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> Harvest Empowers Employees to Go Green
Harvest Housing Group, which has 400 plus staff throughout the North West, is holding ‘environmental cinema nights’ throughout its offices by showing the powerful Al Gore Oscar ® winning documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’.
Gore’s 2006 documentary, which was screened across cinemas worldwide is an honest, frank and explanatory piece of filmmaking which cuts through the myths and misconceptions to deliver the message that global warming is a real and present danger.
Kim Penfold, Group Director Business Development & Strategy, comments:
“If every business in the UK alone shared this footage with its staff then the impact would be huge. If every office cut down on its printing, recycled paper, encouraged its staff to car share and use public transport we would begin that process of making a difference.
This isn’t about sensationalism or shocking our staff into being green – it is about sharing the cold hard facts of our planet’s future.”
Harvest endorses Gore’s persuasive argument that we must act now to reduce global warming. As a housing association, the implications for its work are immense and impact on the way it develops new homes and updates its existing housing so that it remains safe, comfortable and economical to run for residents in the future.
Director’s Secretary Angela Wright, ‘cinema-goer’ at the Group’s first viewing session adds:
“The film made me think not what we should be doing but what we must be doing.”
For more information please visit
http://www.ClimateCrisis.net