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We have had some funding to begin the online support aspects of the network
Take a look at how we are connecting communities at communitycarbon.net!
This is a diary of our journey towards the creation of the Rural Community Carbon Network (RCCN). The journey started in the summer of 2006.
By the autumn of 2006 ruralnet|uk had teamed up with the
Carnegie Rural Community Development Programme to raise awareness,
promote and support collective approaches to reducing energy use and increasing energy
production from renewable sources, or in shorthand, reducing the carbon
footprint of communities.
We have invested in the design of a national
programme to
support communities who are working collectively to reduce their carbon
footprint. The RCCN will promote knowledge transfer and put people at
the leading edge in touch with those who wish to follow them.
The RCCN has started mapping
what is already going on and at the same time we are actively seeking
to raise funding to launch the RCCN in October 2007 at the ruralnet|2007 conference. Immediately after the launch we plan to be in a position to provide an Experts Online Service
to rural communities. We will be able to match mentors with communities
who need help. Where required, we will pay the mentors and we will draw
them from the network itself. In summary, we will link people up with
others who can help them. We will build a network and thereby
complement all of the excellent information resources and tools already
available.
RCCN is a ruralnet|uk initiative.
ruralnet|uk is a registered charity (Charity number 1089238)
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