the Association of North-East Councils and others, a network of 100 schools are putting climate change at the heart of the curriculum. Pupils from 5 to 18 not only learn about climate change but also team up with businesses, community groups, councils and meteorologists to take action ranging from energy audits to flood risk assessments, tree planting and theatre performances. Since the project started in 2008 there have been 18,000 hours of pupil-led activities.
Best Event (in association with Tesco) Cape Farewell - SHIFT Festival at the Southbank Centre SHIFT was a week-long climate-focused festival of live music, comedy, theatre and art at the Southbank Centre, London in January 2010. It involved artists who had been taken by scientists on Cape Farewell expeditions to the Arctic, to see the effects of climate change. All events were free and aimed to use artistic expression to stimulate new visions of a viable future. Performers included comedian Marcus Brigstocke, impressionist Alistair McGowan and singer KT Tunstall. Leading architects, scientists, politicians and fashion designers also took part and there was a special youth day. The debates were screened online by the Open University and panel discussions were continued over the web.
Best Initiative by a Public or Uniformed Service (in association with Tesco) University Hospital of South Manchester University Hospital of South Manchester is proving there are financial and social benefits to cutting carbon. Cutting CO2 emissions by 26% in 2010 meant the hospital could plough £120,000 from its energy budget back into patient care. Savings have been underpinned by the installation of two biomass boilers, one of which allows its Cardiac Centre to be self-sufficient in energy. Other measures include a ground source heat pump and more efficient lighting, insulation and building controls. The hospital has also engaged staff and the wider community with a regular farmers’ market, a staff allotment and a car share scheme.
Best Initiative by a Large Business in association with Tesco Whitbread Hotels & Restaurants and Veolia Environmental Services - Landfill Diversion Initiative Whitbread, the UK’s largest hospitality company, has partnered with environmental services company Veolia to prevent thousands of tonnes of waste from hotels and restaurants going to landfill. Whitbread’s landfill diversion from its 590 Premier Inns increased dramatically from 49% to 66% between November 2009 and January 2011. By diverting waste - for example to anaerobic digestion - the hotels slashed direct CO2 emissions by 820,000 tonnes. Their diversion of food waste on a national scale is a first for the UK hospitality industry. The two companies report that a further 4.5 million tonnes of potential future CO2 emissions were avoided by recycling paper, plastic and metal, and by using the hotel waste to generate electricity.
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