A group of high-profile London 2012 Sustainability Ambassadors paid <a href="http://www.london2012.com/news/2011/11/london-2012-sets-the-standard-for-sustainability.php">a special visit to the Olympic Park today</a> as the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) was recognised for its ground-breaking approach to sustainability.<br/><br/><p>LOCOG has become the first Games Organising Committee to be certified to the British Standard 8901: Specification for a Sustainability Management Systems for Events.</p>
A two-year planting programme to create the UK's largest new urban park for more than a century on the London 2012 Olympic Park has been completed. Some 250 acres of new parklands has been created from former industrial land by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), providing a colourful atmosphere for the London 2012 Games and beyond.
London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) Chair Seb Coe launches a set of bicycles at the British Embassy in Beijing, highlighting London's preparations to stage an environmentally friendly and sustainable Games.
Flowers in bloom in the parkland's area of the Olympic Park looking towards the Olympic Stadium.
<p>Children from a Greenwich school have received awards from triple jump world record holder Jonathan Edwards for their work in transforming a nature reserve.</p><p>The Olympian attended Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys to present awards to the children who took part in Project Develop, part of the <a href="making-it-happen/sustainability/changing-places">London 2012 Changing Places programme</a>.<br aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" jquery1322845508747="330"/><br aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" jquery1322845508747="331"/>With support from local community police and the waterways charity Thames 21, the boys worked hard to clear up local canals and clean graffiti. The project was the first to benefit from the recent grant awarded by the <a href="http://www.saferlondonfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Safer London Foundation Charity</a> to the Changing Places programme.<br aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" jquery1322845508747="333"/></p><br aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" jquery1322845508747="334"/>
Nelson McCausland, Northern Ireland’s Culture Minister and Paul Deighton, Chief Executive, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad were joined by local children at the <a href="events/rediscovering-dunville-fountain.php">Discover Dunville Fountain event</a>, part of <a href="get-involved/cultural-olympiad-x/major-projects/discovering-places.php">Discovering Places</a>.
Jonathan Edwards CBE, gold medallist, triple jump world record holder and Athlete Representative for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG), joined Loyd Grossman OBE FSA, Chair of the Heritage Alliance, at the Houses of Parliament, a world heritage site, to launch the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Discovering Places campaign.
London 2012 Sustainability Ambassador James Cracknell at Upper Hockenden Farm, Swanley in Kent ahead of the publication of London 2012's Food Vision, which sets out London 2012's approach to catering at Games-time venues as it seeks to ensure the best of British food is available to spectators and athletes.
Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) Chairman John Armitt visits Thetford, Norfolk where over 300,000 wetland plants are being grown in preparation for the UK's largest ever urban river and wetland planting at the Olympic Park.
