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New ACT campaign encourages co-operatives to work together on climate change(23/09/2009)
ACT ! – Addressing the Climate Threat – is a new campaign being run by Cooperatives Europe which launched on 21 September 2009 to coincide with the UN’s Global Climate Week. The campaign will co-ordinate and promote the activities of co-operatives across Europe to ensure that their voice is heard and that there is an effective response by co-operatives and their members to the threat of impending climate change. Bob Burlton, the driving for... [more]
Co-operative plans to make energy from farm muck in Cumbria(30/04/2009)
A renewable energy co-operative has announced plans to make energy from farm muck and help boost Cumbria’s farming economy. Community Renewable Energy North West (CoRE NW), a co-operative based in Workington, plans to set up a number of farmers’ co-operatives, each of which will produce electricity and heat from manure and silage using anaerobic digestion. The first of these farmers’ co-operatives, which will be at Middle Farm in Silloth, Nor... [more]
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