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Vote now for the Carbon Co-op!
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Carbon Co-op
The future's not fossil fueled, it's people powered!
The Carbon Co-op is asking for your support in helping us create a new and fair way to transform houses and communities through a programme of household energy reduction otherwise known as retrofit, vote for us here: http://www.energyshare.com/voting
What's the problem?
We all need to take action to reduce carbon emissions and tackle fuel poverty and rising energy bills but emissions and utility costs keep rising. We believe it's time to stop waiting around for someone else to sort things out for us and join together to show it can be done, starting with our own homes.
What's the solution?
Although a few people have transformed their properties into eco-superhomes, for most it's not that simple: we need to know what measures will work in their homes, the cost can be too much to tackle alone and the upfront costs can be high.
The Carbon Co-op was formed to address these problems:
1) We've got access to proven, award winning professional expertise.
2) By bringing people together with others who want to take action we can get access to much cheaper prices for materials, appliances, equipment and work.
3) With our sister co-op, the Carbon Re-Investment Society, we can bring the costs down and for those that can't afford to pay upfront we've developed a way to make repayments out of the big savings made in energy costs.
4) By working together in streets and communities we can share experiences and help friends and neighbours take control of their fuel bills.
Help us make it happen
To get this started we need to show how well it can work. The People's Republic of Energy is a campaign to enable four houses to get up to the energy (and of course bill) reduction targets we're aiming for, demonstrating the savings that can be made, bringing people together to have a say in how it's done and kick-starting our wider programme.
Please help us by voting, it takes just a minute, here:
http://www.energyshare.com/voting
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