CEF Public Sector Award Winner 2010 - Sustainability Committee ESB Wilton

The Sustainability Group in ESB Wilton took the prize in the Public Sector category this year. This committee have stimulated an extraordinary range of work within their own organisation, inspiring fellow employees and managers alike with their enthusiasm to tackle the ecological footprint of their operations. Michael Hobbs, Chairman of CEF and nominating member for this award, likened their work and spirit to that of a Transition Town group leading change in their own community.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• local
• environmental
• sustainable
• cork
• ireland
• action
• environment

[CorkEnvironForum]

@yourgardens Once again - that award went to a group of individuals who work for the ESB and have gone far out of their way to promote sustainability within a large organisation. This prize has nothing to do with who their employers are or what their employers are in the news for.

They earned that award through hard work, initiative and positivity. But if making the world a better place was as easy as leaving abusive comments on the internet under a pseudonym, wouldn't that be great?!

[yourgardens]

Hi, im sorry but im not convinced! Electric bikes, why not good old fashioned pedal power, why electric doors and not manual, why electric hand drier. and lets not forget the ESB's Moneypoint coal-fired power plant at Kilrush belching out 4.7 million tonnes of CO2 into our atmosphere. Why ESB for an environmental award?

[CorkEnvironForum]

@yourgardens Hi there, thanks for your comments. Just to be clear on this one - the ESB weren't the recipient of this award, it was a voluntary committee set up by staff within that organisation that received it. The work they do serves as a great model for staff in other big companies to show how leadership can emerge from the bottom up within an organisation with a lot of cooperation and a lot of dedication. Do agree with you on over-reliance on electricity, even if wind-powered.

[yourgardens]

@corkenvironmentalforum you are a disgrace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just look at what happened to the 65 year old lady in tullamore who tried to stop esb from ruinin her own privately owned forest! 18 days in mount joy and counting!!!!! CEF are fukin sell outs!!!!!!!! Who are you anyways!!!!!! i have never seen you around cork except for you award day around Xmas where you hand out prezies to big corps!!!!