Do you have ideas for how the community could deal with the potential impact of climate change? Two public drop-in sessions are being held, in Dorchester and Bridport, where community groups and residents will have a chance to help shape a lottery-funded project.

Newsletter March 2012

Our Green Drinks evenings are taking on a new dynamic. At the meeting
in February we enjoyed two very interesting presentations: The first was from Amy Merritt, who is working towards improving local governance to
promote sustainable outcomes and incentivising action for the wider community. Her full blog describing her paper presented at a conference in Geneva is here:

Dorset based organisation the Corner House has released a far reaching report, examining the issues of energy security.

How can fossil fuels and uranium be kept in the ground and agrofuels off the land in ways that do not inflict suffering upon millions? Mainstream policy responses to these issues are largely framed in terms of "energy security".

The Centre for Sustainable Energy and The Co-operative have announced a new initiative from which is being launched on February 1st. It’s called The Co-operative Community Energy Challenge and forms an integral new element of The Co-operative’s Clean Energy Revolution campaign.