Green-Works is an award winning social enterprise and registered charity dedicated to helping the environment by diverting redundant office and school furniture from landfill by providing reused and remanufactured furniture to small business, charities, schools and community groups whilst providing training and real work experience to the unemployed.
Green Heroes working for the right kind of environmental change
13 September 2010
Guardian.co.uk article - These 50 green pioneers only scratch at the surface of those whose work is not yet widely known. Who else should we be celebrating?Faced with the mind-numbing bad news about the environment over recent months, a couple of us at the Guardian decided to try to cheer ourselves up by finding examples of the right kind of environmental change. We set out to find 50 green pioneers, people who are making a practical difference but whose work is not yet widely known.
Here's a small selection of the projects that remind us that all is not yet lost - the first 10 are people whose initiatives we find particularly inspiring. There are bound to be plenty of interesting people we have missed, so please add your own suggestions.
Next week we will publish a list of the top 10 green heroes as chosen by you. We'll also run a poll so you can vote for your favourite green hero in the top 10.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/sep/10/green-heroes
Green-Works Facts
Green-Works is celebrating its 10th birthday this year
We were the first to recognise the scale of the commerical furniutre problem with towards 500,000 tonnes of commercial furniture being dumped in landfill every year by companies
Green-Works has helped over 5,500 charities and organisations providing low cost furniture
We have donated 58 jam packed containers of valauable educational and office furniture across the developing world
Our volunteers programme has save the state over £500K in social benefit
We have 5 proceesing centres across the UK which combined offer over 100,000 sq ft of capacity to deal with unwanted items
Green-Works was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise - Sustainable Development 2008
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