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.
Sam travelled to a sunny Bristol and met with Alice-Marie Archer from The Converging World to discuss the RCCN and mapping of community energy projects. The Converging World is a UK based registered charity. Their work
addresses the issues of climate change and sustainable development
globally. They generate clean energy in developing countries and enable carbon
reduction in the UK. All their income supports the communities where their
energy projects are based as well as programmes in the UK that help
people and organisations reduce their carbon footprint. Converging World call their approach ‘beyond carbon neutral’.
The Converging World are currently looking to 'map' where groups exist within the Bristol area - with the possible extension to the UK as a whole. We have already undertaken some considerable mapping work as part of the ongoing action research we are doing for the RCCN; so we met to discuss collaboration and to avoid duplication.
The Converging World support - an email kindly sent by Alice-Marie;
We are really pleased to announce that UKVillages are supporting the RCCN - and will be helping us to collect data on the existing community energy projects as part of the mapping exercise.
Launched in April 2000, http://www.UKVillages.co.uk is now widely recognised as the national and local community website for the UK, providing a fully interactive home page and tailored portal for over 31,500 villages, towns, cities and suburbs in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
We have started mapping the Community Carbon Projects across the UK and Ireland. The map can be viewed here (note that the map has more than one page). This is an on-going activity so please revisit the link from time to time.
** ADD YOUR PROJECT ** If you'd like your project included please click the comment link below and leave as much information as possible (including a postcode) and we will add it to the map.
Broadly speaking the pins are coloured as follows:
We have tried to keep to only those which work with the Voluntary Sector (inc charities, non-for-profits or community projects, community school projects).
Main clusters so far are:
At the same time a lot of feasibility studies are being carried out with a view to implementing them in the near future.
Notice Findhorn Community in Scotland is at the cutting edge with carbon neutral living, renewables and eco-villages, and came to ruralnet|uk's first conference in 2001 when maybe quite a few delegates thought they were a bit 'on the edge' at the time!
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