Green Apple Awards 2011
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The Green Apple Awards 2011 for Environmental Best Practice were presented at the House of Commons on November 14.
The Champion of Champions were GI Solutions of Leicester, who win a holiday for two in the world’s greenest resort - AquaCity, Slovakia. |
The Green Apple Awards are presented annually in recognition of companies, councils and communities carrying out projects that enhance the environment and there were more than 500 nominations this year.
Some of the award-winning projects will be featured in the next Green Book, the world’s only work of reference on environmental best practice, and these winners will also be receiving a Green Hero Wall Shield during a special prize giving ceremony at a top London venue in the spring.
The Green Apple Awards campaign is run by The Green Organisation, an independent, non-political, non-profit organisation that recognises, rewards and promotes environmental best practice around the world.
Supporters include the Environment Agency, the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management, The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, SAVE Britain’s Heritage, The Municipal Journal and various other professional bodies.
AZUR SOLAR installs an 883 kWp Solar PV system for The Body Shop International
The UK’s largest single ownership commercial on-roof Solar PV solution to date was connected this week with an 883kWp solar photovoltaic energy system from AZUR SOLAR being installed at the head office of The Body Shop International in Littlehampton, West Sussex.
Over 3800 AZUR 2P modules and a bank of 40 inverters were installed over the past month. With a total coverage of 6,355.2 m2 the system would easily meet the needs of over 200 homes each year however The Body Shop International plans to consume all this energy itself on-site, significantly reducing its energy costs and eliminating over 390 tons of CO2 emissions from its operations annually.
Scuderi Group Showcases its Split-Cycle Engine at RIVE 2011.
Scuderi Group LLC, the engine development company that is re-engineering the conventional four-stroke engine to advance fuel efficient engine design, showcased its Scuderi™ split-cycle engine last week at RIVE 2011 (les Rencontres Internationales des Voitures Ecologiques), the largest green motoring event of its kind in the world, which takes place annually in Alès in the South of France.
Mr. Stephen Scuderi participated in a panel discussion on the “Future of Green Vehicles” and delivered a rousing speech to an audience of French Parliamentary ministers, automakers, energy suppliers and mobile services providers, to present how the development of the ICE (the internal combustion engine) is the most effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as to quote Mr. Scuderi, “it buys the time for non fossil fuel technologies to overcome the challenges they face to enter the global market, such as cost, operating range and power density.” Click here to read more and hear the podcast.
Are you making an effort to
Go4Green?
Supported by The Green Organisation, Touch Local has launched a
new Go4Green directory to enable consumers to find
environmentally-friendly businesses in their local area.
Touch Local recently conducted a national poll across a sample selection of UK SMEs, asking: “As a business owner, do you feel it is important for your business to be environmentally friendly in today’s economic climate?”
An overwhelming 83% of respondents said yes.
Responding to this demand, Touch Local have partnered with Go4Green to provide an online business finder specifically aimed at businesses that make an effort to be green.
This initiative is supported by The Green Organisation, and registered businesses agree to follow the Organisation’s Code of Green Conduct, pledging to improve and maintain an environmentally-friendly standard in their companies.
This allows consumers to consciously select a business that has promised to commit to good environmental practice.
By choosing to buy from ‘green’ companies, consumers can be sure that they are doing their bit for the environment, and this will encourage other businesses to take a more positive approach to energy conservation, recycling and ethically produced goods.
To find out more, why not visit the directory at http://www.go4green.org
Green certified companies may still create as much pollution
Companies with environmental standard ISO 14001 certification may emit just as much air pollution as non-certified companies, according to a recent study.
The results suggest companies see ISO 14001 as a way to appear environmentally responsible rather than to actively improve their environmental credentials.
ISO 14001 is a globally recognised and popular environmental standard: in 2007, 154,517 companies in 148 countries received ISO 14001 certificates. The standard was created in 1996 to help companies create their own environmental management system and performance measures to reduce their impact on the environment.
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