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Observer Ethical Awards 2015: shortlist

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Find out who made the shortlist for the Observer Ethical Awards 2015

Community energy project award

Sponsored by National Grid

The Low Carbon Hub

The Low Carbon Hub is a social enterprise that works to lower carbon emissions across Oxfordshire by helping businesses, the public sector and communities to develop renewable energy projects and reduce energy demand.

Plymouth Energy Community

Plymouth Energy Community aims to help local people and organisations in Plymouth transform how they buy, use and generate power in the city.

Repowering London

Repowering London aims to educate people and help facilitate the integration of energy efficiency and energy generation into their daily life, community and their environment.

Ecover young green champions

Sponsored by Ecover

@MiniHorts

Wicor Primary School’s gardening club @MiniHorts run a project providing organic boxes for parents and carers containing home or school grown fruit, vegetables, eggs and honey.

Andover Trees United

A community group based in Andover, Hampshire, designed and created a new woodland area open to everyone in the local area. Giving participants the opportunity to learn about the importance of caring for our natural environment and the vital role of trees in carbon capture.

Funelling 4 Fuel

Avonbourne College adapted the concept of eco-funnels, distributing them through schools and colleges to benefit their local communities. They also diversified and created another revenue stream by getting local businesses to donate their waste oil to be turned into bio-fuel.

The sustainable style award

In partnership with Eco Age

Nudie Jeans

Swedish denim label Nudie Jeans recommend people don’t wash their new jeans for at least six months. Nudie have opened satellite repair stores around the world where customers can take their worn trousers in for a free fix up.

Here Today Here Tomorrow

Here Today Here Tomorrow is a sustainable fashion studio shop based in London. They create design-led, high quality, ethically made products that customers will not only love wearing but also feel good about buying and will cherish for years to come.

Java Rock Necklace

The Java Rock Necklace, handcrafted by Rosalie McMillan in collaboration with Adam Fairweather, is a piece which combines recycled or Fairtrade sterling silver with Çurface, a beautiful unusual material derived from recycled coffee grounds.

Film and television

In partnership with Bafta

Coronation Street

When relocating Coronation Street to its new home at MediaCityUK, an opportunity arose for ITV to create a step-change with regards to the show’s environmental performance. The team committed to ‘produce a television drama of the highest quality with the lowest possible environmental impact’.

Springwatch

Springwatch was one of the first BBC programmes to take part in the Albert+ sustainability accreditation scheme and have since achieved considerable reach with sustainability messaging across its large cast, crew and supply chain.

Terminally Happy

The Film London-backed short film, “Terminally Happy” sought to implement inventive sustainability at every step of the filmmaking process, from script to screen.

The ethical wildlife award

Dartmoor Pony Training Centre

The Dartmoor Pony Training Centre is a haven for Dartmoor hill ponies, who would otherwise be slaughtered, and for the people lucky enough to train with these same ponies.

The Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

Thanks to the conservation efforts of The Friends, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is home to a bustling population of rare and endangered plants and wildlife. The park has the accolade of being London’s most urban woodland and Tower Hamlets only woodland park.

World Animal Protection UK

World Animal Protection seeks to create a world where animal welfare matters and animal cruelty has ended. To achieve this, it works directly with animals and with the people and organisations that can ensure animals are treated with respect and compassion.

Arts and culture

Festival of Thrift

The Festival of Thrift, which takes place on the upcycled former Patons and Baldwins factory site in Darlington, is an event with an enviable reach and solid community engagement. It puts creative sustainability at the heart of everything it does.

London Theatre Consortium

London Theatre Consortium (LTC) is a 13 strong collaboration of producing theatres. All LTC theatres have stepped forward to take responsibility for using their ability to influence, provoke and illuminate to stimulate and deepen the nature of the public conversation around environmental sustainability.

University of the Arts London sustainable procurement

The University of the Arts London engaged the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply to appraise existing suppliers in terms of their economic, social and environmental sustainability. This has enabled the University to demonstrate to the Arts sector that the organisation is a responsible buyer.