Posted: June 30th, 2011 | Author: Steph | Filed under: Environment, Film, Green, News | Tags: Affinity Sutton, Green Stories, twenty%extra™ | No Comments.
If you’re regular – and I hope there’s a few of you – you’ll know that we’ve been working on the Greens Stories project for Affinity Sutton since October last year. We are really, really pleased to say that the final part of the project – the films – are in the can and on YouTube. You can vote for your favourite on the Affinity Sutton website.
Of course we’re totally impartial and without sounding like a swarmy game show host, all the competition winners were top folk and dead lovely to work with.
The films feature pensioners with attitude Jeannie & Eddie and their Guerrilla Vegetable Gardening, Phil the Power Saver telling us how we too could have Smarter Energy Use, Christine, Ian & Tom with their ambitious yet eco-friendly Community Growing Gardening Project in Stoke, Rob who has been patiently creating his very own Open source Carbon Calculator and Brian, Steph & Tony who took matters into their own hands to create a Recycling Revolution in Middlesbrough.
On July 20th Affinity Sutton will be screening the films and announcing the final winner of the competition. The prize is a weeks holiday at the Eden Project.
They were all an inspiring bunch who are the real faces of everyday activism. People creating changes in their lives and their communities; it’s heart warming stuff y’know.
Posted: March 16th, 2011 | Author: Steph | Filed under: Community, Film, Green, Photography, Workshops | Tags: Affinity Sutton, Green Stories, twenty%extra | No Comments.
Last week the twenty%extra team packed our backpacks and headed off to Middlesbrough, Stoke-on-Trent and East Grinstead to start part two of Green Stories for Affinity Sutton.
We got the chance to meet the 5 finalists of the Green Stories competition, learning about their personal stories of how they improved sustainability, energy use to recycling in their community. We have to say, they were a lovely bunch and made us laugh (a lot) throughout our workshop sessions.
The photographs above (yeah there are a few!) are of one of the projects in Stoke, a resident led community & garden centre. Watch out for part three where we will be making short films of each of the projects.
Posted: March 16th, 2011 | Author: Steph | Filed under: Advertising, Community, Green, News, Photography | Tags: Affinity Sutton, Green Stories, twenty%extra | No Comments.
Affinity Sutton has taken an innovative and creative approach to engage their residents into green issues.
Last year we started working them to create a marketing campaign to encourage the early adopter green residents to share their Green Stories by making 6 short films, which in return will inspire other residents to recycle and make positive eco choices.
Above is the fabulous, Vee, who started modelling at the grand young age of 70. She has appeared in ads fromVogue to Harry Potter to Mickey D’s, so we were very pleased she was available for our shoot!