Community is in everything we do and the links and friendship that we have, are built through communities that we belong to be it our family, school or work place are generally stronger and deeper due...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
Low Carbon Deviants (LCD) finally kicks off with the arrival of Claire Davies, our intern from the University or East Anglia (UEA). Internships often get mixed press and are reasonably uncommon am...Read More
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 ...Read More
The Calydon Court website is getting towards functioning and had a play with it buddy press will provide a great open medium for everyone involved and interested in LCD to be able to communicate and ...Read More
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 ...Read More
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 ...Read More
Went over the aims and functions of Neutral Territory and LCD. Really looking forward to getting started and seeing how the action research will unfold. There is so much to learn from this project rol...Read More
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 ...Read More
Part of the mission of Neutral Territory is to give bright young people the opportunity to work. Internships is one way of doing this so we’ve been in touch with University of East Anglia (UEA) to...Read More
Although being involved in the Suffolk Low Carbon Champion project as both sponsor and reviewer the ancestry of the programme I never quite sussed out the champion vs. charter issue. Whilst indivi...Read More
One of the problems with sustainable carbon reduction is the staccato way in which the grants necessary for pump-priming green investments start, run, then stop. A useful web site which tracks what’...Read More
Positive Deviance (PD) is an interesting technique which assumes the answer to many problems already lies within the community. Instead of cumbersome, costly top-down methods where consult...Read More
The formal Low Carbon Champions (LCC) evaluation report was produced by Ruth Melville at Essex University and rightly highlighted all the good things that this innovative and very comprehensive progra...Read More
Our first carbon balancing action took place recently with the help of Green Light Trust. This was the end result of the Low Carbon Champions programme supported by Suffolk County Council. Crucially, ...Read More
