Carbon Nada think sustainability at The Watershed

Carbon Nada is a London-based organisation aimed at removing carbon footprints for everyone from individuals through to big business. They do this through education, engagement, inspiration and empowerment with their ultimate goal being to reach net zero by 2050.

As well as producing carbon reports and bespoke marketing campaigns, the team at Carbon Nada have also developed tours to showcase sustainable practices used by organisations up and down the country that highlight the difference made to the environment when businesses think and act in a more sustainable way.

Last week Inigo Insurance, a London-based property insurance company, were keen to offer their staff an educational and team building day out. Carbon Nada created a bespoke itinerary for them that started in London with staff boarding electric black cabs and heading south to experience some of Sussex’s finest producers including a cheese dairy, a wine farm, and a wind farm, with the final stop on their tour being our stunning floating venue at Brighton Marina – The Watershed.

Sussex High Weald Dairy was the first stop showcasing the processes on the farm that uses water supplied directly from the River Ouse via the dairy’s own 65-metre-deep borehole as well as solar energy from photo-electric panels that produces half of the electricity used in the dairy that they aim to increase to 100% of the dairy’s electricity needs. Since 2015, approximately 80% of the dairy’s hot water has been provided from a biomass boiler supplied by selective coppicing of the farm’s woodlands.

Bolney Wine Estate was next where the estate demonstrated how they mulch their pruning's back into the soil, they recycle water used in spraying, have installed solar panels on the roof of the winery (this generates 50% of electricity used on site) and bottles used are 100% recyclable and all labels are made from recycled paper. 

Last stop on the tour was our venue at Brighton Marina Yacht Club, The Watershed, where the team planned to head to the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm 13km from the coastline for a tour of the wind farm before receiving a masterclass in sustainable cooking and tucking into a sustainably cooked meal from a top chef:

Beetroot cured salmon, quail egg on stripped beetroots, pickled cucumber with Sussex honey & mustard drizzle

Lamb stew with spitfire ale potato dauphinois and British spring greens

Crushed meringue, pear coulis on meringue nest with shortbread crumbs & creme anglaise

It was a shame that the after effects from Storm Eunice were still being felt so the wind farm tour was cancelled which meant more time at The Watershed with Inigo’s staff competing against each other with a few team building activities.