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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Green Finance Conference: Accessing Green Funding for SMEs
This was one of those events which looked good on paper but didn’t quite deliver. ‘Speed presenting’ (ten minute slots each) meant a lot of ground was covered but you suspect left the audien...
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Vacant space criteria toughened
Although the economy generally and property sector specifically remains weak, Neutral Territory took the unusual step of tightening entry requirements for tenants. The move was prompted by the wrong t...
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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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Sustainable business a top priority
A recent report from Lloyd Bank suggests that one in four British small businesses say sustainability is a top priority for 2014. Good to know that Neutral Territory stakeholders are on message a...
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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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Facing Facebook
Facebook is not used much for contacting business and getting them involved, so isn’t ideal for us, however, let’s not knock it ‘till we’ve tried it! Updating a Facebook status is s...
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Sparking a response
In returning the results of the audits back to the companies I waited with apprehension for some response to their carbon audit however no one questioned the results at all to my surprise. World...
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Does green mean poor?
An article about Newham having the lowest carbon footprint of any borough in the country revealed that the national average is 12.5 tonnes per person per annum. The good news is that Newham is 18 per...
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Getting LinkedIn
I am new to LinkedIn, so this is as much an experiment for me as it is for the LCD project! We have formed a LinkedIn group for those involved in the project to join, to further discuss matters. Howev...
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First tweets, now hoots too!
We are now using a piece of online software called ‘Hootsuite’ which allows us to manage all our social media in one place. The site has tabs with all our different social media profiles (Twitter,...
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What’s offputting about offsetting?
Talk to environmental professionals about offsetting and they usually reach for a metaphorical crucifix (or equivalent in other faiths). Of course it would be nice to take action to reduce emissions...
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Tweet tweet
Twitter seems to be the social media platform of choice for businesses who want to update people on what’s happening and get their voices heard, so this seemed perfect for our Low Carbon Deviants pr...
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Carbon log jam
The suspicion that the Suffolk Carbon Charter might prove a proverbial sledgehammer to crack SME nuts is perhaps most justified in its progress reporting device – the Carbon Log (very small...
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Why don’t companies use interns?
One of the things that always surprise me is why companies don’t make better use of bright young people. An especially useful vehicle for this is summer internships where you can pick up undergrad...
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Funding induced short termism
You don’t need to be Nigel Farage to question the European funding frameworks which underpin the delivery of schemes such as Low Carbon Champions. Cumbersome, complex and costly (anecdotal evidenc...
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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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LCD project update
The new Low Carbon Deviance site is based loosely on the Low Carbon Champion programme (LCC) run between 2010-2013 by Suffolk County Council. However due to cost of delivery it isn’t a sustainab...
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