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Green Guardian Awards 2008
Green Guardian Awards 2008
Celebrating Green Kingston
Celebrating Green Kingston is an initiative to bring, under one umbrella event, three recognised environmental awards in the Borough: Kingston in Bloom, Green Guardian Awards and Sustainable Transport Awards. The idea is to promote a sense of collective achievement by recognising and valuing individual efforts and their positive contribution to tackle bigger environmental issues, such as Climate Change. This is the first year of this event and we expect it to grow year after year, setting the foundation for a strong network that supports and encourages environmental actions in the borough.
Green Guardian Awards 2008
The Green Guardian Awards celebrate the environmental achievements of individuals, groups, business and schools in Kingston and across South West London. There are plenty of initiatives, some very creative, happening in the borough to reduce the negative impact that we all have on the environment.
This award intends to bring these projects to light, recognise the efforts of those involved and learn from their experience, enthusiasm and initiative. We want to create a community that moves together towards a more sustainable lifestyle.
Last year’s winners found the awards to be a major boost to their work. “I am delighted and astonished to win. It is also very encouraging. Being green is a habit and people get into bad habits, but it is a lot easier if you are not wasteful”, said Effie Mackensie, ‘Green Household’ winner in 2007.
“We were really pleased that our hard work has been recognised. It has inspired us to think about doing more growing on our vegetable patch”, said Jo Compton from Tolworth Girls’ School, winners of the Green Secondary School award.
List of Winners
| Category | Winner | Winner Photo | Runner up | Commended | Special recognition |
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| Green Champion | Martin Birley |
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Simone Kay | Phillip Moss | Lynette Phillps |
| Young Environmentalist | Fox Carson & Clover Carson (Joint award) |
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| Green Business | Green Mobile (Johan Thomsen) | Kingston University + KUSCO (Joint award) | 1-Campion Timber (Terry McDermott) 2-Riverside Vegetaria (Ritchie Sakthivel) 3-Straker Cleaning (Chris Straker) | ||
| Green Project or Group | School Food Matters (Stephanie Wood) |
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Ecological Footprint Working Group (Jhon Fellowes) | 1-Towards a Plastic-Bag-Free Kingston (Marilyn Mason) 2-Kingston Fairtrade Steering Group (Jeannette James) 3-Sustainable Gardening Group Kingston (Ann Lynn) 4-Refugee Action Kingston (Rebecca Mear) | |
| Green Building | Water and Energy Efficient Homes Ltd (Gwenda Mark) |
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The Rotunda (Dave Harper) | ||
| Green Primary School | St John's C of E Primary & Nursery (Jean Green) | St Andrew's & St Mark's Juniors (Caroline Case and Leanne Bannister) | Our Lady Immaculate RC. Primary (Sandra Batty) | ||
| Green Household | Richard Hart | Mark Atkinson | Sandra and Ben Batty | Hazel Pretty |
Photos from the Event 2008
| Description | Photo |
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| Brian Mark Energy Expert |
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| Cllr Bob Steed |
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| Kingston in Bloom Display |
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| Sean Dougan Guardian Group Editor |
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| Rob Dickson - Service Director Environment and Sustainab |
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