Complimentary Tickets to Eco Technology Show, Amex Stadium Brighton, 15^th & 16^th June 2012  

The Eco Technology Show is a national showcase of the latest technologies which perform a crucial role in protecting the environment and making our daily business and home lives more efficient.

Technology integrates into every facet of modern life from buildings to energy to home to transport and to lifestyle. Utilising eco technology has the additional benefits of minimising waste, saving energy, reducing environmental impact and not to mention saving you money.

The Eco Technology Show is designed to create a space where you can be inspired by new ideas and technologies, expand your knowledge, connect with industry experts, learn new practical skills and innovate!

Over 100 exhibitors, will form the shows different zones, which include: Eco Build, Design, Business, Energy, Transport, Home, and Lifestyle. Highlighting ways in which businesses, public sector and the general public can achieve a more efficient and sustainable way forward.

At the Eco Technology Show you can:

• Source products and information from the building, construction, energy, waste management, design & transport industries
• Be inspired by new ideas
• See all the latest eco cars and bikes
• Attend free workshops and talks
• Interactive zones, cafes and bars
• Connect with the experts
• Try out new gadgets
• Experience new technologies
• Have a go on the test track ebikes and ETrikes
• Shop in our food showcase
• Plus lots more

To register for your FREE ticket simply go to the Eco Technology Show website www.ecotechnologyshow.co.uk register and enter this promotional code: TT168

One Way Theatre use 4x 135 Watt solar panels, installed on the roof of the van by Firefly CIC. The panels are connected to 6 deep-cycle rechargeable batteries, which gives us enough juice to screen films for up to 4 hours! Outdoor Cinema 100% powered by solar! onewaytheatre.com.

Brighton and Hove 10:10 look forward to working with One Way Theatre throughout the summer to promote loads of solar powered screenings. We’ll let you know when, where and what through our newsletter and on this site. Sign up to 10:10 on the right to say you’ll have a go at cutting your carbon emissions 10% at a time and stay up to date with all the local and international 10:10 news.

Big thanks to Brighton based Cosmo Shreldrake for the soundtrack - soundcloud.com/cosmo-sheldrake

Sunday 22 April, 7.45-10pm

For the grand finale of the Brighton Bikefest, One Way Theatre present their first Brighton feature: Being Elmo: a puppeteer’s journey…before officially launching in cinemas across the UK! Also a short screening of the Bike Train launch in 2010.

‘Being Elmo’ won the Sundance Jury Prize and made it to #1 Documentary on iTunes!

The film will be  projected onto a new super-size big screen to celebrate what critics have been calling “The feel-good film of the year”.

With an evening packed full of costumes, puppet making, face-painting, and with infamous with delicious chai and cakes from the Jolly Green Cafe, this is a night definitely not to be missed!!!

Suggested donation of £3. Proceeds to support the screening and also to support BikeTrain

This event is supported by Dogwoof and Brighton and Bike Train.

More info and preview at:  http://onewaytheatre.com/2012/04/10/april-22nd-the-level-brighton-being-elmo-a-puppeteers-journey/

Other Brighton Bike Fest

Events this weekend
Sat 21st April

• DIY walk-in bicycle workshop11am-5pm @ Cranks, 22 Chapel Street, BN2 1RQ www.cranks.org.uk
• Bike Train to Btn v Birmingham football match 1pm (1.30pm dep.) Meet @ the Level. http://www.biketrain.org  See details below.
• Bike Dr - for a quick fix!1-4pm @ the Level.
• Bike jousting & Awkward Races / Beautify your Bike 2pm @ the Level.
• Cycling Treasure Hunt.12 to 2pm. Start at the Level.
• Hi-vis & recycled bike parts sewing workshop3-5pm @ Cowley Club.
• FLASH MOB 6pm location TBC
• Live bands!8pm till late @ Cowley Club 12 London Road, BN1 4JA /www.cowleyclub.org.uk

Sun 22nd April

• Bike polo taster session- not for the faint-hearted / Bike Dr - for a quick fix!12-2pm @ Preston Park.
• Sunday Lunch 2pm @ Cowley Club. followed by Tea, Cake & Quiz (4-6pm)
• Bike Jousting & Awkward Races 6pm @ the Level.
• Solar-powered cinema by One Way Theatre 7.30pm @ the Level. (bring blankets to sit on!)

Press Release 01-03-12

Brighton & Hove 10:10, Brighton Energy Co-operative, the Low Carbon Trust and Brighton Peace and Environment Centre, working with community partners, have successfully completed their Government-funded energy saving projects.

Last December, the four community groups bid for a total of £242,188 from the Government’s Local Energy Assessment Fund (LEAF). All four bids were successful and the organisations have spent the past two months delivering their projects.

Between them the groups have:

• Carried out 175 energy home energy surveys, 150 of which were completed by the Green Building Partnership
• Carried out energy surveys on Hollingdean and Hanover community centres (with energy efficiency measures to be installed in April)
• Worked with Hanover Action for Sustainable Living, Hanover 10:10 and the Hollingdean Development Trust to hand out more than 200 energy saving packs containing simple to install energy efficiency measures such as energy meters and draught-proofing kits
• Created a home energy self-assessment survey for use by anyone in the city
• Published guidance on how to cut bills and make your home more energy efficient, where to go to find grants to do so and advice for tenants and landlords
• Relaunched the Green Pages — a directory, listing green products and services in the city
• Raised awareness of how to stop wasting energy in the home and cut energy bills
• Written retrofit planning guidance, which will help homeowners assess what energy efficiency technologies work for them and what planning permission they may require
• Written a Planning Advice Note (PAN) on external wall insulation for use by planners, developers, architects and facility managers.
• Created a computerised graphic of a typical Hanover street clad in external wall insulation
• Researched the viability of a buyer’s club, which would allow residents to bulk purchase energy efficiency measures and thus qualify for a discount

The work was praised by leader of the council, Bill Randall, who said: “It’s been fantastic example of positive, collaborative working with the central aim of improving the homes of Brighton and Hove residents, and raising awareness throughout the city. This is so helpful in supporting people who want to stop wasting energy and money. The fact that the community groups won four separate awards of LEAF funding demonstrates the credibility of the groups and the city in general.”

Tom Chute, project manager of Brighton & Hove 10:10, said: “We set out with an ambitious LEAF project and are delighted that we have achieved our aims, and helped Brighton and Hove residents make their homes warmer to live in and cut their energy bills. We are now looking for new funds to continue this valuable work.”

Myrtle Cooper, project coordinator at BPEC, said: “The project has built on BPEC’s 30 years of work in behaviour change and information sharing for Brighton & Hove residents. It’s been a fantastic opportunity to push forward energy efficiency by supporting tenants and homeowners to cut their energy bills, and to enable us to promote green and ethical business in the city through our Green Pages directory.”

Mischa Hewitt, project manager at Low Carbon Trust, said: “The project has enabled us to survey a number of older houses in the city, with the view of how to bring nineteenth century housing fit for purpose in the 21st century. The housing in Brighton and Hove is some of the oldest, coldest stock we have in the country, and the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation maybe a great opportunity to make it better.”

Will Cottrell, director of BEC, said: “The alliances and collaborative working that have been formed through having to deliver energy efficiency solutions in a very short timescale have shown the great willing and capability in Brighton and Hove. We look forward to achieving further stretching targets with the next set of low carbon projects.”

The groups will now be seeking further funds to continue their work.

Notes to editors

1)     The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s £10 million Local Energy Assessment Fund, managed by a number of community networks and administered by the Energy Saving Trust, was set up to help community groups understand their energy issues locally and prepare them for the Green Deal, revolving funds and for renewable energy financial incentives. www.decc.gov.uk

2)     Organisations involved:

Brighton Energy Co-operative

Brighton Energy Co-operative is a community organisation that helps people invest in local green energy schemes. www.brightonenergy.org.uk

The Green Building Partnership

The Green Building Partnership is a co-operative of eco refurbishment specialists based in Brighton & Hove. www.greenbuildingpartnership.co.uk/

Brighton & Hove 10:10 CIC

Brighton & Hove 10:10 is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes low carbon living by working with communities, ngos, businesses, and individuals to deliver projects that achieve measurable carbon reductions. www.brightonandhove1010.org

Low Carbon Trust

Low Carbon Trust is a not-for-profit organisation that was formed in 2001 to set up, manage and promote environmental projects.

www.lowcarbon.co.uk

Brighton Peace and Environment Centre

Brighton Peace and Environment Centre works with schools, community groups and individuals around issues of social justice, identity and diversity, peace and conflict, environmental sustainability and interdependence. www.bpec.org

There is quite a bit going on in Brighton & Hove for Earth Hour in the council and elsewhere, so if you are doing something make sure you officially sign up on the WWF website. The council’s switch off is listed.

Here’s the link – http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/#50.97356200609211,-0.050811767578125,9,0,1,0,0,0 Click ‘get involved’.

An innovative project has been completed in Brighton and Hove, which shows residents what their street would look like if all the homes along it had insulation fitted to the outside of the buildings.

Brighton-based environmental consultancy Phlorum, together with architects BBM Sustainable Design from Lewes, were commissioned by Brighton & Hove 10:10 and Hanover Action for Sustainable Living (HASL) to carry out a feasibility study to see how a typical Brighton and Hove street in the Hanover area would look if the buildings were clad in insulation and new render.

BBM has produced a detailed image showing what the street would look like with and without the insulation in place. As part of the project, BBM Sustainable Design is designing external insulation that will include appropriate design details around areas such as windows, doors and eaves.

Although external insulation is the most effective method of improving the energy efficiency of homes and therefore cutting residents’ energy bills, there is often concern from planners and householders about the visual impact on the street.

The Hanover neighbourhood is characterised by dense Victorian housing with typically small houses in long terraces. This type of housing is found all over the UK and Phlorum intends to use the final report to stimulate national discussion on external insulation, inform planning policy and help develop whole-street home energy efficiency improvement programmes.

The initiative is part of Brighton & Hove 10:10’s project funded by the Local Energy Assessment Fund, which has helped residents in Hanover and Hollingdean cut energy bills and improve their homes.

Duncan Baker-Brown from BBM Sustainable Design said:

“This is a very exciting project. The only way we can meet Government targets of an 80% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 is by changing our current housing stock from ‘gas guzzlers’ to ‘lean machines’. So we have to consider how to do this on a huge scale; one street at a time is e very good start.”

Jackie Strube, sustainability consultant at Phlorum, said:

“We hope to demonstrate the energy saving benefits of external insulation and show how it can be added in a sympathetic way that respects the existing building fabric and features.”

Paul Norman from HASL said:

“We are delighted that Phlorum will be working within our community and that it could lead to national action and discussion. We are looking forward to seeing how one of our streets “wrapped up” will look.”

For more information contact:

Jackie Strube, Phlorum — 07525 780683

Duncan Baker-Brown, BBM Sustainable Design  — 01273 480533

Flemmich Webb, Brighton & Hove 10:10 — 07843 050308

Press Release 13-03-2012

Hollingdean and Hanover residents were given home energy saving kits and taught how to fit them at two workshops, one at the Hanover and Hollingdean community centres, last Saturday (10 March).

Check out all the photos from the day here.

On arrival, people received free home energy saving packs (worth more than £100) that included energy meters to measure electricity use, radiator boosters and reflectors, and letterbox, door and window draught-proofing kits. Although relatively cheap, the draft proofing measures alone could save around £55 per year on bills. If every household in the UK installed these simple measures we’d collectively save £190 million or enough energy to heat 400,000 homes (source: the Energy Saving Trust). The packs could save the homes £255 to £530 on bills (source: manufacturers websites).

Householders watched builders from The Green Building Partnership fit the energy saving measures to doors, windows and radiators, had a go at fitting them themselves and asked the experts further questions on how to do it.
The energy saving events were funded by the Government’s Local Energy Assessment Fund (LEAF) — a grant that Brighton and Hove 10:10, working with Hanover Action for Sustainable Living (HASL) and Hollingdean Development Trust successfully bid for in January.

Tom Chute, Brighton & Hove’s project manager said: “We are really pleased we could give out these home energy-saving kits and show people how to fit them. The day was a great success, so we will now be looking for funds to deliver further energy saving benefits to other areas of Brighton and Hove.”

Paul Norman from HASL said: “What a fun-packed day. Not only have people been given the means to install simple energy efficiency measures in their own homes, we know what we can do to improve the Hanover Community Centre, too. Everyone’s a winner!”

Elizabeth Lee from the Hollingdean Community Centre said: “There is a real interest among the community of how they can make their houses warmer and cut energy bills, but often people don’t know how to go about it. Now they can go home and start improving their homes right away.”

Contact

Flemmich Webb, Brighton & Hove 10:10, 07843 050308, webbfreelance@mac.com

Notes to editors:

1) The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s £10 million Local Energy Assessment Fund, managed by a number of community networks and administered by the Energy Saving Trust, was set up to help community groups understand their energy issues locally and prepare them for the Green Deal, revolving funds and for renewable energy financial incentives. www.decc.gov.uk

2) Each energy saving pack contains:
1x EnviR energy monitor
1 x Letterbox Ecoflap (white)
1 x Radiator Booster (mark 3)
1 x Radiator Reflector Sheets (6 radiator pack)
1 x Window Insulating Film kit
1 x Door draught excluder (slides under door)
1 x draught excluder 5m roll for windows and doors (p profile, white)

Update:

Apologies for those trying to register previously. The form is now fixed, so please confirm below.

There’s been an amazing response to the free energy surveys on offer to Hanover,Elm Grove,  Hollingdean and Fiveways residents (if you’re quick there are still some available in the Hollingdean & Fiveways area here). Now we’re giving away thousands of pounds worth of energy saving equipment and advice at two free events. Come along to learn about saving energy in your home and collect a free energy saving pack. Included in these brilliant packs are energy monitors, radiator boosters, secondary glazing and loads more simple measures to cut energy bills. We’ll also be fitting measures in the community centres to improve the building for all its users and give everyone attending hands-on guidance.

• Free energy saving pack worth £100+
• DIY workshops and advice from experts
• Help reduce the energy use of either the Hanover Centre or Hollingdean Community Centre
• Food and drinks on us

We’ll hear from energy saving experts who’ll guide us through the free pack’s contents; from secondary glazing to using the top-spec energy monitor. You’ll be able to try out the gear on the community centre building, so you’ll be confident going home and fitting the measures on your own house. If you know someone that may not be able to register online or come to one of the events, but would benefit from some energy saving equipment, check the box in the form below and we’ll do our best to get one to them.

What’s in the packs?

We’ve sourced over £100 worth of kit that will help you reduce energy use. Here’s a list of pack contents:

• 1 x EnviR energy monitor - this is top of the range, third generation, whole house meter, and includes a usb data cable and software so that user can download readings to their PC and create charts etc
• 1 x Letterbox Ecoflap (white)
• 1 x Radiator Booster (mark 3)
• 1 x Radiator Reflector Sheets (6 radiator pack)
• 1 x Window Insulating Film kit
• 1 x Door draught excluder (slides under door)
• 1 x draught excluder 5m roll for windows and doors (p profile, white)

Planning on Coming? Reserve Your Pack and Confirm Attendance Below

Press Release 16-02-12

Brighton & Hove homeowners can now take the first steps to reducing their energy bills, after four local organisations won Government funding to carry out nearly 200 free home energy efficiency assessments in the city.

Brighton & Hove 1010, Brighton Energy Co-operative, the Low Carbon Trust and Brighton Peace and Environment Centre, working with community partners, successfully bid for a total of £242,188 from the Government’s Local Energy Assessment Fund (LEAF).

The grant will be used to carry out free, energy efficiency surveys in 175 homes in Hanover, Hollingdean and Portslade, and in community centres across the city.

Homeowners will then receive a report advising them on which energy efficiency measures would be suitable for their homes, such as insulation, new boilers and heating controls, how much they will cost to install and by how much they could reduce energy bills.

The Green Building Partnership, a newly formed cooperative of local contractors and suppliers that specialises in eco refurbishments, will deliver the reports and surveys.

Up to 400 homeowners will also receive free energy efficiency packs that will include energy meters, draft-proofing and radiator boosters to help them get started on making their home warmer and more comfortable to live in.

Funds will also be used to work out how to improve hard-to-treat homes; promote energy efficiency in homes across the city; develop tools and information to help residents, landlords and tenants carry out their own basic energy efficiency assessments; and set up a community energy buying club to help residents source cheaper energy efficiency technologies by buying in bulk.

Cabinet Member for Environment and Sustainability Cllr Pete West said: “We’re very pleased to see the LEAF funding being awarded to support these local groups. We recognise all the hard work they have been doing in the city to promote energy efficiency and carbon reduction, and this funding provides a great opportunity to work together and make a real difference for our residents.”

Tom Chute, project manager for Brighton & Hove 1010, said: “This is fantastic news for Brighton & Hove residents. With energy bills increasing every year, it’s vital that we help residents stop wasting energy and make their homes warmer and more comfortable to live in. LEAF helps us start this process.”

Brighton Energy Co-operative’s chair, Will Cottrell said: “We’re delighted to gain the LEAF funding, it’s a great chance for Brighton and Hove to take a lead nationally in improving the energy efficiency of our homes.”

Mischa Hewitt, Low Carbon Trust’s project manager, said: “The project will make a real difference to the city by making 19^th century housing fit for purpose in the 21st century. The housing in Brighton and Hove is some of the oldest and coldest in the country, and this is a great opportunity to improve it.”

Chair of BPEC Trustees Charlotte Smith said: “BPEC is well placed to build on our 30 years as a signposting organisation and information resource for Brighton and Hove residents. This grant will enable us to empower residents to take action in their own homes whether owned or rented, and enable us to promote community groups and green business within the city through our Green Pages directory.”

1)    The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s £10 million Local Energy Assessment Fund, managed by a number of community networks and administered by the Energy Saving Trust, was set up to help community groups understand their energy issues locally and prepare them for the Green Deal, revolving funds and for renewable energy financial incentives. www.decc.gov.uk

2)    Brighton & Hove 1010 will be running community events in Hanover with Hanover Action for Sustainable Living (25 February, 10 March) and Hollingdean with Hollingdean Development Trust (10 March), where residents can come and watch a demonstration of how to install basic energy efficiency measures and sign up to have a free home energy efficiency assessment.

3)    Brighton Energy Co-operative, working with the Community Association of Portslade South and Portslade Community Forum, will also be offering free assessments to householders and up to 12 community centres.

4)    BPEC will be playing a Sustainability Game at the Brighton Science Festival on 18 February at the Latest Music Bar from 11am, and collecting contact details of residents interested in the LEAF projects. The BPEC website (www.bpec.org) will host resources to enable people to survey their own home for renewable energy and energy saving options, along with other existing information. The Brighton Green Pages (www.brightongreenpages.org) will be further developed to provide access to independent, verified information on green businesses in the area, including quality benchmarking.

5)    Organisations involved:

Brighton Energy Co-operative

Brighton Energy Co-operative is a community organisation that helps people invest in local green energy schemes. www.brightonenergy.org.uk

The Green Building Partnership

The Green Building Partnership is a co-operative of eco refurbishment specialists based in Brighton & Hove. www.greenbuildingpartnership.co.uk/

Brighton & Hove 1010 CIC

Brighton & Hove 1010 is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes low carbon living by working with communities, ngos, businesses, and individuals to deliver projects that achieve measurable carbon reductions. www.brightonandhove1010.org

Low Carbon Trust

Low Carbon Trust is a not-for-profit organisation that was formed in 2001 to set up, manage and promote environmental projects.

www.lowcarbon.co.uk

Brighton Peace and Environment Centre

Brighton Peace and Environment Centre works with schools, community groups and individuals around issues of social justice, identity and diversity, peace and conflict, environmental sustainability and interdependence. www.bpec.org

Asking the question “How do you raise interest in a more sustainable lifestyle, that drives down carbon?” soon means you have to focus on…. how? What are the priorities? What are the problems in practice? With these issues in mind our Hanover10:10 Group is developing a project with our well-used Hanover Community Centre building.

This aging Victorian ex-school currently has no insulation, and is buckling under the weight of rising energy prices. The make-up of the building is like many of the local hard-to-insulate houses situated in the centre of a diverse population with a high proportion of let-to students private housing. Sounds like a great opportunity for a community-focussed, educational, and practically useful project to insulate, make adaptations, consider energy generation – and to do so that involves the community, local householders, local students and the local environment community group!

As part of a core Project Team I will be working to realise this partnership as part of a team spotting those local resident experts that can help, create opportunities for volunteers to work and see what can be done, and for the University of Brighton’s students to work up parts of the project, while gaining practical real-world experience they can embed into their studies.

Over the year the Hanover Centre Carbon RACE will seek to demonstrate the power of community, to act locally, but also to highlight the potential to cascade the experience throughout our community into local homes and beyond.

http://www.hasl.org.uk/carbon-race.html

http://uk.linkedin.com/in/hanover1010