This is the video I showed at yesterday’s drop-in session and will be showing again on August 8th. It’s about a community energy project in Scotland which takes income generated from renewable energy production and pumps it into community activities, home energy conservation and other village projects. Click here to view. At the workshop yesterday…
Month: July 2012
Energy Day at CAT: August 8th
Join me for a Home Energy Handbook ‘drop-in session’ and enjoy a whole day of energy related activities at CAT. Time to be confirmed. CAT’s new book The Home Energy Handbook has been described as a ‘manifesto’ for community energy projects but it is also a brilliant practical guide for anyone wanting to save and…
Sign the petition to free climate change activist arrested without charge in the Maldives
FREE SHAUNA AMINATH At approximately 6:15pm local time, Shauna Aminath, Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) Youth Wing President, and Policy Secretary, was arrested in Male and is currently being held in police custody in the Dhoonidhoo detention island. At this time the charges against her are unknown, the government has not yet allowed a lawyer to…
Home Energy Handbook ‘drop-in’ sessions at CAT, 17th July 2012
Join us for one of three Home Energy Handbook ‘drop-in’ sessions 17th July 2012 (4-5pm, 5-6pm and 6-7pm). Garden Room, the WISE building, Centre for Alternative Technology. Each session is the same, lasts approximately an hour, and includes a brief talk, Q and A and some ‘browse and chat’ time. Refreshments provided. CAT’s new book…
Great review for The Home Energy Handbook
The Home Energy Handbook has just received a great review from Simon Brammer at Ashden. “Personally speaking, I took the book to bed with me and was so engrossed in it I didn’t put it down until 2.30am!” “One of the things I like about the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)’s recently published Home Energy…
Home Energy Handbook interview with Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement
Rob Hopkins interviewed me last week via Skype about The Home Energy Handbook. Have a listen to our chat here. Also check out this free download from Blue and Green Tomorrow, which features an extract of The Home Energy Handbook and many interesting articles about renewable energy from a variety of writers.