Archive for the 'environment' Category

Monday, March 14th, 2011

Southampton-based graphic design company, Total Coverage, has been named ‘Co-operative of the Month’, after completing an initiative to become greener and reduce their carbon footprint. The business, established in 1988, which specialises in delivering engaging communications including marketing literature, corporate publications, display graphics and websites, received the award in recognition for completing the Greener Together [...]

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Thanks to winning an eco prize in a recent Greener Together competition, Mark Bratcher from Southampton is the proud owner of a wormery.
Mark says: “I’ve had the thing for a couple of months now, but the worms don’t seem to be that active at the moment, probably due to the cold. I am hoping for [...]

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Linda Bratcher shows off the new radiator booster, one of the latest prizes won through the Greener Together project by the pioneers at Total Coverage graphic design co-operative. Linda says: “The instructions say to place the booster on the top of a domestic water filled radiator, plug it in, and away it goes. They say [...]

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Co-operative director, Kingsley Brown, stops for a well deserved cup of tea! He’s using the new ECO kettle, which was one of the prizes won by our pioneers involved in the Greener Together initiative. Around fifty people from Total Coverage’s network, including families, friends, suppliers and clients have been involved in the year long project [...]

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Total Coverage Creative Director, Adrian Andrews (pictured right) presents David Barnes with a hamper full of goodies. The hamper packed with locally sourced products from community store, Bay Leaves Larder,  is a token of thanks to David for supporting our Greener Together initiative from start to finish. Greener Together aims to help people to live [...]

Friday, March 4th, 2011

For Fairtrade Fortnight 2011 the Foundation have asked the nation to show off about buying Fairtrade which offers 7.5 million people in the developing world a more secure future.

Friday, March 4th, 2011

TC still has one lonely innocent veg pot left! Thai Curry – who is gonna get it? If you would like some veg pots delivered to your door for free why not check out innocent website for details. There are 8 delicious recipes to choose from and they’re ready in just 4 minutes!!! So far [...]

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

As a co-operative, we are totally committed to sustainability: but as graphic designers, we produce a lot of printed work. To help replace the resources we have used, over the last two years Total Coverage paid for 100 trees to be planted through the Trees 4 Business Campaign. To spread the good [...]

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

Total Coverage aims to decrease the amount of energy we use on a continual basis and has pledged to further reduce our carbon emissions. We are committed to the 10:10 initiative. 10:10 is an ambitious project to unite every sector of British society behind one simple idea: that by [...]

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Calling all Total Coverage’s pioneers! For those who still have surveys to complete, get a move on, please get them done this week and don’t forget there are prizes up for grabs. It’s coming to the end of the project and I’d like to thank each and every one of you who have been [...]