The ABLE Project: Environmental Revolution!

The ABLE Project

The Green Business Network (GBN) is an award-winning not-for-profit organisation delivering environmental advice and projects mainly in Yorkshire. It has attracted national interest through innovative schemes - such as The ABLE Project - that combine social inclusion, environmental protection / enhancement and economic achievement all at the same time. Through ABLE and its successors, GBN is tackling derelict, underused and neglected public land, hand-in-hand with underachieving young people.

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Environmental Revolution!

The last full week of 2006-2007 was yet another successful week. ABLE was featured every day this week as a mini series on BBC Radio Leeds Breakfast Show. Episode One showcased the fish farming side, Episode Two "the unique green heating system" and Episode Three revealed that "the workforce is pretty startling too". The final episode considered (in the words of the Presenter) "the future of this pioneering project and its constant battle for funding. Unbelievably the ABLE Project has yet to attract Lottery money."

In the BBC Presenter's own words

"the environmental revolution taking place in part of Wakefield" has been "an absolute revelation to me".

Thank you to Radio Leeds for revealing

"one of West Yorkshire's best kept environmental secrets!"

Not content with such extensive radio coverage, ABLE also worked with The Probation Service to spend all weekend planting 1,500 willow cuttings - our first area of willow coppice (photos below)!

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At 5:01 pm, Green Business Network (GBN) said...: some more quotes from Radio Leeds:

Is it a recycling scheme? Yes!
Is it a job creation scheme? Yes!
Is it a CO2 saving scheme? Yes!

It was good to hear Yorkshire Water say that they are "working with .. the Green Business Network to identify other sites (they) could give over"

“Ready and ABLE”

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Overview

The ABLE Project (Wakefield) is a closed loop recycling scheme, also known as “cardboard to caviar”. In 2004, it relocated from Kirklees onto 34 acres of brownfield land at Calder Vale WWTW (see thumbnail above - click to enlarge). The site now comprises a unique fish farm social enterprise (supported by The Coalfields Regeneration Trust), co-located with a modern, meaningful and multifunctional greenspace (funded by Biffaward).

This blog provides an overview of the considerable acclaim which ABLE has received, together with key facts about the project.

In 2006, with the assistance of Recycling Action Yorkshire, the GBN proposed a follow-on scheme "CLONES". Using Calder Vale as the hub, "CLONES" will establish a cluster of best practise sites by replicating the environmentally sustainable ‘ABLE Principles’. These sites will be actively networked to ensure “joined up thinking” and symbiosis.

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