March 8, 2010 by leap
After a very in depth accreditation process Leap recently achieved Premier Status in Exeter City Council’s prestigious Green Accord scheme for suppliers.
Green Accord operates in partnership with Global Action Plan (GAP), an independent environmental charity that provides a range of services to businesses, including subsidised help and advice.
The scheme demonstrates best practice and promotes the reduction of environmental impact through the whole supply chain by demanding practical actions and the instigation of alternative working practices. “It’s about deeds not words.”
The system is split into three tiers starting at Select level (red apple status) and increases through Superior level (yellow apple status) to the level that Leap achieved, the highest Premier level (green apple status).
Leap is very proud of its new status and is looking forward to working with Exeter City Council in the near future.
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March 5, 2010 by leap
A couple of weeks ago an article in the Guardian caught our eye: “San Francisco gears up for age of electric car”.
Suzanne Goldenberg, the Guardian’s US environment correspondent stated that: “San Francisco has adopted building codes requiring all new homes and offices to be wired for electric car chargers, in an attempt to position itself as America’s green car capital.”
This move comes as little surprise, proving still further that California is the leading green state in the union. There is worry though from the energy companies and from advisers to Governor ÂSchwarzenegger. Terry Tamminen, Arnie’s energy and environment advisor said: “I have talked to energy executives who are very fearful about what will happen even if you get past 1,000 vehicles,”
With President Obama promising 1,000,000 electric cars on US roads by 2015, sceptics still don’t believe that this is achievable, with only a handful of American cities focusing time and money on founding an electric car infrastructure.
Read the rest of the article here.
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March 3, 2010 by leap
After an 18-month creative relationship codesigning and rebranding the current ShelterBox identity, mainly to bring all the international affiliates on brand and on message, Leap delivered the ShelterBox International website during November 2009. Last week the site was selected by web design journal Smashing Magazine as one of the most useable charity websites in the world.
Once the site was completed and in full operation last year, we handed the site to the ShelterBox marketing team who conseuently employed an agency called Devstars to maintan the site and make some additions.
The ShelterBox site came in at number nine, but when you consider the size and turnover of some of the other charities chosen we think that the site really does stand out.
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The article make special mention of the box counter panel that features on the site\’s homepage that was from the inspired mind of Kieran on our digital design team:
\”By showing the counter and including additional zeroes at the beginning of the total, the user understands that this is an ever-increasing number and therefore, an active campaign.\”
This morning we got a \’massive thank you\’ from ShelterBox. We\’d also like to extend our thanks to everyone at ShelterBox for giving us the opportunity to design for such a worthy cause.
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