From Deviants to Champions
From 1 May our colleagues at action research project Low Carbon Deviants are pursuing their low carbon ambitions as Low Carbon Champions CIC. The ‘deviants’ name came from the Positive Devia...
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Category: Carbon Champions
Low Carbon Champions CIC – Recruiting Now
With 28,625 enterprises with fewer than 20 employees in Suffolk alone (Suffolk Observatory) , the challenge of helping SMEs lower carbon emissions is massive. One way to do this is to use ‘champio...
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Low Carbon Champions CIC announces simple MRO model
Colleagues at Low Carbon Champions CIC suspect one of the barriers to adopting carbon reduction initiatives in very small businesses is the complexity involved in calculating and authenticating saving...
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Neutral Territory first to complete new MRO model
Neutral Territory – the first property company to follow the simple ‘measure – reduce – offset’ carbon reduction model evolved by the Low Carbon Deviants research project...
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Suffolk’s Greenest County Awards
We will be entering both our Neutral Territory property company and our innovative Low Carbon Deviants project into Suffolk’s Greenest County Awards awards shortly. I’m not sure which c...
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First Carbon Balancing purchase with WLT
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...
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Happy New Year!
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...
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EAGCC commits to Low Carbon Champions
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...
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Working Paper
We’ve reached a project milestone at the end of July and celebrated with a short working paper. This can be found here LCD Working Paper 1. Comments welcome....
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Charter flights of fancy?
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...
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Winners and losers?
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...
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As we pick up the stragglers – what will be learnt?
As we reach the point of all the 8 audits being completed soon, I reflect on how easy it has been to gather the information needed to complete them. Those companies who were sat down and data was gath...
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Start of audits
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...
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Views from UCS & World Land Trust
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...
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3 Things Ned taught us – there is more but this will do for now
Met with Ned Harrison from Suffolk County Council today and went through the research proposal for LCD learnt a lot from this. Sounds like there should be a strong force of expertise who will be inter...
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Online Carbon Audits, how good are they?
So the first week working with Neutral Territory has ended. It has been busy and lots of ideas and plans bumbling about just as any good action research project should be! A lot of time has been sp...
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Carbon offsetting
The variety of options available to offset your carbon footprint really is incredible there is a number of worthy causes out there that the money goes towards from planting trees to the production of ...
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Wednesday’s findings
Looking into getting some expert advice to help us along with this project and discovered Adapt who run from the University of East Anglia (UEA) that ‘offers a gateway to research and expertise ...
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And the research has begun
Went through the audit report provided by LCC scheme to strident, extracted the relevant data that was provided and the results of ton of CO2 released for each component electricity, travel etc. Used ...
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Change in web platform
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 ...
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