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By Simon Brammer, Ashden UK Programme Manager
In case you missed it, last week the Department of Energy and Climate Change published the results of a detailed study of household power demand, revealing worrying upward trends. For example, it found that standby consumption in a household currently amounts to 9-16% of UK domestic power demand, contrasting to a previously estimated 5-10%.
Share this storyBy Julia Hawkins, Ashden PR and Digital Media Manager
During our Awards week at the end of May we were delighted to welcome back Mohammed Parpia, whose company Zara Solar won an Ashden Award in 2007 for rolling out solar energy to the rural poor in Tanzania. In the midst of the media frenzy I managed to squeeze in a coffee with him, when I found out how his business has progressed over the past 5 years...
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By Dr David Fulford, Ashden Assessor
Share this storyGrameen Shakti won an Ashden Gold Award in 2006 for providing photovoltaic solar-home-systems through affordable loans to 65,000 households in Bangladesh. It has since gone from strength to strength, winning an Ashden Oustanding Achievement award in 2008 and diversifying into providing clean cooking solutions, selling cheap, efficient cooking stoves and constructing biogas plants with trained technicians.
Share this storyBy Carla Jones, Communications Assistant
It would be putting it mildly to say that it has been a frustrating couple of weeks in the world of sustainability, with the outcomes of the Rio+20 Summit described by George Monbiot as ‘perhaps the greatest failure of collective leadership since the first world war’.
Just how do you build leadership and where does it get nurtured? I was at the Eden Project in Cornwall last week where, at the final workshop of our Low Energy Sustainable Schools (LESS) CO2 programme, schools in Devon and Cornwall showed that empowering pupils to take action and experience their own agency – in other words, creating an environment where students gain the confidence to make a difference – is key.
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