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Help get solar onto more roofs in your community: Big Solar Co-op

How you can help get solar onto more roofs in your community: the Big Solar Co-op

Help get solar onto more roofs in your community: Big Solar Co-op

As it’s Community Energy Fortnight, I thought I’d have a word with my old mate Jon Hallé, who used to run Lowimpact’s ‘How to Make Biodiesel’ courses in the early noughties (and authored a book of the same title with us), and since then has gone on to found Sharenergy, who have helped over 100

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Open Money exchange system

The new Open Money exchange system: Michael Linton, founder of LETSystems

Open Money exchange system

This is Part 2 of a conversation with Michael Linton – founder of LETS, the moneyless exchange system. In Part 1 we talked about LETSystems and why it didn’t grow in the way Michael would have liked, and in Part 2 we’re going to talk about his new idea – Open Money.

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How to start a community garden Part 3

How to start a community garden: Part 3

How to start a community garden Part 3

In the final instalment of how to start a community garden with Ethical.net, it’s time to address the key issues of planning and design, as well as how to make sure it’s sustainable in every way.

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How to start a community garden: Part 2

How to start a community garden: Part 2

How to start a community garden: Part 2

We explore the nuts and bolts of how to start a community garden with Ethical.net, this time tackling finding a site and first steps towards sourcing funding.

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How to start a community garden - Part 1

How to start a community garden: Part 1

How to start a community garden - Part 1

With the UK lockdown ongoing, many of us will be dreaming of days when we can once again be out and about and active in our local community. With this in mind, we share a series from Ethical.net exploring how to start a community garden.

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Storing value in a mutual credit world

Storing value in a mutual credit world: Chris Cook

Storing value in a mutual credit world

This is the third in a series of interviews that will accompany a book I’m writing, that will be published by Chelsea Green – an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that the book is describing, built around a mutual credit core. Today I’m talking with Chris Cook. He was the designer of

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