Measuring is … Autonomous
Carbon Champions has a LOT of unique features, and this week we’re featuring autonomy (value 13 of 94). What this means is that carbon champions can measure, offset and reduce carbon emiss...
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Category: Carbon Champions
Techie stuff
Technology has a big part to play in scaling up an initiative like this. Most of our software is open source which means it is free and available to all. This means we can develop applicat...
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Vision and values
The Carbon Champions vision is simple: to create the world’s first carbon net zero national sport. We’re focusing on cricket so this means making all 6,500 recreational cricket clubs in Engl...
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Less is MOR
Carbon neutral / carbon net zero / carbon balanced essentially mean the same i.e. measuring, offsetting and reducing carbon emissions. Measuring emissions currently covers energy, transport and ...
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3D Carbon Calculator
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...
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Fun Skills Winning
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...
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Carbon Centurions
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...
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World’s first carbon balanced cricket club
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...
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Carbon ambitions
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...
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World’s first 3D carbon calculator
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...
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Online cricket community launched
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...
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Carbon Centurions XI
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. ...
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Carbon Centurions on BBC Online
Thanks to BBC Essex for coverage of the launch of Carbon Centurions. Click the image to go to content....
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Carbon Centurions on BBC Look East
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...
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Carbon Centurions in local press
Thanks to Matt Plummer and The Daily Gazette providing a half-page spread Carbon Centurions today. It outlined the work EAGCC has done over the past decade then highlights our launch on Friday 2 Ju...
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Carbon Centurions in The Guardian
Thanks to EAGCC’s Carbon Team of Sam and Anna Collins who featured in a great article in The Guardian today. It not only discusses the Carbon Balancing work the club does but also its other sust...
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First club registers for Carbon Centurions
We’re delighted to welcome Simon Gibbs and Kelvedon & Feering Cricket Club to the Carbon Centurions project! Simon has been a leading light at both Kelvedon and North Essex at many levels, e...
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Captain Tom 100 & MCC Foundation
Everyone remembers Captain Sir Tom Moore and his amazing fund-raising exploits for the NHS in the depths of lockdown. His memory lives on in the Captain Tom Foundation which continues to raise money...
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Cost or Investment?
Most sane people agree that taking action to fight climate change NOW will be a lot cheaper than fighting the consequences LATER. Paying to offset your carbon now isn’t a COST, it’s an INVES...
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Carbon Centurions launches on 2 July
Carbon Centurions launches on 2 July at Eight Ash Green Cricket Club with the President’s Game, a key part of the annual Cricket Week. Whilst the format might be familiar, the teams are ...
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