Real Energy Savings at the CIBSE/E.ON Low Carbon Performance Awards
- Posted on 12th February, 08
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When I went along to the CIBSE Low Carbon Performance Awards last Wednesday, I was really impressed. Not just because there were 800 people all there in one room to celebrate the amount of energy that had been saved, but that the scheme had been voluntary.
The Awards were about people saving energy over 100 days as part of the CIBSE/E.ON 100 Day Carbon Clean Up Campaign. CIBSE provided information packs to help people understand the simple ways that they could save energy in the workplace.
I really enjoyed being there, the MC and other speaker was the geologist Dr. Iain Stewart and his film and speech were very interesting. I was lucky enough to get to meet him later in the evening and have a chat – some of what he has seen is truly amazing.
It was just a really nice feeling being in a room with so many people who ‘get it’. People who are not just ‘understanding’, but who are ‘doing’. People who are saving energy, and who are, above all, questioning what is going on around them. People who are stopping to think, and making those first steps to do something about it. I had been asked to speak for a few minutes which I did, and you could feel in the room that everyone really cared. As I said in my speech – it was great to see that energy saving could work financially. What was in that room was the proof – and that it was great to see that things had actually been done, and were real savings.
From mineral extractors to hospitals, universities to councils and institutions to individuals, they were all very motivated people. I felt privileged to be among them!
And if only the hot air from the speeches could have been captured and reused
. Fantastic , ride the ziegiest , and hopefully it can be one of those ideas that stays and produces form.
People do need to watch their environment learn to understand their impacts. Why they buy this . A maturate attitude in not only environmental issues , but within themselves. Even their thoughts , and what their eat, question why , how what when. Its so important that this is raised and pushed for everyone to become aware one man (in the genus context) makes a difference .
Thank you