One planet, one exhibition: WWF sponsors Grand Designs Live 2006

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One planet, one exhibition: WWF sponsors Grand Designs Live 2006

Partnership to promote sustainable and ethical living to the exhibition’s audience of design fanatics and self builders

2-4 June 2006, ExCeL London

www.granddesignslive.com

www.wwf.org.uk

Grand Designs Live, the record-breaking exhibition based on the hugely popular Talkback THAMES series for Channel Four, today announces major sponsorship from WWF for 2006.

WWF, the world’s largest independent conservation organisation, committed to promoting the use of sustainable materials and reducing waste, pollution and unnecessary consumption, will be represented by a state-of-the-art feature at the show. The feature will be designed to communicate the principles of One Planet Living (OPL) and demonstrate to the exhibition’s expected 50,000-strong audience how their homes and behaviour can be more energy efficient and sustainable, benefiting the environment as well as their health.

The charity will also use Grand Designs Live 2006 to launch the Little Guide to One Planet Living. The book is an aspirational guide to sustainable and ethical living, with a foreword written by design guru and Grand Designs TV presenter Kevin McCloud.

McCloud, recently announced as a WWF ambassador, is well known for his passionate commitment to the use of sustainable materials in domestic and commercial build developments. He comments: ‘I am delighted that WWF have not only lent Grand Designs Live such support but have also collaborated with the event so closely. The way we build our houses and the way we live in them have a profound impact on the planet’s well-being as well as our own.

Sustainability has moved from being a fringe issue to something that touches every aspect of our lives and so it’s absolutely appropriate that the WWF One Planet Living campaign should have such a central presence at Grand Designs Live.’

WWF will also work with Grand Designs Live to make the exhibition more ‘green’, advising the show organisers on everything from CO2 emissions to sustainable materials procurement and ethical catering.

Paul King, Director of WWF’s One Million Sustainable Homes campaign, said: ‘Our homes and communities have a significant impact on the environment, both during their construction and whilst we live in them. The challenge therefore is to find ways for people everywhere to enjoy a high standard of life, without exhausting the planet’s natural resources.

‘We’re delighted therefore to be at Grand Designs Live this year, with the opportunity of speaking to thousands of people interested in design and new technology. After all, if everyone on the planet continues to consume natural resources and generate carbon dioxide at the rate we do in Europe, we’ll need three planets to support us!’

About the show

Grand Designs Live is a broad-based show, containing five distinct but closely related sections – GRANDInteriors, GRANDBuild, GRANDGardens GRANDKitchens+Bathrooms, and Design Shopping Arcade. Each hall will contain themed clinics with experts on hand to offer visitors advice on their own design projects, however large or small.

The exhibition is a spectacularly vibrant show which aims to inform, excite and inspire visitors to create their own ‘Grand Design’ – with everything they need from around the world available to purchase under one-roof.

Along with an exciting celebrity line-up, the show offers an extensive seminar programme and numerous live demonstrations throughout the three-day event for those seeking advice or conducting fact-finding research.

All Grand Designs Live visitors will have the chance to:

* Purchase products and materials on the day from exhibiting companies
* Attend the FREE seminar programme of top industry speakers
* Rub shoulders with an array of top TV celebrities from design, property, lifestyle and the culinary arts
* Be inspired by the interactive features, displays and range of companies
* Watch LIVE demonstrations
* Get access to industry experts for advice

The Grand Designs TV series is produced by talkbackTHAMES, one of the leading UK production companies, owned by FremantleMedia.

For further information, please contact:

Tara O’Brien or Liz Eyarhono
Midnight Communications
01273 666 200