The Big Green Challenge, run by NESTA and supported by the Department for Energy and Climate Change, is a competition designed to stimulate and support community-led responses to climate change.Open to formally constituted and informal groups, entrants in the Big Green Challenge compete for funding and tailored support which will help them develop their idea.
With the winners now published, two innovative co-operatives have been successful and will get financial and business support from NESTA.
The Carbon Co-op is a simple but great idea. Like other buying groups, it will help bring people and communities together to purchase low-carbon products at discounted rates, ranging from energy meters to solar panels. It is a member-owned model designed to deliver large-scale reductions in domestic carbon emissions through co-operation.
CoRE (Community Renewable Energy) is a co-operative that works with community and voluntary groups, helping them set up comunity owned renewable energy plants. It takes a stake in the new business in order to sustain itself.
It is in the process of establishing a farmer owned anaerobic digester and a community owned wind turbine, amongst other innovations, and has already expanded from the North East into the North West and Yorkshire since being established in 2007.
www.core.coop
www.biggreenchallenge.org.uk
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