Welcome to Cutting the Carbon
Running a green thread through everything you do…
Going green can improve quality of life
Going green can cut costs, improve quality of life, make organisations better equipped to deal with the future and help to prevent runaway climate change. cuttingthecarbon specialises in climate change and peak oil workshops and conferences for businesses, NGOs and public bodies..
We can help you understand
We help businesses, NGOs and public bodies to understand climate change more clearly and to consider the implications of the coming end of cheap fossil fuels (‘peak oil’)..
General climate change workshops
We can offer general climate change workshops for teambuilding or more detailed seminars on particular aspects of sustainability for senior executives.
UK Passivhaus Conference
We also organise environmental events like the UK Passivhaus Conference
We seek to inspire change
Our pledge is to prepare your organisation for change, to identify opportunities for action, and to run a green thread through everything you do. Above all we seek to inspire change before change is forced upon us.
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10 Reasons Why You Should Not Eat Meat
As we had discussed the importance of reducing the meat presence in our diets earlier, we will use this article to present 10 reasons why you should not eat meat. Of course, this is not an overnight process as it takes time to get used to a diet without meat, but considering all the benefits […]
Chris Huhne Calls For Every New Home To Reach The Passivhaus Standard
The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne, has described the Passivhaus comfort and energy efficiency standard as “a watershed moment in our relationship with the built environment” and said he “would like to see every new home in the UK reach the standard.” Mr Huhne was speaking at the first ever […]
The Health Decline Of The UK’s Countryside
The problem of urbanization, carbon level and human’s impact on our environment can be see in the simplest form that shows the level of damage that has been done to the UK’s countryside. The latest study points out the problem of pollinators in the UK, as one-third of wild bees have ceased to exist in […]
Passivhaus – The Comfortable And Energy Efficient Standard
Since humans do more and more damage to our planet every day, it becomes obvious that we could use some new concepts whose theory revolves around the planet’s protection. The real future of nature’s and environment’s preservation, especially when speaking about houses and buildings, lays in the high level of comfort and small level of […]