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Job Opportunity: Develop a 'Warm Homes on Prescription Programme' in Nottinghamshire
Thu, 23 July 2015
The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Local Authorities’ Energy Partnership (LAEP) is recruiting a full time Programme Manager to develop and manage the delivery of a Nottinghamshire-wide ‘Healthy Housing’ affordable warmth programme. The programme will provide energy efficiency improvements and advice to householders, targeting people in fuel poverty and with long-term health conditions made worse by living in cold, damp homes.
The post holder will be an experienced project manager. Experience of delivering domestic energy efficiency and/or affordable warmth projects will be essential, along with the ability to design and manage a complex work programme.
The post will be based at Newark and Sherwood District Council but the postholder will work with all seven district councils and all six Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in Nottinghamshire.
Enter the Nottingham Post Environmental Awards
Thu, 23 July 2015Are you taking action to help the local environment or do you know someone who is?
Then why not nominate them for the Nottingham Post Environmental Awards? This is a great chance for community groups, individuals and organisations in Nottinghamshire who are taking action on climate change and other envrionmental issues to get their work recognised.
Enter now, read about some of the entires already made, or find out what difference an award has made to some of last year's winners.
Nominations close on 28th August at midday.
Survey on Reducing Household Waste
Wed, 22 July 2015A researcher trying to find out if online shopping is encouraging us to reduce the amount of food we waste would like to hear from you.
If you'd like to help Jame McGowan find out if internet shopping for our food can really help us throw away less food, please respond to his survey by Fri 31st July.
Want to attend a Community Climate Action Network Conference?
Fri, 10 July 2015We’re considering putting on a one-day conference for individuals and community groups in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire who are taking action on climate change. We would like to find out if there is sufficient interest in this and, if so, what you would like to get out of such a conference. Similar events have proved popular in the past. Please note: this would be subject to funding being available and we’re not making any promises!
In order to help us decide please spend five minutes completing this short survey: http://bit.ly/1IGsvKx
Please complete the survey by Sunday 26th July.
You will then be entered into a draw to win a copy of The Astronaut, The Cake and Tomorrow by Matt Sisson, a Nottinghamshire-based author. This book looks at the connections between our environmental and economic crises and the better world that could emerge if we can find the imagination and political will to bring it in to being:www.cakeforastronauts.org.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About The U.N. Climate Talks
Mon, 6 July 2015This November will see historic global talks in Paris on climate change. Find out more about the talks and their potential impact with this guide, the first in a series by Environmental Journalist Fiona Harvey, which addresses such questions as ‘What is supposed to happen in Paris?’, ‘What is at stake?’, and ‘What can go wrong?.’
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