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MERRY CHRISTMAS

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BBM Christmas Wishes

It has been a busy year for us all here at BBM and we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! We are once again sending an e-card this year. The money saved has been donated to Cool Earth, helping to safeguard endangered rainforest. Since 2009 BBM have secured 20 acres of Peruvian rainforest, protecting 4795 trees and locking in the equivalent of 5,196 tonnes of carbon!

Why save rainforest? Rainforests cover only about 6% of the world’s surface and yet contain more than two thirds of the biodiversity and absorb about half of the world’s carbon. We have now secured 20 acres of rainforest, each acre generates about 76,000 tonnes of fresh water into the global rain cycle annually. However every year deforestation puts more CO2 into the atmosphere than the entire global transport sector.

Merry Christmas!

BBM CHRISTMAS WISHES!

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Merry Christmas

We would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! Here is a sneak peak of the BBM Christmas e-card designed in house.

The money saved by sending e-cards has been donated to Cool Earth, helping to safeguard endangered rainforest. SInce 2009 BBM have secured 18 acres of peruvian rainforest, protecting 6720 trees and locking the equivalent of 7280 tonnes of carbon! For further details on Cool Earth and how to make a donation click here. 

COOL EARTH

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Carbon Offsetting

Charity: Cool Earth

The Cool Earth website

Location: Ashaninka, Peru

Further details: http://bbm-architects.co.uk/portfolio/carbon-offsetting/

Since 2009 BBM have donated money, which formerly had been used for printing and posting Christmas cards, towards safeguarding areas of the virgin Ashaninka rainforest of Peru through the charity, Cool Earth, who work alongside indigenous villages to halt rainforest destruction. The Ashaninka are Peru’s largest indigenous nation. They have lived in Peru’s Central Selva for thousands of years and their way of life depends entirely upon the forest. The below icons show our running contribution totals. 

Ten years ago (2003) the community of Cutivireni was 200 miles from the arc of deforestation. By 2008, the loggers were one mile away and offered hard cash for their trees. With every family below the poverty line but desperate to keep their forest standing, the village elder, Cesar Bustamante, contacted Cool Earth. Five years on not a single tree has been lost to loggers.

Why save rainforest? Rainforests cover only about 6% of the world’s surface and yet contain more than two thirds of the biodiversity and absorb about half of the world’s carbon. Each acre generates about 76,000 tonnes of fresh water into the global rain cycle annually but every year deforestation puts more CO2 into the atmosphere than the entire global transport sector.

For further information please visit the cool earth website here.

BBM CHRISTMAS DOO 2015

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For their Christmas Do this year, BBM spent the day in London.

Starting at King’s Cross where the team were almost whisked off to Hogwarts, they made their way across to UAL’s Central Saint Martin where they stopped for a couple of games (albeit with illegal rules) of table tennis and a quick coffee.

BBM had a lovely lunch at The Modern Pantry at Finsbury Square before walking up the 311 steps of Monument and back down. They ended the day with a visit to The World of Charles and Ray Eames exhibition at the Barbican.

Scroll through the images to see it all!