Brixton Energy Solar 2 up and running!
Brixton Energy have now completed fundraising for their second project, Brixton Solar Energy 2 in Styles Gardens on the Loughborough Estate. The solar panels have been installed and the project is now generating electricity. Brixton Energy raised funding through a community share offer, with an expected average annual return on investment of 3% and up [...]
Making solar panels from recycled and scrap materials
Being connected to the grid, we take electricity for granted. Most of us consume electricity without considering where it came from, how it was produced or the true cost of producing energy. We therefore consume way more than is necessary. By taking control of our own energy production, we can learn how to use energy [...]
Film Screening THE CRISIS OF CIVILIZATION
We would like to invite you to the opening of a series of film screenings at the Transition Centre, Thursday 15 December 7pm for 7.30pm screening time. The first film sets the focus of our agenda for the years to come: The documentary THE CRISIS OF CIVILIZATION explores how contributing factors of Earth in crisis [...]
Brixton Energy has a roof!
Brixton Energy has identified roofs for its community-owned solar power plant. Brixton Energy is inviting local people to pledge to invest. Power should be online by the end of March!
Urban Permaculture Design Certification Course
ATTENTION: 10 day course: Reduce to £350 if paid before 11th March. Concerned about climate change, peak oil and our children’s future? Want to go green? Interested in creating Sustainable Local Communities? Thinking about making significant changes in your life? Fed up with the problems and want to start looking for solutions? Then this full [...]
Carbon Calculators
UK citizen’s emit about 13 tonnes of CO2 each per year including ‘consumption’. Direct emissions (ie those you are directly responsible for by travelling or using energy in your home) are about 5.6tonnes of CO2 each. About 2.4tonnes is attributable to ‘government’ or ‘shared services’. The sustainable level (ie what the world can absorb for [...]
Energy Group Contacts
Name Email Adam Herriott adamherriott@yahoo.com Olivia Errey olivia.errey@gmail.com Rob Lewis rob@cen.org.uk John Sleeman jjsleeman@aol.com Keir Sweeney noizes@hotmail.co.uk Will Anderson will.anderson@treehouseclapham.org.uk
Energy Group Page
Energy Group Contacts feel free to add your name if you want to get involved, or make any corrections or additions to existing contacts Minutes of meeting 04-12-07 Minutes of meeting 15-01-08 Minutes of meeting 19-02-08 CAfE conference – places going fast Don’t forget the CAfE conference is just one month away, on 11th November [...]
Low Carbon Initiatives
Low Carbon Initiatives Reducing our carbon emissions to achieve a stabilisation level of atmospheric CO2 equivalent of 350 parts per million in order to have a fair chance of avoiding runaway climate change is the great imperative of our time. This, with Peak Oil, is one of the foundations of the Transition movement’s task of [...]
Agenda for next meeting
[Note: This content has been moved from our old website. The author displayed is the person moving it, not the original author. Click here for details.] I know Adam said he would be responsible for the next meeting’s agenda but I thought it might be better if everyone was involved. So what I propose is [...]
