Parkside’s latest Festival of Sustainability saw an inspiring night of talks from green thinkers and innovators.
Held within Clerkenwell’s dramatic Crypt on the Green, the latest event in Parkside’s Festival of Sustainability series saw a large audience from within the architecture, design and specification communities learn from green thinkers on a wide range of topics, including how they can deliver more sustainable specifications.
Raising the need for a world of ‘green ninjas’, exploring materials made from old denim and clothing, telling positive stories from the company’s 40 for 40 programme with the World Land Trust and discussing the importance of a sustainable environment for building better communities and improving wellbeing; it was certainly a varied night of sustainability discussions. Speakers featured Anthony Gray from PLANQ furniture, Dr Aidan Bell of Envirobuild, Dan Bradbury from the World Land Trust and Hannah Lacey of the National Environment Research Council.
James Journet, sales design director, Parkside, hosted the evening which ended a frank panel discussion with probing questions from the audience. He says, “This is the third Festival of Sustainability and to see so many people from the industry in attendance was a fantastic thing. Dr Aidan Bell touched on how those that care about the environment are in the minority of the wider public conscious, but that by becoming ‘green ninjas’ they can drive change.
“That’s our hope as a company, that through talking about sustainability in an open and frank way at the festival, as well as offering a range which includes a growing number of sustainable tiling choices, we are part of the change being seen right across the sector and giving specifiers more opportunity to become a ‘green ninja’ in the specification of tiled surfaces within their project.”
The festival came shortly after Parkside’s launch of the world’s first 91% recycled content mass produced tile, Principle. A partnership with Alusid – a low impact material specialist born from a research project at the University of Central Lancashire – the tile is exclusive to Parkside and represents one of a growing number of sustainable tiling choices now available from the tile specification company.
Parkside will announce plans of its next Festival of Sustainability soon. For more on the Carbon Balanced company’s positive actions to bring sustainable choices to specifications, visit parkside.co.uk/sustainability.