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Help to Keep Warm in Nottinghamshire this Winter
Wed, 13 February 2013
Approximately 400 vulnerable people die in Nottinghamshire a year due to winter weather and its impact on their health. Many of these deaths could be avoided by people being more aware of the dangers and taking simple steps to keep warm. Nottinghamshire County Council has launched a campaign to help people ‘Keep Warm this Winter’.
People with disabilities and long-term health conditions, older people and those on a low income in particular may benefit from some of the information and schemes available. Explore the links below to see what help you might be able to get.
Ruth Mayne of Low West Carbon Oxford to Speak at Derbyshire Conference
Mon, 28 January 2013We are very pleased and excited to announce that the Co-Founder and Chair of an award-winning community-led initiative and the author of the 2020 Energy Strategy for Nottingham City are to deliver keynote speeches at the Derbyshire Community Climate Action Conference on 9th March.
Book a free place on the conference by contacting Nick Pigula: 01629 538304 / nicholas.pigula@derbyshire.gov.uk
Ruth Mayne helped found Low Carbon West Oxford (LCWO) in 2007 after flooding in the area led residents to become concerned about climate change. The group runs projects covering energy, transport, food, waste reduction and wildlife. In 2010 LCWO was a runner up in The Big Green Challenge and a winner in the Low Carbon Communities Challenge. In total they won £903,000 and much of this was spend on renewable and clean energy projects. LCWO's sister organisation West Oxford Community Renewables invests money in community renewable energy projects.
Ruth is currently working on a research project called EVALOC (Evaluating Low Carbon Communities). The project seeks to assess, explain and communicate the changes in energy use due to community activities within six selected case study projects under the Department of Energy and Climate Change's (DECC) Low Carbon Communities Challenge (LCCC) initiative, a government-supported initiative to transform the way communities use and produce energy, and build new ways of supporting more sustainable living.
Jerome Baddley is a senior manager at The Nottingham Energy Partnership (NEP), leading NEP’s sustainability services team.In 2007 Jerome calculated the sustainable energy potential for Nottingham and in 2009 was commissioned to write the now adopted 2020 Energy Strategy for the City. Jerome also constructed a detailed model for the tracking of the city strategy delivery and wrote Nottingham’s Sustainable Energy Action Plan for the EU Covenant of Mayors.
In 2010 Jerome wrote the Regional Carbon Management Plan for the NHS in the East Midlands. Over the last three years he has managed programmes to support dozens of NHS organisation across the UK to measure, reduce and report their carbon emissions and natural resource use, through low carbon procurement, energy use and waste reduction.
Over five years Jerome’s team has footprinted over 4.2million tonnes of CO2e and directly saved 4,318 tonnes of emission and around £2.5m per annum in large organisations. Over the last three years, Jerome and his team have supported the City and County Primary Care Trusts to cut their carbon emissions by 25% each,saving hundreds of thousands of pounds on their energy bills.
The conference will also include workshops from a range of local community groups about their inspiring work and organisations that can support community action on climate change. The topics of these workshops will be announced in the coming weeks.
All local climate-change focused groups are invited to have a stand at the conference’s ‘marketplace’ to showcase their work.
Anyone living in Derbyshire who is, or would like to, take action on climate change can book a free place on the conference by contacting Nick Pigula: 01629 538304 / nicholas.pigula@derbyshire.gov.uk
The conference takes place at the Derbyshire Eco Centre, nr Middleton-by-Wirksworth on 9th March 2013.
Bookings Open: Derbyshire Community Climate Action Conference
Fri, 18 January 2013Bookings are now being taken for what promises to be one of the most exciting local events of the year: a one-day conference for people living in Derbyshire who are taking action at community-level to tackle climate change.
Derbyshire Community Climate Action Network Conference, which is being run 
by Derbyshire County Council, takes place at the Derbyshire Eco Centre (Middleton-by-Wirksworth) on Saturday 9th March.
by Derbyshire County Council, takes place at the Derbyshire Eco Centre (Middleton-by-Wirksworth) on Saturday 9th March. The day will include:
- National keynote speakers
- Inspirational workshops from local community groups about their projects
- The chance to meet lots of other people who are doing similar work
- Workshops by organisations that can help you in the work you are doing
- A 'marketplace' of stalls packed full of useful information
- A purpose-built eco venue with many inspiring features
More information about speakers and workshops will be posted on our website as it is available: www.everybodys-talking.org.
To book your free place contact Nick Pigula on 01629 538304 or nicholas.pigula@derbyshire.gov.uk with your name, contact details and the name of any climate change-focused community group you belong to (you don't need to belong to one to attend). Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
For more information about similar conferences which took place in 2010, see our community conferences page.
First Ever Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire EcoHomes Open Week
Fri, 18 January 2013
Over the course of nine days, people across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire who have installed eco features in their homes are planning to open their doors to the public to inspire others to improve their own houses. Visit real, inspiring projects which will show you how to:- Make your own home more environmentally friendly
- Save money by making your home more energy efficient
- Do things that can be funded under the government’s new Green Deal and ECO programmes
So far homes in Overseal, Netherfield, Chesterfield, Hockerton, Belper and West Bridgford are involved.
Visit some of the homes
Individual events will be listed in the events section of this website until mid-February when we will be launching a website especially for the event.
Not only will visiting these homes provide you with inspiration, everyone who visits a home will have the chance to enter a prize draw. The prize will be announced in the coming weeks and will help the winner to make their home more environmentally friendly.
Open your own home
We’re sure that there are many more homes in our two counties that have had eco-improvements which could inspire others. If you have a house that you think is suitable let us know. Examples of what you might have done include (but are not limited to):
- Installed renewable technologies
- Installed solid wall insulation We’re keen to include homes which have measures which householders will be able to use ECO and Green Deal funding for.
- Eco-renovated a whole house or room or built an eco house from scratch.
- Made improvements on a tight budget. We don’t just want expensive high-tech solutions on show.
- Made a rented home more eco friendly.
- Incorporated a lot of waste materials into your improvements that would have otherwise ended up in landfill.
- Produced a lot of your own food in your garden. If you could provide a short tour of how and why you’ve done this, we’d love to include it.
If you like to take part get in touch with Caroline Harmon: caroline.harmon@mea.org.uk.
Job Opportunity with People's Power
Mon, 7 January 2013People's Power are seeking a Project Officer to assist the Project Coordinator and partner organisations in the planning and delivery of a collective energy switching project (group bargaining for household energy) which will be targeted at vulnerable customers. This role will involve office-based work in Cromford, with the possibility of some home-based working, and occasional visits to the project sites in Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire. It would ideally suit someone within commuting distance of Cromford.
More information in the attached document.
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