Rural Community Carbon Network

Or are you thinking about starting one?

There are many groups and villages out there doing great stuff to collectively reduce emissions but at present these groups cannot network effectively with one another.  We can support communities to do this and can provide free training, web space and the support service ‘Experts Online‘ to those that want to be at the heart of collective community action.

If you are thinking about starting a project, you will be well aware of how important the right support is and how valuable it is to be in contact with other villages that are doing the similar things.

If this is the case, please comment on this post or call me (Sam) on 0845 1300 411.

Our work mapping community projects in Britain and Ireland continues and can be accessed here. use the controls in the top left to zoom in and out. Click and hold to move the map around. Click on a pin to see the details of the project. To see the map full screen click here. If your project is not yet featured please leave a comment and we will add you.

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COSTA DEL MARCHES, The Rural Media Company’s new cinema short is a partnership project with the Marches Energy Agency (a supporter of the RCCN), who
provided the expert knowledge.

The 5-minute film is a comedy, set on a Herefordshire farm, where Bob, an ambitious farmer plans to diversify and profit from climate change by turning his land into a seaside resort. By increasing his carbon footprint in ludicrous ways, he draws the audience’s attention to their everyday actions and behaviour around energy use, and the consequences are funny and memorable.

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I wanted to post this toolkit on the RCCN blog, which developed by Ashton Hayes Parish Council, is designed to help like-minded communities adopt and implement a going-carbon neutral policy.

One aspect of the RCCN will be to develop a variety of appropriate and dynamic toolkits to help groups develop their ideas and progress their project. This toolkit is designed to support other communities in preparing for their own carbon neutral projects.

Click on ‘Continue reading…’ below to download the toolkit.

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