In the autumn of 2006 ruralnet|uk teamed up with the Carnegie Rural Community Development Programme to seek to raise awareness and promote collective approaches to reducing energy use and increasing energy production from renewable sources, or in shorthand, reducing the carbon footprint of communities.
We have invested in the design of a national programme to support communities who are working collectively to reduce their carbon footprint. We want to support communities on the leading edge who know a lot more about the practicalities than we do and we also want to support communities who want to do the same. We also want to raise awareness amongst others who haven’t even thought about this approach before.
Further details are contained in these documents:

Original A4 Summary - October 2006 (Format: PDF, Size: 122K)
Executive Summary - Version 4.4 - February 2007 (Format: PDF, Size: 184K)
Proposal - version 5.4D - April 2007 (Format: PDF, Size:230K)