local energy workshop with co re (ss)
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Local Energy workshop presentation from Future Choices - Live & Local! Skipton, 1 - 2 Oct 2008TRANSCRIPT
‘Local Energy’Welcome
Future Choices – Live & Local!Thursday 2 October 2008
Workshop Agenda• Brief introductions: who, where, why – 5 mins• Background – 2 mins - The Rural Community Carbon Network• Hear from case study examples – 30 mins - Colin Mather from Esk Energy Group - Ross Weddle from CoRE - Adam Kennerley from Lightfoot Enterprises• Networking and Web 2.0: how we can help
communities & projects share best practise – 15 mins• Questions – 8 mins
Background• The RCCN and Research• Funding to support networking - communitycarbon.net• Work with zerofootprint – more on both later
Case Study Examples
Ross Weddle
Hydro
Heat exchangers
Solar
Heat and power plants
Wind
Lightfoot Enterprises
Adam Kennerley
www.h-e-s.org
Community Action, Networking & Web 2.0
• People
• What does ‘Web 2.0’ mean?
- user generated
- ‘read-write’ web
• How can it help to join people up?
Joins people up:– Share pictures– Share favourite websites– Create & share videos
Benefits:• Access to information – instant, up-to-date and accessible• Community engagement – ‘personal’, trust and collectivism• Communication – empowering tool, ‘space’ online
Community WebsiteRSS feeds
Effectively CampaignRSS
Personal Blog
RSS feed
Event Green navigation bar
communitycarbon.netTop level aggregation – lots of RSS feeds
The ‘community’ of websites – with feeds pulling in updates from each one
So, how is this a network?
Network
• People are doing their own thing in lots of places; both online and offline.
• We want to support this activity and facilitate knowledge transfer for groups – eg. communitycarbon.net
• Also through community websites – ruralnet|online
How can we help?
Our offer:
- free web space
- Experts Online
- Access to support training courses
- Zerofootprint ‘widget’
• In development
• Uses ‘widgets’
• ‘zerofootprint’ is the ‘wholesaler’ and community websites the ‘retailers’ of the service.
Thank You
Questions
Samantha Adams, ruralnet|uk
0845 1300 411• www.communitycarbon.net• www.ruralnetuk.org• Esk Energy - www.eskvalleyenergy.org• CoRE - www.core.coop/site/• Lightfoot Enterprises -www.light-foot.org• Zerofootprint -
http://www.zerofootprint.net/about
Local Energy at Future Choices – Live & Local!
2 October 2008