Paint the town green!
Paint the Town Green 2012 will be held in May this year
The Festival is a month of green-themed events and activities around the borough, putting environmental and sustainability issues firmly in the spotlight. The Paint the Town Green Festival has been running for five years and is now the biggest environmental event in the borough.
With events as varied as a public screening of environmental films through to gardening sessions, going green days, road shows and the broadcast of the first Kingston Green Radio, there’s sure to be something to interest everyone.
More and more organisations in the borough are working to protect our environment. From businesses taking significant steps to reduce their environmental impact, to schools, churches, charities and other community organisations joining national efforts to contribute to tackle climate change.
This year, the Paint the Town Green Festival will be promoting the borough's Declaration on Sustainability, which brings focus on what is important in our borough and offers practical ideas on how each of us (businesses, charities, churches, schools and other local organisations) can contribute to a better future.
The Festival is your chance to join the growing number of organisations and businesses in the borough doing their bit for the environment and for a better quality of life.
Register your event below.
Help us to promote the festival. Print the promotional poster and put it up on your window or information board.
See the Paint the Town Green Calendar 2012
Who is Behind the Festival?
Transition Town Kingston (www.ttkingston.org)
A voluntary community-led initiative addressing the twin challenges of declining oil and gas supplies and climate change. It seeks to raise awareness of these issues and implement practical projects to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and our dependency on oil. TTK acts as an umbrella organisationsupporting the community to visualise and move towards a low carbon future.
Save the World Club (www.savetheworldclub.org)
A charitable organisation promoting environmental action and selfempowerment through humour, art, education and entertainment. It aims to promote the protection and improvement of the natural environment by increasing public knowledge and understanding of human behaviour which is not harmful to the Earth.
Kingston Green Radio (www.kigstongreenradio.org.uk)
A local radio dedicated to highlight the environmental challenges of our society, featuring special guests and local experts as well as a hot mix of eclectic classics, bygone nuggets, dance hall stompers and festival favourites.On air from 5 - 25 May 2012.
Greener Kingston (http://e-voice.org.uk/greenerkingston)
A local organisation with the main aim of persuading the UK government to ban, or introduce a realistic levy on plastic bags. Greener Kingston is currently collecting signatures on a petition for a plastic-bagfree London Olympics.
Kingston First (www.kingstonfirst.co.uk)
Kingstonfirst deliver events, services and marketing for Kingston town centre. The Operations Team work to enhance the area’s environment carrying out activities such as graffiti and chewing gum removal, clearing fly-tips and street washing. Kingstonfirst also offer a free recycling service to town centre businesses and fund the town’s hanging baskets.
Kingston University London (www.kingston.ac.uk)
The Hub acts as a focal point for all aspects of sustainability within the University and works to develop local, regional, national and international networks to further the sustainability agenda.
Kingston Environment Centre (www.kingstoneco.org.uk)
A charitable organisation promoting environmental action and self-empowerment through education, skill sharing, community work and mass media. The Charity aims to increase public knowledge and understanding of the natural environment. The centre offers meeting and workshop space, kitchen facilities, office resources and a large garden to groups in the borough interested in promoting environmental awareness. Leaflets and notices about environmental work are on display and there is a growing resource of environmental information of all kinds.
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Join the Paint the Town Green Festival and you will:
- benefit from the marketing campaign around the festival (leaflets, public posters campaign, radio adds and interviews, among others);
- increase clients / consumers confidence in your business / organisation;
- sign the Borough's sustainability declaration and be part of the solution.