101 Energy Saving Tips The following hints and tips were kindly presented by Jo Hillier from the Centre for Sustainable Energy and Mark Franklin of Warm and Safe Wiltshire at a recent workshop in Devizes. Please use and share them. Thank you! The Centre for Sustainable Energy is the parent charity of Warm and Safe […]
Category Archives: Latest News
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The shops are currently full of single-use items for Halloween, aimed at children. The image above shows some on display at a local supermarket. How about the treat of a trip to a café, but not just any café? On Saturday 28 October, The Pound Arts Centre in Corsham is hosting a Repair Café. Fixing […]
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Our next Zero Chippenham meeting is in person, 7-30pm Tuesday 3rd October, at The Business Cyber Centre, Unit 7 Greenways Business Park, Chippenham, SN15 1BN. Thank you to Tom Marshall at the Business Cyber Centre for facilitating the meeting.
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Zero Chippenham member Kerry tells us about her experience of a solar installation through the Zero Chippenham Community Solar scheme in Summer 2023… Kerry says… Why solar panels, why Zero Chippenham’s scheme? We were interested in getting solar panels through the Zero Chippenham scheme as we had heard good things from others that had been […]
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A case study of the Zero Chippenham Community Solar scheme solar installation on Sheldon Road Methodist Church, Chippenham. Jan tells us about their experience… Our church (Sheldon Rd Methodist Church, Chippenham) was investigating the idea of adding solar panels to our church roof at the beginning of 2018 and some of us attended a public meeting […]
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A Solar Installation case study from one of our applicants in their own words… We have a three-bedroom detached house and started looking for solar installers in July 2021. Through Zero Chippenham we obtained quotes from 1World Solar and Solarsense. Both were similar figures and showed us prices with and without batteries. We questioned […]
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As part of our aim to monitor and improve Air Quality in Chippenham we’ve launched a beta Environmental Dashboard with a live feed of PM10 and PM2.5 particulate readings. This is a low cost citizen science project using the £75 Enviro Urban Raspberry Pi Pico W board and Stevenson Screen from Pimoroni. The PMSA003 sensor […]
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It’s Carbon Measuring week 16-24 September at the Tiny Forest, Monkton Park, Chippenham. We need your help! Any time over the week go down to the Tiny Forest and measure the trees with the silver circle numbers and upload the information here on the Earth Watch website Alternatively come along on Saturday 16th September between […]