Winning Streak

Does your business deserve an Award for Excellence? If you’ve integrated responsible business practice into mainstream operations and brought a positive change in the workplace, the marketplace, the environment or the community, Business in the Community wants to hear from you by 11 March.
www.bitc.org.uk/awards,
020 7566 8666 Clever energy management is a vital ingredient in hitting big carbon cuts. That’s why the Energy Institute wants to honour an Energy Manager of the Year – someone who’s made a difference to energy efficiency, promoted technology innovation or motivated colleagues. Closing date 4 March.
www.energyinst.org.uk,
020 7467 7173 Know of any housing projects so innovative that they should be held up as a model for others around the world? The World Habitat Awards recognise settlement projects that provide practical and imaginative solutions to housing problems and offer residents a sustainable future. Closing date 1 June.
www.bshf.org,
01530 510444 Nepalese teacher Mahabir Pun, winner of the Global Ideas Bank’s Social Innovation Awards, helps people keep in touch in some of the world’s remotest villages and outlying yak farms. Using a makeshift mix of solar power, modified TV satellite dishes in tall trees, and wireless computer networking technology, he hooks them up via relay stations to an internet service based in Pokhara. The project (see www.nepalwireless.net) is now being expanded to give children access to distance learning.
www.globalideasbank.org “The amount of nuclear waste that has been produced in England since we began here in 1950 can be contained in a 10-metre box. If it’s well packed in reinforced concrete, it can simply be stored in my backyard.” Professor James Lovelock – making himself a candidate for the next series of ‘Neighbours from Hell’

27 January 2005