Tenants at Claydon Court are the first to benefit from the agreement we have with World Land Trust to measure, reduce and offset their carbon emissions. These totalled just over 100 tons over the p...Read More
This was one of those events which looked good on paper but didn’t quite deliver. ‘Speed presenting’ (ten minute slots each) meant a lot of ground was covered but you suspect left the audien...Read More
Although the economy generally and property sector specifically remains weak, Neutral Territory took the unusual step of tightening entry requirements for tenants. The move was prompted by the wrong t...Read More
Seasons greetings to all our readers! After a quiet end to 2013 we are planning some exciting developments in the New Year. These include separating the Low Carbon Deviants project into it...Read More
A recent report from Lloyd Bank suggests that one in four British small businesses say sustainability is a top priority for 2014. Good to know that Neutral Territory stakeholders are on message a...Read More
Eight Ash Green Cricket Club have signed up to Low Carbon Champions programme that will help them measure, reduce and offset their carbon emissions. Pictured making this historic statement for th...Read More
An article about Newham having the lowest carbon footprint of any borough in the country revealed that the national average is 12.5 tonnes per person per annum. The good news is that Newham is 18 per...Read More
The suspicion that the Suffolk Carbon Charter might prove a proverbial sledgehammer to crack SME nuts is perhaps most justified in its progress reporting device – the Carbon Log (very small...Read More
One of the things that always surprise me is why companies don’t make better use of bright young people. An especially useful vehicle for this is summer internships where you can pick up undergrad...Read More
You don’t need to be Nigel Farage to question the European funding frameworks which underpin the delivery of schemes such as Low Carbon Champions. Cumbersome, complex and costly (anecdotal evidenc...Read More
You don’t have to have been there to realise that the Suffolk Carbon Charter was probably designed by a committee. And a large one at that. Worthy in intent but wieldy in practice it’s a lot l...Read More
The new Low Carbon Deviance site is based loosely on the Low Carbon Champion programme (LCC) run between 2010-2013 by Suffolk County Council. However due to cost of delivery it isn’t a sustainab...Read More
As we have a few tech based companies here is a little comparison. All of these companies work is based around computers and most of the work is done inhouse making them suitable for comparison, howev...Read More
We have eight organisations in Cohort 1. A purposive sample chosen from Claydon Court tenants and other known organisations – perfectly acceptable for case study research like this where we are de...Read More
Met with Will Thomas who from University Campus Suffolk (UCS) to discuss our ideas. Interesting to learn there is an MA in Sustainable Business (with leadership) being launched in September at UCS w...Read More
Met with Will Sambrook of Green Light Trust. Explained background to LCC and how it evolved through earlier learning champions programme. Organisational assessments now moving to individuals based...Read More
Meeting with Ned Harrison who usefully explained what Suffolk County Council are up to at the moment. As Green Economy Officer he is responsible for ‘Growing the Green Economy’ and Programmes. ...Read More
Low Carbon Deviants (LCD) finally kicks off with the arrival of Claire Davies, our intern from the University or East Anglia (UEA). Internships often get mixed press and are reasonably uncommon am...Read More
I’ve dabbled a lot in Moodle over the years as a great open source Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and was tempted to use this to underpin ‘LCC Lite’. There’s a lot of debate ...Read More
Part of the mission of Neutral Territory is to give bright young people the opportunity to work. Internships is one way of doing this so we’ve been in touch with University of East Anglia (UEA) to...Read More
