Environmental Report for 2009

Following up on the runaway success of our Environmental Report 2008, the team and I have come up with the sequel... the Environmental Report 2009! You can download it here Annual Environmental Report 2009. To summarise we were directly responsible for 125.07 tonnes of CO2e. That’s not that much better than the previous year (136.79 tonnes CO2e) but that’s because the carbon footprint only tells a small part of the story. So much else has happened in 2009 including major changes to our Cafe supply chain, the start of our garden, our own eco-build (Training Room 3) and lots and lots of research into water, waste, passive heating/ventilation, climbing holds, recyclable paper and so much more.

If you have any questions about this, just send me an email: Audrey@castle-climbing.co.uk

Office chairs

We need some new office chairs so I researched 'eco' chairs - I found a company called Steelcase who manufacture operator, manager and boardroom chairs to a high environmental standard.

See http://www.steelcase.co.uk/en/company/environment/pages/overview.aspx

Then I located a company who refurbish these chairs second hand (being good quality they can take some refurbishing). So we will get a few of these and see how they work out.