Fun & Games
‘Gamification’ is the dreadful word but one which usefully describes the current business trend to try to embed games into everything we do. Researchers have discovered that people find...
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Green buildings. Who benefits?
Demand and supply of Green Buildings will only increase if all interested parties see the benefits. A useful Venn diagram from the World Building Council illustrates this usefully. For details of ...
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Making the commercial case for Green commercial property
Research suggests the green building benefits can add 7% to rents but the message isn’t getting through to landlords yet. This was identified at the earlier Low Carbon Champions programme and th...
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England cricket star awards carbon certificate
Eight Ash Green Cricket Club (EAGCC) became the WORLD’S FIRST CRICKET CLUB to become ‘carbon neutral’ my measuring, balancing and offsetting its carbon emissions. The two year projec...
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Making your way to Emerald City. The official launch of Low Carbon Champions CIC
08.00 to 09.00, Friday 17 November, Claydon Court. Low Carbon Champions Community Interest Company (CIC) evolved from the earlier programme of the same name and aims to support and build the low car...
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Put Your Foot Down! The official launch of Neutral Territory.
08.00 to 09.00, Friday 17 October, Claydon Court. Commercial property has a major role to play in making Suffolk the ‘Greenest County’. New buildings are designed to high environmental s...
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Solar film – Does it work?
We’re exploring installing solar film to reduce solar gain in some large windows in the Claydon Court courtyard. We’re doing the sums but does anyone have any practical experience of whether this ...
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Entering the Bear Pit! Federation of Small Business make their thoughts known …
Engaging with the small business community is one of the crosses universities have to bear these days and so it was probably with a sense of trepidation that Matthew Taylor from UEA’s Adapt entered ...
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EAGCC becomes world’s first carbon neutral cricket club
Last year Eight Ash Green Cricket Club signed up to Low Carbon Champions programme that helped them measure, reduce and offset their carbon emissions. A small team led by Luke Keeble pushed...
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Solar not for you?
Solar may be getting cheaper, but it isn’t for everyone. Green roofs are another interesting environmental solution to wasted roof space. These roofs nurture the growth of endemic mosses and gr...
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SABRE rattling
About fifty people enjoyed FEB at the gorgeous fabulous Seckford Hall yesterday as part of the SABRE close-out event. You can read the conclusions yourself (SABRE Evaluation Report) and it’s i...
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Positive Deviance?
Why is it that a few organisations not only commit to reducing carbon emissions but actually go ahead and make it happen, whilst the vast majority do neither? Positive Deviance (PD) might provide answ...
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Learning Suite open for business
We’re delighted to welcome Green Shoots Learning to Claydon Court. Owner Lorna Rose is as keen as we are to showcase what sustainable business means and will be hosting Low Carbon events in the...
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You don’t have to be Green to work here …
… well actually you do. Tough new requirements came into force at Claydon Court and all future Neutral Territory properties today requiring ALL tenants to adhere to their simple Measure – ...
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Low-di-Low! GREENCOATS coming to boost the NT team this summer.
Neutral Territory has recruited three new Greencoats (aka interns) to support its carbon neutral property ambitions and help deliver the new Low Carbon Champion CIC project. Green...
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‘First Certified Low Carbon Workspace’? Oh no it isn’t!
Amused to see a property by the mighty Carbon Trust dubbed as the ‘first certified ‘Low Carbon Workplace’ building. Neutral Territory at Claydon Court has been bridging the landlord-tenant...
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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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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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