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Feeling climate change

Submitted by Steven on Wed, 2012-04-25 22:46

I took a bit of time yesterday to visit the Cape Farewell u.n.f.o.l.d exhibition at the Liverpool John Moores University Art and Design Academy. The visit had been inspired by my encounters with Nick Drake’s poetry.

St John's Sunshine share offer launch

Submitted by Fiona on Mon, 2012-04-02 14:28

Despite the earlier woeful tale, 6 months of hard work culminated in the launch of the SJS community share offer at the bustling St John’s Centre in Old Trafford on the 1st April (no fooling about here).

The first set of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels are already up and now we’re raising the cash to pay for them, and get on with our other grant plans!

Invest in sunshine

Blue Economy and inspiring action

Submitted by Steven on Thu, 2012-03-22 18:09

I had the pleasure yesterday of attending a talk by Gunter Pauli on the Blue Economy (organised by MERCi).

Oldham Co-operative Energy Event, 29 March

Submitted by Fiona on Thu, 2012-03-22 13:01

St John's Sunshine (urban solar for communities), Saddleworth Hydro and Carbon Co-op (low carbon measures for streets and neighbourhoods) will be all the talk at an EVENT (click to see the flyer) in Oldham next week. 

Energy is more than technology

Submitted by Steven on Thu, 2012-03-08 13:10

“Yes but this technology can generate XMWh at £Y/MWh...”

“But this technology only emits Ztonnes of Carbon/MWh...”

Much of our discussions about energy seem to take this narrow techno-economic form. Yes, we need to think about how we generate all the megawatts we need but we also need to broaden our scope and think about how energy is embedded in our society and the implications different technologies have for how we live our lives.

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