WELCOME TO THE NEW LOOK ECO CENTRE WEBSITE

Welcome to the new look ECO Centre Website.

If your a regular reader you will have no doubt noticed a few major changes!  After many years as a utilitarian site with access to resources that many have found useful, we are now moving to a site that aims to engage environmentalists and non-environmentalists alike.

Much of the ECO CEntre's work is about advice and guidance, but over the last few years we have been slowly shifting the emphasis to action and measures. Action and measures that will result in a real reduction to our impact on the environment. All our projects are underpinned by the aim to deliver quantifiable outcomes in all projects.  What does this mean?

We would prefer to see five households take positive steps to improving their energy efficiency than give advice to fifty and not know what happened afterwards.  The message has been circulating for years now, our reliance on fossil fuels is unsustainable. We must reduce our consumption now.

The ECO Centre's primary audiences are the household and community sector. Individually, you may be thinking, our contribution to the climate change problem is negligible. But as a group, the UK's domestic sector is contributing 30% of the UK's carbon dioxide emissions. It is the excess of these emissions which is accelerating climate change and giving rise to the headline grabbing events of the last ten years.

By encouraging everyone to consume less, we reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. This reduced reliance allows the finite resources we do have to last longer while we investigate suitable alternatives.  It can be examined on a global scale, or more usefully on a local scale.  Nearly all of us rely on fossil fuels to heat and power our homes and move us from one place to another.  It is perfectly feasible and in some cases very simple to adopt behavioural changes, or install low cost measures, that will reduce the amount of energy we use.

This site will point you in the direction of these small steps, which when taken together could become a great stride, towards a sustainable future.

We are not asking you all to take backward steps and return to the dark ages. We are not asking you to spend money you haven't got on renewable technologies and cutting edge energy saving devices. But we are asking you to consider the consequences of all your consumption and question whether you need to consume as much as you do to have as fulfilling a life.

We think you can, and we want to help you realise this.  Read about the range of projects we are involved in; energy efficiency; renewable energy; public education; fuel poverty. Look at our fact sheets and complete the Home Energy Check. Call us, or your local Energy Efficiency Advice Centre for free and see what assistance there may be for common energy efficiency measures.

This is just our opinion. We hope to bring you the opinion of others involved in the sustainability debate on a regular basis to this website. Keep your eyes on the editorial section of the home page.  If you want to keep in touch with us and our activities, join the mailing list in the contacts section of the site.

Thanks for your interest!