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Local work available here

We are looking to recruit a number of ‘neighbourhood energy assistants’ who will be paid to work with the BeGreen project over the next six months, working with their neighbours to raise awareness of home energy efficiency, give basic home energy advice, loan out ‘smart electricity monitors’, refer people to  BeGreen for more detailed advice and [...]

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Coming soon….Harvest Ceilidh

[ October 30, 2010; 7:30 pm; ]

BeGreen and Sustaining Dunbar are sponsoring  a Harvest ceilidh at Hallhill on Saturday 30 October 7.30pm -11.30pm.Tickets will be on sale at the end of September. In the meantime please put the date in your diary and dig out your dancing shoes for the Little Biggar band.

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Energy Savings Trust Renewable grant scheme closes

 As a result of  the popularity of the Energy Saving Scotland home renewables grant scheme and the high  demand, the scheme has closed to all new applications.
The Energy Savings Trust (EST) have advised that anyone applying for a grant before at 5.30pm on Friday 23rd July 2010 will be put on a waiting list. [...]

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A Toolkit for Assessing the Feasibility of Retrofitting Biomass Fired District Heating

Thanks to funding from Community Energy Scotland and our consultants, On-Site Generation Ltd, we  now have a toolkit for any size of community to use for an initial assessment of whether the retrofitting of biomass fired district heating is likely to be feasible in your particular situation. The toolkit is in three parts, an initial Introduction to [...]

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