h.Energy – keep it local, reduce your carbon footprint
Time is ticking by for the sign up for this year’s h.Energy, you need to sign up by the deadline 19th June! You can sign up right here. I’m sincerely hoping that you all have plans up your sleeves that you are planning to register on the New Leaf website? just in case you need some encouragement, here are a few more ideas:
Open Eco Homes – if you have thought at all about how to make your home a more energy efficient environment, and plan to achieve this via a process of hi-tec investment or (perhaps especially) via behaviour change and DIY measures, please consider opening your doors to talk to people about what you are doing for a couple of hours during this h.Energy.
Repair Cafes – we have insurance for Repair Cafes around the county this h.Energy, so if your community would like to try one, please get in touch and we will help you get set up – drawing on the expertise of the Malvern Hills Repair Café team.
h.Energy Coffee Mornings – consider hosting a coffee morning over the h.Energy weekend. Simply decide on a theme for your coffee morning (positive change / local climate action / helping our bees / insulating your home … etc? ), book a couple of tables for a couple of hours with your friendly local café owner, and register your event.
Working Party – a new slant on the Eco-Home idea… if you would like to do something to make your home more energy efficient, and this would benefit from a few additional pairs of hands (to build a log store / create a compost patch / draft proof some of those gaps / insulate the loft…) why not host a Working Party over the h.Energy weekend for a couple of hours. Just let us know a bit about your home, and the work you would like to do, and how this would improve your home energy efficiency, and we’ll add you to the event list…
Community Bunting Making – Jane Denny has very kindly said that she will lead a few communities in making their own community bunting! … Is this something your local community would like to take her up on? If so please get in touch…
Or how about a Clothes Swap, or a pub quiz, or a bring and share meal, or a guided walk, or a bus safari…?
There are lots more ideas here: http://www.herefordshirenewleaf.org.uk/page/henergy
And you can register events by following the links here: http://www.herefordshirenewleaf.org.uk/node/110
We have great plans for this year’s h.Energy, keeping things small, local, and focused on meaningful actions and conversations that can help to change the story of Herefordshire