Marches Energy Agency (MEA), a 2009 Ashden Award winner, has produced an excellent workbook for decision makers on how to achieve a low carbon footprint.

The workbook aims to inspire action, as MEA Director Richard Davies says "it seeks to help all that use it to get from aspiration to planning practical action". It is packed full of practical advice on how to calculate your carbon footprint, create a vision and make it happen. The pack is produced by the MEA in partnership with the Energy Saving Trust.

As part of our judging process earlier this year, David Fulford had the chance to catch up with BIOTECH Ltd, in Kerala, India. Their award-winning work is building domestic, commercial and municipal biogas plants. BIOTECH has grown a lot since winning in 2007 and as a result of their ongoing research and development, they’ve now developed two innovations which takes them closer to meeting the large demand for their biogas systems.

Yesterday’s Guardian Sustainable Business debate on how business can help enable energy access for all generated some heat and a lot of light on the challenges and opportunities for achieving the UN goal of universal energy access by 2030.

It’s clear to us at Ashden that many businesses are already leading the way in getting clean, efficient, affordable fuels to where they’re most needed: the poorest of the poor.