Great news - our solar offer to put panels on roofs at Woodside High School in Wood Green is now fully subscribed. The share offer, for £95,000 was launched on the positive investing platform Ethex, and took under 3 weeks to fill. We are now planning the solar panel install which will take place in August. We have also helped the school to successfully apply for funding to … [Read more...]
New solar scheme launches May 2017
On 13th May 2017 we held our share offer launch event in Muswell Hill with speakers Catherine West MP and Baroness Lynne Featherstone. En10ergy Limited was set up by Muswell Hill Sustainability seven years ago. En10ergy installed solar pv panels on the roof of Marks and Spencers on Muswell Hill Broadway in July 2010 and on the roof of the Muswell Hill Methodist Church on … [Read more...]
MHSG’s 2016 AGM
MHSG held it's AGM on 6th July 2016. We had a great discussion of what we've done over the last year (lots - see below) and got some great ideas for next year too. Thanks everyone for attending! Speaker meetings Michael Jacobs (from the think-tank IPPR) spoke to us in July about the upcoming Paris Climate talks Greg Haigh from DECC spoke in November about DECC’s … [Read more...]
Midsummer Muswell – 25th June
Despite torrential showers, we spoke to lots of people at our stall at Midsummer Muswell, who completed our green lifestyle prize quiz and found out about MHSG and all we do. Midsummer Muswell, brainchild of MHSG supporter Deanna Bogdanovich has been running for two years and is a great opportunity to celebrate our community, musical and artistic talent and … [Read more...]
21st Century Homes – Green Open Homes
Seeing is believing – on Saturday 14th May and Sunday 22nd May we’re offering free tours of local energy-efficient homes to see and hear how it’s done. The event follows the popular annual 21st Century Homes events in Highgate and Muswell Hill over the last 4 years. You'll have a chance to talk to the owners about what was involved, good local installers, pitfalls to avoid and … [Read more...]
Successful Hot Tips for Warm Homes Event
We had a very successful, well attended "Hot Tips for Warm Homes Event" on the 29th of February. The workshop was led by Tom Ruxton - energy efficiency expert, founder of the HEET project. The main targets for the event was to give advice to local residents on low cost insulation, draughtproofing, energy efficiency around the house, changing habits to save energy and how … [Read more...]