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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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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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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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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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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We like a good theory. See what you reckon to this one.
We are just looking at Suffolk SMEs for now but hopefully in the future this model of reducing small businesses carbon footprint could be scaled up and functioning all over the UK, the world even! But...
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Private Policy or Public Promise?
What is worth more? Which will actually be achieved within a acceptable time frame? A Private Policy or a Public Promise? After meeting with two very different companies today I have begun to consider...
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Why are they not listening?
All the Champions have been contacted by Ned Harrison and information has been put on Twitter and LinkedIn yet still no one has taken the bait, I think we need a bigger hook. So what will get these wi...
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The mould for a forum to fit
Good forums seem to take a distinctive shape a main page with sections for easy navigation to the topic you are looking for. Examples of section we could use are the steps within the scheme so Audit, ...
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The top 5 things when building an online commuinty
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...
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What’s in a name?
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...
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Are you a Positive Deviant?
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...
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