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2019 AGM report: Healing our homes in an age of heating

15th December 2019

Facing up to the challenge of making 25 million UK homes ready for the low carbon world we need is a huge challenge. With government and the housebuilding industry having pretty much deserted the fight, community energy organisations are stepping up to try to find a way forward. For our AGM this year we heard

Tags: AGM, climate emergency, energy saving, housing, insulation, retrofit

Our new thermal camera is (climate) striking!

7th October 2019

YCE had a stall at the amazing Global Climate Strike rally in York on September 20th – though St Helen’s Square was packed so tightly that it would be easy to have missed us! We took along our home energy loss board and we also thought this might be the ideal opportunity to distribute some

Tags: climate change, climate emergency, events, local, york

Jolly busy June!

11th June 2019

June is looking jolly busy for us and we hope that you will find some time to join us in between enjoying the sunshine (or rain). We also hope that the recent local elections will bring about some interesting collaborations (below is one example) and get community energy back on track soon – whether it

Tags: campaigning, climate change, climate emergency, community energy, energy saving, events, workshop, york

Energy Café 3: bold beginnings, scaling up and fighting fuel poverty

12th April 2019

On 11th April 2019, YCE held Energy Café 3 at Quaker Meeting House, which featured a progress update on our Warmer York project and two talks from guest speakers about insulating houses on a national scale and fighting fuel poverty. First up was Russell Smith from RetrofitWorks, who told us about his mission to make

Tags: climate change, climate emergency, energy cafe, energy saving, events, fuel poverty, insulation, reduce emissions, york

Climate emergency, great YorSpace news and springing into action

26th March 2019

We’re very pleased to hear that the City of York Council has declared a climate emergency and hope to see more support for local action to reduce carbon emissions. Are YOU ready to spring into climate action with us? Whether you roll up your sleeves at our “Housewarming Party” or look for inspiration at the

Tags: climate emergency, energy cafe, insulation, workshop, Yorspace

Energy Café takes the message to our MPs

3rd August 2018

The national “Speak up” week of lobbying on Climate Change took place from June 30th to July 8th – coinciding once again with Community Energy Fortnight. Our ‘Energy Café’ event, organised in co-operation with local sustainability champions St Nicks, was an evening where people could talk with experts to get advice and also debate what

Tags: activism, climate emergency, energy cafe, energy saving