
Ashden Award finalists participating at the upcoming Ashden 2012 Conference on 29 May will be invited to pass on their messages for Rio+20 in support of the UN’s ‘Sustainable Energy for All’ initiative.
Please note that applications are only admissable by email.

Ashden Award finalists participating at the upcoming Ashden 2012 Conference on 29 May will be invited to pass on their messages for Rio+20 in support of the UN’s ‘Sustainable Energy for All’ initiative.
Speakers announced for UK session of Ashden 2012 conference; behaviour change a key theme
Leading experts in behaviour change and sustainability will discuss how to change our energy culture at the morning, UK-focused session of Ashden’s 2012 Conference: Sustainable energy for all on 29 May.
We are excited to announce that speakers have now been finalised for this session, which will be chaired by sustainability guru Jonathon Porrit, Founder Director of Forum for the Future and former Chair of the Sustainable Development Commission.

On the eve of the London meeting of energy ministers from around the world, Sarah Butler-Sloss, Founder Director of Ashden, called on the government to stick up for small and medium-sized clean energy entrepreneurs in the UK.
Said Butler-Sloss:

We are excited to announce the selection of 15 clean energy pioneers across the UK and developing world as finalists for the Ashden Awards 2012. The finalists will compete for more than £190,000 in prize money, with the winners to be announced at a prestigious ceremony in London on 30 May 2012.
Manufacturer EOC Ltd and Stagecoach Manchester have won the inaugural Greater Manchester Green Business Awards, set up by Ashden Award winner ENWORKS with the Manchester Chamber of Commerce to celebrate environmental business excellence in Greater Manchester.

Two of the UK’s first three schools to receive the stringent Passivhaus certification are designed by Architype, previous Ashden award winners for their high standards of sustainable building design. Passivhaus is a green building system based on dramatically reducing the requirement for space heating and cooling, whilst creating excellent indoor comfort levels. The approach was developed in Germany in the early 1990s.