Ecovation

Would you be interested in organising an open days event for eco-renovated or new build eco-homes in your area? COIN is promoting a model, which is well tested and effective and helping to build a national scheme of
ecohouse open days.

If you are interested we can help you with personal advice,
contacts and a pack containing all the materials you will need.

To order the 'How to do it' pack contact
toni (at) coinet.org.uk
or get more advice and support from our team - by calling
01865 403334

The scientific consensus is that for the UK to play its part in helping
the world avoid a rise of more than 2°C, we must reduce our carbon emissions
by 80 per cent by 2050. The household sector represents 27 per cent of our
total emissions and achieving deep cuts here is an imperative.

Thanks for your interest! The Ecovation team is looking forward
to working with you!!!


	National Eco-homes Open Day events
	How to organise a successful Open Day event... Would you be interested in organising an open days event for eco-renovated or new build eco-homes in your area? COIN is promoting a model, which is well tested and effective and helping to build a national scheme of ecohouse open days. If you are interested we can help you with personal advice, contacts and a pack containing all the materials you will need. To order the 'How to do it' pack contact toni (at) coinet.org.uk or get more advice and support from our team - by calling 01865 403334 The scientific consensus is that for the UK to play its part in helping the world avoid a rise of more than 2°C, we must reduce our carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. The household sector represents 27 per cent of our total emissions and achieving deep cuts here is an imperative. THE OPEN ECO-HOME PROJECT On-line advice is useful, but what people told us they really wanted was to speak directly to people and see things for themselves. So we teamed up with Climate X - www.climatex.org < http://www.climatex.org > and 18 householders in Oxfordshire to open their houses to the public during one weekend in November last year. Although there are other projects in the UK to open eco-houses to the public, this was the first event to open a large number of houses at the same time inspired by successful model of heritage open days and open gardens. The event was highly successful - more than 600 people made at least 1,200 visits (we say 'at least' because some houses became so busy at times that they lost track of the number of visitors!). We built a dedicated mailing list of 350 new contacts. Both visitors and householders gave very positive feedback suggesting that the event had, as anticipated, met a major need and had made eco-renovation more realistic, possible and desirable. The event also got excellent coverage in local media, a piece in The Times, and coverage on BBC World television. To view the report of last year's event, click here... COIN is now seeking other organisations that would like to replicate the open house model (or develop their own) in their own area. We are hoping to build sufficient coverage that we could work towards a national scheme on the same weekend or week. So far (this year) we have provided advice to two further open house schemes: Llanidloes Energy Solutions in Wales This followed our scheme very closely Brighton and Hove Eco-Open Houses http://www.ecoopenhouses.org/ This is working within the same format but with very smart materials and including new build. We are working closely with Sustainable Energy Academy Old Home Super Home http://www.sustainable-energyacademy.org.uk/pages/projects.html project which is developing a national network of eco open houses. SEA is dealing directly with the house owners, whereas we are dealing with local organisations to bring together house owners into a local scheme. SEA was a major partner in our first openday weekend. We are also talking with the Heritage Open Days scheme about ways to work together. The schemes are handled by the Civic Trust under their different national organisations in Scotland, England and Wales and all three have shown a strong interest in working with us- either this year or next. WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU We can pass on our experience, advice and contacts with other organisations. We will tell you of any ecohouses that we know of in your area (and suggest ways that you could find some). We will also send you an electronic pack containing: * A spreadsheet for finding houses * A summary of our experiences and advice * Leaflet and poster templates * Financial advice and time guides * Two page write up template Information packs for participating householders * A template press release * Template feedback forms You are welcome to use these materials as they are, or adapt them to your own needs. We would also welcome anybody interested to be part of our Ecovation case study list http://www.ecovation.org.uk/htmldesigns/casestudies.html . You don?t need to be located in Oxfordshire to share your experiences? NEXT STAGE If you are interested in knowing more please contact George - george(at)coinet.org.uk or Antonia - toni(at)coinet.org.uk We can send you the pack or, if you would prefer, start with a phone conversation. Please also pass this information on to any other organisations that might be interested in hosting an open house event. Thanks for your interest! The Ecovation team is looking forward to working with you!!!


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