There are lots of carbon calculators about, but most are one-dimensional. To provide the functionality needed at a carbon community level, the calculator we’ve written for champions is three-dim...Read More
We first encountered the ‘Fun Skills Winning’ mantra about twenty years ago. It was written in large letters in the front of The Australian Schools Cricket Handbook which clearly stated th...Read More
Our 2021 Carbon Centurions project aimed to help 100 clubs become carbon neutral in 100 days. We didn’t quite succeed but got some fantastic publicity to raise awareness (see BBC video here). We a...Read More
Cricket is the sport most affected by climate change, so it’s fortunate we make the cricket community our top priority. That’s as much luck as judgement: it’s a sport we’ve supported and...Read More
As part of our remit to help organisations move to net zero by 2030, we’re piloting new carbon measure, offset and reduce services with organisations based at our Claydon Court HQ. Optional with...Read More
There are lots of ways of describing carbon reduction ambitions. Here are a few of the most popular … Carbon True Zero Making no carbon emissions at all. This is almost impossible to achieve. Ca...Read More
Last year’s Carbon Centurion project highlighted that simple carbon calculators were of limited help to cricket and other communities, sporting or otherwise. To provide the tools needed, Neutral...Read More
As sponsors of Eight Ash Green CC – the world’s first carbon neutral cricket club – Neutral Territory were pleased to sponsor a tree planting project at their ground near Colchester....Read More
The below chart shows the cost of electricity used at our Claydon Court HQ. This is rising slowly and will rise steeply – very steeply – in 2022. There’s not much more we can do to imp...Read More
Another interesting chart is Claydon Court energy emissions. These are steadily falling as the national grid uses more renewables – a rare bit of good news. We offset with World Land Trust (WLT) wh...Read More
We’ve measured electricity use at our Claydon Court HQ since 2009 as the below chart confirms. 2009 and 2010 were pre-extension (Orchard Suite) and are adjusted upwards to reflect this. The dip i...Read More
There’s lots of confusion around at the definitions of carbon neutral, net-zero, carbon negative, Carbon Balanced, etc. In essence, it’s really simple: to get less carbon we need to measur...Read More
We’re celebrating COP 26 (not sure why) by launching a new online community to co-ordinate environmental action at our Claydon Court HQ near Ipswich. This idea is nothing new, and we we first bu...Read More
We’re working with Green Eye Design to maximise the rewilding potential we have at Claydon Court. It all starts next month and we’ll keep you posted....Read More
Compost bins are not only great for er, compost, they’re great for wildlife too. We found slowworms, toads and all sorts living in our big heap in the corner when it was explored last year. We...Read More
Our goal to help EVERY cricket club become carbon balanced takes another big step this week with the launch of Carbon Centurions. Carbon Centurions. provides an online community for the people that ma...Read More
Carbon Centurions launched on Friday 2 July, when a team of players representing clubs supporting the initiative played a team from Eight Ash Green, the world’s first Carbon Balanced cricket club. ...Read More
Thanks to all those who took part in the launch of Carbon Centurions on Friday, 2 July. The sun shone and the BBC did us proud with a fantastic piece on Look East. The game exceeded expectations by mo...Read More