Honours for BIG in Green Dot Awards
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 20, 2009
GREEN DOT AWARDS ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE COMPETITION.
Based in York, North Yorkshire and selected from thousands of entries from over 25 countries, Big Ideas Collective Ltd. of United Kingdom was awarded Honourable Mention by the expert industry jury.
The Green Dot Awards strive to reward and promote forward-thinking businesses that create environmentally friendly products or services, rewarding revolutionary green proposals.
Businesses and organizations have become especially aware of the impact that their practices have on the well-being of the planet and many are acting to adopt more sustainable attitudes. The purpose of Green Dot is to reward those who practice excellence in environmental responsibility throughout the world.
Launched in 2008, innovative new creative design and marketing consultancy, the Big Ideas Collective are already making their mark offering direct access to top marketing expertise without the multiple account handlers and large price tags of some of the more traditional agencies. Lean and green BIG offers a new, cost effective and green approach to creative excellence.
Inhabiting no central HQ, tapping into the wealth of talent across the region, Ned Hoste, founder and Co Director of the Big Ideas Collective, has brought together a team of experts you’d be hard pushed to find under the glass tinted roof of any one large marketing agency with a depth of experience that, similarly, would be hard to match. Each member of the Collective’s core team have run their own successful businesses and now, employing collaborative software and online tools, work together within a virtual hub - keeping project costs and carbon emissions low.
BIG’s green aspirations are fundamental to the Collective’s ethos. Delighted with their international recognition Co Director Jacky Fitt explains: “We can help ourselves and our clients leave a lighter carbon footprint. We’re in no doubt that business can and should play a major role in mitigating their consumption where they can and our business model follows that rule at no cost to creativity or excellence.”
Working with businesses that are supplementing or outsourcing their design and marketing needs BIG offers real benefits as Ned points out: “Bringing together such a talented team of people means we can offer a fantastic resource to our clients - a direct line to design and marketing expertise that was previously outside their budgets. We go to our clients, spending important time with them within their businesses.”
A consumer guide to excellence in environmentally-sustainable practices. A business with a Green Dot Award is a business that can be trusted by consumers with stewardship of the environment. Recognition from the Green Dot Awards allows businesses to promote their products and services as items that are manufactured and delivered in an environmentally friendly manner.
Green Dot Awards 2008 jury:
- Kyle D. Brown, Ph.D
- Director, John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies, California State Polytechnic University - Daniel D. Chiras, Ph.D., Author of The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy,
- Peo Ekberg, Environmental Consultant for Sustainability and Lifestyle and CO2 Adviser
- Dave Evans, Author of Cool Green Stuff: A Guide to Finding Great Recycled, Sustainable, Renewable Objects You Will Love
- Steven Foster, President of the Steven Foster Group and commercial consultant for eco-sustainability
- Christine Mason McCaull, Co-founded GoGreen Online, and Go GreenTV
- Shelagh McNally, Editor at Green Living Online & Green Living Enterprises
