Last quarter we highlighted our green transport policy and aspirations. This quarter, we've done even better than last. This is especially difficult in an expanding organisation working further and further afield.

Our location close to the train station means we can deter visitors from using private cars, our limited parking availability enforces this! We have a hierarchy of travel planning which is very simple:

Stop travelling - is the journey necessary? Make a phone call, or work from home where possible and practical.

If travel is necessary then bike or walking are the first options. We have ten times the bike parking spaces than vehicle spaces, hot solar showers and changing facilities and a bike to work scheme which many employees have made use of.

Public transport is the preferred mode of travel, as you can see from the results below. All employees are equipped with laptops enabling them to work on the move. We have this quarter eliminated flights altogether - journeys to Europe have all been done by train and bus.

Where public transport is not possible we have a fleet of low CO₂ vehicles, from our ultra efficient Honda Insight (still the most efficient car on the road at 80g/km CO₂) to our biodiesel fueled van which is used for major low energy lighting installations and Light Fantastic events.

We don't use helicopters and try not to fly.

We've recently added to our fleet of low CO₂ vehicles - we now have a canoe. With increasingly regular floods in Shrewsbury, we thought we'd better be prepared!

If you want to find out more about green travel planning or low carbon vehicles, download our Green Driving Guide (http://www.carbonforum.org/downloads ) or pick up a copy of our Eco Vehicles Top Trumps from our Carbon Forum website (http://www.carbonforum.org/product )  

** our 3 company vehicles which are energy efficient, led by the Honda Insight Electric Hybrid (Registration BC02 LOW!) This is a category A vehicle delivering some 83 mpg rated at 80g CO₂ per Km.  The VW caddy has been converted to run on Pure Plant Oil.  This is 100% pure rape seed oil purchased in reusable drums.  Our largest vehicle is our VW transporter which run on a 50/50 local biodiesel / fossil diesel mix.