Posted 25 January 2010 at 3:06pm by
Andrew Hardwick MMUnion Community Carbon Ambassadors is being run in partnership with NUS , sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
MMUnion with NUS has trained 30 student volunteers in practical energy efficiency auditing skills. We will be deploying them I the local community, Auditing community organizations and small businesses in and around the Manchester and Cheshire campus’s to help reduce community carbon. We are hoping to achieve between 60-120 community audits over the course of the 2009/10 academic year.
Susan Nash, Vice President Society and Citizenship of NUS, said ‘This project seeks to tackle a number of pressing issues facing our members. From helping to bridge closer links between students, MMUnion and the community to providing students with valuable skills the Carbon Ambassador scheme is a shining example of what can be achieved by students, businesses and communities working collectively in the battle against climate change’.
This one-year project, launched in November 2009 seeks to achieve the following;
Recruit and train a total of 200 volunteers from 10 English universities.
Complete 600 community audits over the 2009/10 academic year resulting in over 3,000 energy-saving actions being implemented.
Create online case studies to include an auditor blog and live energy tracker for how much energy we have saved.
It is hoped that the audits will save a total of 300 tonnes of carbon nationally. For scaling purposes, the average carbon footprint of a person in the UK is around 10 tones of carbon a year.
For more information on the Carbon Ambassador project, please contact our Carbon Ambassador Project Officer
