UK AWARE is a social enterprise with a conscience and a mission.
We are not scientists, activists or radicals, just normal people wanting to help everyone to make a real and necessary difference.
We realise that to fight climate change we need to make the right choices also the easiest ones. We want to help everyone to live and work more sustainably without needing to sacrifice lifestyle or comfort. The products and services which our exhibitors are showcasing help to do that
Our events are long overdue, but they wouldn't have succeeded before now. Our aim is to stage events every few months across the UK to make them easy for as many people as possible to get to.
The UK AWARE team are a carefully chosen, passionate bunch. We really believe in what we are doing, but we can't do it alone. Why don't you register your interest and we'll keep you in the loop with any developments and news.
Danny
As the founder of UK AWARE, I take comfort in my perception that I'm just an average Joe. I play football once a week, I love snowboarding, I never wear matching socks, I don't enjoy going to weddings, I come from a one parent family, I live in a three bed semi in west London and I still work full time as a fire fighter. I'm just a regular bloke who realises that we, 'normal' people/consumers are the ones who hold the key to fighting climate change. We need easy, green options to be as available and acceptable as conventional ones... if they were made accessable, then which sane person wouldn't choose them?
Jodie
In the summer of 2007 I made perhaps the most difficult decision of my life - to put my comfortable life in Spain on hold after ten years and to channel my energy into what swiftly became the most passionate project I'd ever thrown myself into - UK AWARE. I'd always considered myself to be bit of an environmentalist - from a rural upbringing in the hills of south Shropshire. I'd always been careful, some of my spanish friends would say anal (if they knew the English word for it that is), about my recycling, I'd always take my own bags shopping etc etc. It wasn't until I started working on UK AWARE that I realised the scale of what global warming was capable of- within my lifetime! In the last year or so however, I've also realised the positive potential there is in living in a low carbon economy and how easy it can be. We will live in a world without fossil fuels - you don't need to be Einstein to work that out, the question is are we going to use what's left of them to build a harmonious world we can live in without them or will we use what's left of them shortsightedly without any thought for future generations? Global warming is THE challenge of our species - we need to look it in the eye and tackle it head on.
We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you at our next event.
Danny, Jodie and the UK AWARE team.
