Local school children from All Saints Stibbard Church of England Primary School in Fakenham, Norfolk, picked up their litter grabbers and set to work on their very own community clean-up operation, to help raise awareness of Greener Together – the co-operative way, an initiative run by Co-operatives UK.
Account3, an East London co-operative offering a range of training, enterprise and development services, has proved its environmental credentials by gaining a Green Mark.
To help celebrate Energy Saving Week (25-31 October), Greener Together – the co-operative way is launching a new monthly e-newsletter packed full of competitions and incentives as well as handy tips to help those signed up to the project save even more energy and live greener.
Chepstow villagers became recycling ambassadors, after hosting a fantastic Community Recycling Day recently where over 50 guests took part in activities including scarecrow making.
Sustainability and environment - exploring how co-operatives can deliver in different areas such as energy generation, saving, supply, retrofit, low carbon new build housing and individual behaviour change www.greenertogether.coop (climate change)
The Greener Together toolkit has been designed to support people taking practical actions that create change around the themes of energy, waste and personal travel and to guide working with others through collective action.
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The Greener Together project is a co-operative initiative which aims to help people to live in a more sustainable way.
The Southampton-based and Co-operatives UK member, Total Coverage received the award in recognition for completing the Greener Together – the co-operative way project.
Linda Bratcher, Sales and Marketing Director at Total Coverage, said: "As a co-operative, we have a very ethical and environmental ethos at our heart and so joining up to the Greener Together project was ideal for us."
The Co-operative Group, one of the top two "greenest" supermarkets in the UK, has gone one step further to reduce its carbon emissions by signing up to a green initiative.
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