This week on Radio Nova we were looking at ways you can get involved locally in climate action.
Ten reasons to start or join a community energy project
- You’ll be building the system needed to stop the climate crisis
- Community renewables redirect money supporting the fossil fuel system
- It can reduce energy poverty in your area
- You’ll get to know your neighbours and strengthen your community
- You will produce your own renewable energy
- It creates spaces to educate people on the issues of energy, climate and democracy
- It keeps the money locally in your community
- You will show other communities what is possible
- It will contribute to creating a more local, more circular economy
- You will be building the kind of world you want to see
Links for more information:
www.seai.ie/community-energy/sustainable-energy-communities
www.lightness-project.eu/getting-involved-in-energy-communities
http://www.react2020.eu/2022/02/22/support-for-the-creation-of-local-energy-communities/
