Equa Sponsers Ethical Fashion Show
Equa are sponsoring a fantastic ethical fashion show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London on Sunday 9th November.
The show is part of the V&A’s Conscious Style day, an event to explore the growing popularity of ethical fashion, with swishing, styling workshops, talks and the fashion show, all taking place in the V&A’s new Sackler Centre for education.
The fashion show will feature high street and one-off pieces by labels such as Noir, Del Forte, People Tree, Stuart & Brown, Amana and Wildlifeworks.
All events are free. No prior booking is required; some events will be ticketed on the day as numbers may be limited. Tickets for the fashion show available from 1pm. For the full programme visit Conscious Style at www.vam.ac.uk/events.
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July 28, 2010
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Green Awards celebrate ecological business practices
The Global Green awards reward companies which have made contributions to environmentally friendly or sustainable business 
practices, consumers can find out about the green business practices of previous winners or follow this year’s awards on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.
The Global Green awards, previously the Green Awards, are awarded to companies within the media and marketing industries which have undertaken creative work demonstrating the importance of corporate social responsibility, sustainable development and undertaking ethical business practices.
2010, the fifth year of the awards, is the first year in which all the categories in the Green Awards have been open to entries from around the world. Award categories include Best Green educational product, best green international campaign, best green product innovation and best green packaging.
The Green Awards are designed to drive others towards the sustainability agenda by celebrating environmentally friendly practices. Consumers can inform themselves of more environmentally friendly product choices by following past winners and their ecologically friendly products or campaigns on the Green Awards Website.
Examples of past winners include chocolate company Cadbury, which won the best green packaging awards in 2008 for their ‘eco-eggs’ – chocolate eggs wrapped with the minimum amount of packaging and using recycled material; and multinational mobile phone company O2, which received an award in 2006, for reducing packaging.
The competition officially opens on Monday, July 19, when entry forms are made available for any companies wishing to be considered for an award. Though entrants cannot be viewed by members of the public until the shortlist is announced in mid-October, the awards can be followed through social networking sites Facebook, Twitter and MySpace; more information can also be found about past winners at www.greenawards.com. The awards ceremony will take place in London later this year.
Previously this year the winners of the European Business awards for the Environment were announced on June 2. The awards have four categories, products, international co-operation, management and process, rewarding companies that pioneer green practices.
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July 24, 2010
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The Observer Ethical Awards: Shortlist Announced
After a hotly contested debate the shortlist for The 2010 Observer Ethical awards, in association with Ecover, is announced
today. Now in their fifth year the awards pay tribute to those that have an innovative way of looking at ethical issues and those who create practical solutions to these problems. In previous years the awards have attracted a diverse selection of winners from famous figures such as Ken Livingstone and David Attenborough to community projects such as Ethical Kids winners, Lomeshaye Marsh Local Nature Reserve and Stockbridge Junior Rangers.
A record number of entries was whittled down in the last round by the esteemed panel of judges that included Colin Firth, actor; Ben Fogle, TV presenter; Sue Perkins, comedian; Kate Humble, TV presenter and Ben Okri, author, and was chaired by Lucy Siegle, ethical living correspondent, The Observer.
The full shortlist
Those selected by The Observer readers:
Best Local Retailer:
Infinity Foods Shop & Bakery
Local Roots and Wellie Boots
Growing Communities
Best Online Retailer:
Riverford Organic
Abel & Cole Ltd
Frugi
Politician of the year:
Caroline Lucas
David Cameron
Ed Miliband
Campaigner of the year:
Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall
Joanna Lumley
Jamie Oliver
Those selected by the judging panel:
Ecover Ethical Kids award:
Charlton Manor Primary School
The Green Team
The Recyclists
Jupiter Big Idea award:
The Wool Packaging Company Ltd (WoolCool).
Aquamarine Power
Resomation Limited
Ethical Business award:
Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate
Ecotricity
B & Q
Fashion and Accessories sponsored by Marie Claire:
Antiform – ReMade in Leeds
From Somewhere
Pachacuti
Conservation award sponsored by National Grid:
Echoes of Blackburn Meadows
Blue Ventures Community-Based Marine Conservation
Pestival
Grassroots Project:
Project Dirt
Liftshare
Abundance
For more information on The Observer Ethical awards and the shortlist visit: www.observer.co.uk/ethicalawards.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony, hosted by Colin Firth and Lucy Siegle, in June at a location in London.
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June 2, 2010
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Winner of UK heats for innovation awards announced
The government yesterday (March 3rd) announced the winners of the UK heats of a Europe-wide competition to produce the most innovative solutions to pressing environmental problems.
Among the successful companies were the Coal Authority, for its minewater treatment scheme; Nuphalt Ltd for its infrared road repair system; Agfa Graphics for its profess efficiency and Toyota UK for its success in reducing carbon emissions.
Dan Morris, the environment minister, revealed the UK representatives at a ceremony at the Royal Society yesterday.
“All of our winners have shown great innovation and invention with new products, processes and systems which provide improved environmental performance and importantly, value for money for their customers,” Mr Morris said.
All will go on to compete at the European Business Awards for the Environment, the entrants of which will revealed after the panel meeting concludes on March 12th.
The UK has so far won at least one award in each round since 1994 and has more entries overall than any other European nation.
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March 9, 2010
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Announcing the winners of the Responsible Tourism Awards 2009
Virgin Holidays are proud to announce the winners of the Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards 2009
Almost 600 unique organisations, individuals and destinations were nominated from all over the world for making a real difference to local communities and the environment.
The Responsible Tourism Awards are the most competitive and prestigious awards of their kind in the world and are a collaboration between online travel directory responsibletravel.com, who founded and organise the Awards, UK media partners The Daily Telegraph and Geographical Magazine, and World Travel Market, who host the Awards ceremony (read more about our Partners).
The panel of expert judges had a difficult job when it was time to choose the winners:
“Working our way through this year’s long lists, we were impressed by the willingness of so many organisations to take responsibility and to do what they can to help make better places for people to live in and better places for people to visit. Despite the economic difficulties being faced by the travel and tourism industry, responsible tourism continues to move ahead and I’m continually impressed as more is achieved by more people. As judges we are all very aware of the great work that is being done by so many and our decisions are often very difficult and sometimes long debated.” – Dr. Harold Goodwin, Director, International Centre for Responsible Tourism and Chair of Judges
The overall winner: Whale Watch Kaikoura, New Zealand
The judges declared Whale Watch Kaikoura, New Zealand the overall winner with the following statement.
“Rarely do we see a tourism initiative developed from the ground up by a local community to such a successful and grand scale – growing from modest beginnings to securing in a joint venture with Sea World on the Gold Coast of Australia to provide their whale watching.
Whale Watch Kaikoura provides consistently responsible whale watching tours with minimal impacts. The founding of the enterprise by four Maori families has demonstrated that the local Maori community can not only grow a considerable tourism business, but, more significantly, use that business to buy back their ancestral land for the benefit of the indigenous people and their cultural identity.”
For contact details for Whale Watch KaiKoura, New Zealand, and all of the winners from this years Responsible Tourism Awards, please check out Responsible Tourism Awards.com and make your next holiday, an eco-responsible one!
December 7, 2009
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