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.
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Clerkenwell Design Week
11 May 2010
Colin Crooks, Green-Works CEO will be hosting 2 presentations on Tuesday 25 May at Clerkenwell Design Week, covering aspects of sustainability and re-use of furniture.Clerkenwell Design Week is a three-day annual festival celebrating London’s creative heart. This festival will offer exclusive product launches from some of the worlds leading design brands as well as exciting seminars, workshops, art installations and music. It’s the ideal chance for creatives to network in a relaxed yet stimulating environment. It will inspire, educate and entertain!
Designing in Sustainability
Tuesday 11am - 1pm Eurotek 147-149 Farringdon Road London EC1R 3HN
There is an increasing amount of discussion about the carbon content of manufactured items but what is still often ignored is the enormous material and social cost associated with extracting raw materials and developing them in to manufactured products.
Colin Crooks CEO of Green-Works will discuss the impacts of extracting or logging the raw material that are essential to creating new furniture.
His presentation will cover why accredited supply chains are so important in terms of protecting the environment and in protecting the livelihoods of vulnerable communities. Moreover he will show how good design makes a significant difference to sustainability by potentially reducing the amount of material required both ion the short and long terms.
The Third World: The Realities of Re-use
Tuesday 3pm - 4pm Triumph 16 St Johns Street Clerkenwell, London, EC1M 4NT
Re-use is becoming more and more important in the waste disposal route. It can massively help all sorts of organisations especially those in developing world.
Colin Crooks will talk about Green-Works efforts to divert unwated furniture to Sierra Leone where it is having a massive impact on day-to-day lives of local people; especially the benefits of cabinets and books.
To register for free entry visit clerekenwelldesignweek.com
Green-Works Facts
Green-Works was founded in 2000 by Colin Crooks
The first ever job was to move 8000 desks - with only one small van!
Green-Works has helped over 5,000 charities and organisations providing low cost furniture
We have sent 43 containers of furniture across the developing world
Our volunteers programme has save the state over £500K in social benefit
We have helped our members become more sustainable
Green-Works was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise - Sustainable Development 2008
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