Tech & Innovation

How can we address the challenge of technology and innovation?

Your latest stories addressing tech and innovation

Harborough Energy

Helping to deliver affordable community-owned clean energy across Harborough district.

Harborough
  • Carbon emissions
  • Greater fairness
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Built Environment
  • Circular Economy

Big Solar Co-op

Making community solar PV viable across a huge range of sites.

UK
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy

Ty Solar Zero Carbon homes

Addressing energy poverty and wellbeing in housing via the use of solar energy and timber build.

Pembrokeshire
  • Carbon emissions
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Built Environment
  • Circular Economy
  • Energy

District Eating

Utilising waste heat and CO2 for horticultural projects that create jobs and produce food.

Barnsley
  • Carbon emissions
  • Food security & supply
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture
  • Circular Economy
  • Energy

Energy Superhub Oxford

Demonstrating an integrated approach to decarbonising power, transport and heat in Oxford.

Oxford
  • Air pollution
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Built Environment
  • Transport

Yes! Recycling

Recycling complex polymer waste instead of sending to landfill.

Buckinghamshire
  • Excessive consumption
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Waste
  • Circular Economy

Think big locally

Why technology and innovation?

New technology and innovation has its role to play. It is a potent force in reshaping how we live and work together more resourcefully. Ideally, technology and innovation enable us to be more connected, to live better on less instead of better on more, and to make fewer resources stretch further. It can also put more people in control and enable a distributed capacity for making change happen faster, everywhere.

Fixing Our Throwaway Economy

Hear how The Fixing Factory is reducing electronic waste whilst tackling digital inequality and climate change, and training the ‘fixers of the future’.

Initiatives addressing tech and innovation

Harborough Energy

Helping to deliver affordable community-owned clean energy across Harborough district.

Harborough
  • Carbon emissions
  • Greater fairness
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Built Environment
  • Circular Economy

Big Solar Co-op

Making community solar PV viable across a huge range of sites.

UK
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy

Ty Solar Zero Carbon homes

Addressing energy poverty and wellbeing in housing via the use of solar energy and timber build.

Pembrokeshire
  • Carbon emissions
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Built Environment
  • Circular Economy
  • Energy

District Eating

Utilising waste heat and CO2 for horticultural projects that create jobs and produce food.

Barnsley
  • Carbon emissions
  • Food security & supply
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture
  • Circular Economy
  • Energy

Energy Superhub Oxford

Demonstrating an integrated approach to decarbonising power, transport and heat in Oxford.

Oxford
  • Air pollution
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Built Environment
  • Transport

Yes! Recycling

Recycling complex polymer waste instead of sending to landfill.

Buckinghamshire
  • Excessive consumption
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Waste
  • Circular Economy

Raasay Community Renewables

Building two community-owned hydro schemes on the Isle of Raasay.

Highland
  • Air pollution
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

ESCO-In-A-Box

Bringing the benefits of energy efficiency to hard-to-reach businesses via a local one-stop shop.

Cherwell
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Finance
  • Built Environment
  • Energy

European Marine Energy Centre

Reducing the cost and time for testing new offshore power generation.

Orkney Islands
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Transport

ReFLEX Orkney

Pioneering an integrated, affordable, low-carbon energy system for the future.

Orkney Islands
  • Carbon emissions
  • Greater fairness
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Built Environment
  • Transport

Reading Hydro CBS - A community funded, built and operated hydropower plant

To harness the power of water to generate renewable low-carbon electricity on the River Thames

Reading
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Energy
  • Biodiversity & Nature

Charge My Street

Installing and operating community electric vehicle chargepoints.

Lancaster
  • Carbon emissions
  • Greater fairness
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Transport
  • Energy
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