Love Your Greenest County!
The latest phase in Claydon Court’s decade-long fight against climate change in Suffolk takes place on Wednesday 14th of February. “We’ve chosen Valentine’s Day deliberately to symbo...
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Category: Carbon Champions
January Carbon Champions
Every month at Claydon Court, we recognise ‘Carbon Champions’ i.e. people taking action to fight climate change. The joint winners in January are Wayne from Strident Technology and Laura...
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Why people (still) matter more than paper
One of the things we’re tackling this year is helping people cut carbon from the stuff they buy. In quality systems this means creating a Sustainable Procurement Policy and is usually long, ...
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Sudbury rugby explores EV chargers
Sudbury RUFC are the first rugby club in the county to express an interest in ‘Plug In Suffolk’. A key part of the Suffolk Greenest County initiative, the Plug In Suffolk programme provides ...
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Putting Suffolk Rugby in touch with EV Charger funding
We’re keen to get amateur rugby sites involved with the great Plug In Suffolk programme too. Below is the map showing where they are located. All clubs can apply, but some are in more sparse loc...
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25 By 25: Neutral Territory
As part of our contribution to the Suffolk 25 By 25 project I’m interviewing companies involved every week until 2025 arrives – just 49 weeks to go. To get this rolling I’v...
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Ensuring a straight drive to EV Chargers for Suffolk Cricket
Plug In Suffolk is part of the ‘Greenest Suffolk’ initiative and provides fully funded (yes, fully funded) community EV Charger sites across the county. It’s the sort of action every count...
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Creating a long term (game) plan
One of the problems of being self-motivated by something means you often forget that people might not be as keen as you. And so it comes to pass with sport or business, you have to be motivate o...
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Suffolk 25 By 25 – The clock is ticking
The Suffolk 25 By 25 campaign encourages organisations to commit to reducing carbon emissions by 25% by 2025. In the New Year I’ll be interviewing an organisation every week who’s taken the pledge...
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Carbon ACTION Advent Calendar
Our Carbon Champions programme is providing ways that people can TAKE ACTION to save carbon every day between now and Christmas Day. Daily actions are posted on their site and on Instagram, tech skill...
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Money, Management, Motivation. Survey results are in.
Thanks to the clubs that took part in this survey. The findings are … The top three BARRIERS to fighting climate change were lack of money, lack of guidance and lack of people. The bottom three ...
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Top three barriers to fighting climate change anyone?
Do you know the top three barriers to fighting climate change in amateur sport? Me neither, but with YOUR help we might find out. All you have to do is take part in our simple Onlin...
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Carbon Champions Pilot Programme
After a LOT of work we are finally testing Carbon Champions with potential users. Our Pilot Programme involves through November and aims to iron out inevitable glitches before launching wider. If you&...
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Eliminating transport emissions at ‘The Green’
Eight Ash Green Cricket Club has been measuring, offsetting and reducing its carbon emissions for over a decade. It took another step up this year by formally committing to Carbon Net Zero by 2030 and...
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Suffolk 25 By 25 campaign reboot
Remember the Suffolk 25 By 25 campaign? Possibly not. Launched in May top much acclaim, interest seems to have since waned. But we’re bringing it back in the spotlight and not just for business....
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Carbon Champions v2.9 release notes
The latest version of our Carbon Champions online platform (v2.9) has been released. We used to call this our carbon calculator but the scope has widened (doesn’t it always) and the addition of ...
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Online Platform: Integrated 3D Calculator, Gamification and EMS
Online communities and online learning are fine, but exist only to enable you to TAKE ACTION. To do this, you need our online platform. Our platform started life as a carbon calculator, an essen...
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Online Platform: Shifting to Experiencify
Carbon Champions is designed so that anyone can use it without training. But to do more, carbon champions will need to learn more. So we’ve provided online learning to help you. Cours...
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Online Community: Swapping to Discourse
A lively online community is essential to making Carbon Champions work, especially if run by volunteers with limited resources. Our first stab at this is below and reflects our original Nine Missions....
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(Carbon) Neutral Territory at last?
Although we’ve measured, offset and reduced our carbon emissions for over a decade, we’re not allowed to call ourselves ‘carbon neutral’. That’s because these two words are reserved by...
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