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Act now
1. ​Sign-up to the Hanover Action email list, and register you interest in 'insulation/energy reduction' so that you are alerted to events and activities. In you live in Hanover, then see our regular entry in the Hanover Directory. 
2. Check out the information to help you reduce energy/carbon emissions at home. See what is available in Your Energy Sussex. See this video of a Paul's Hanover house eco-renovation to see what you could achieve.
3. Do some practical carbon reduction at home: Energy Efficiency Advice Centre (Brighton & Hove Council). Change your light bulbs! See helpful 10:10 Guide to LED Lighting at your Home, and the multi-language (Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Cantonese, French, Gujarati, Kurdish, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Urdu and Welsh) Energy Advice CD available on request from National Energy Action. 
4. Get involved – come to the regular monthly Hanover10:10 Projects Meetings. See how you can join in. Hear about some of the work we have done on the Hanover Centre in this EcoBeeProject interview, and at The Hanover Centre environment Page.  
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5. Check out the local ethical investment opportunities from low carbon energy providers such as our local Brighton & Hove Energy Services Coop. (BHESCo), Brighton Energy Cooperative (BEC), and local regional Community Energy South.
New Service in 2016
BHESCo Launches New Home Visit Service
"We are delighted to announce that we will be launching a new home energy assessment and installation service from January 2016.  The service will be affordable and impartial enabling everyone in the community to receive a complete home energy assessment tailored to their circumstances. 
 
Our friendly and professional Home Energy Advisors will arrange to visit your home to identify how you could save money and stay warm in the winter months.  They will also be on hand to provide impartial energy supplier switching advice and can advise on whether you may be eligible for available benefits or grants towards your energy bills.  We will prepare an energy saving report from which you can choose the improvement that you would like us to install."

Help with Energy Efficiency
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Hanover1010 Project, in partnership with BHESCo (community energy service coop)

To survey houses in Hanover that could benefit from loft insulation. We need to overcome the barriers to loft insulation so working to help people “de-clutter” to lofts, to enable them to be insulated. The first wave of the survey ended in July and identified 24 homes in need. If you think you could benefit from this community initiative, then please continue to fill out this survey to register your interest at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/V58GZFX
July 2015: A free loft clearance and insulation package was won by one lucky Hanover entrant funded by BHESCo.

Frack-Free Community

Hanover Action is supporting the community action for a frack-free Sussex. It  has been shown in Australia that if communities come together and declare an absolute rejection of fracking in their area the industry has to ultimately withdraw. We want to show that we will not tolerate these risks to our countryside, water, air and food. We are starting to gather support in Hanover for a frack-free Sussex; we are going door to door to inform people of the threats and gather support for frack-free community declarations on a street by street basis.

If you want to get involved, find out more and help to spread the word among your neighbours, contact us and we can tell you more.
Exploratory drilling for shale oil started in Balcombe, 20 miles north of Brighton. West Sussex County Council have granted permission and the government is intent on rolling out fracking across Britain. This could mean a network of wells, compressor stations, pipelines, toxic gas flares, industrial truck traffic and possible earth tremors, threatening our unique downs landscapes, our water supplies and local food. Fracking uses a huge amount of fresh water which when mixed with fracking chemicals becomes toxic and can never be returned to the water supply.

Speaking at Balcombe, Brighton MP Caroline Lucas explained why shale oil and gas must be left in the ground, if we are to avoid catastrophic climate change:
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Links and information on fracking
Action you can take 
  • Urgent - The Great Gas Gala, please be part of a continuous presence at the drill site, Balcombe. See the wish list for what to bring if you can get there. Special events are being held at the site. All are welcome.

Also...
  • Get involved in our door knocking campaign in Hanover to encourage signing up to a community declaration on a frack free Sussex. Scotland Street and Hartington Place have already declared themselves frack-free. If you would like to help email contacthasl@gmail.com
  • Sign this Petition to the University of Sussex to "divest from companies that have breached human rights and threaten the environment, and actively commit to investing in low-carbon assets and renewable energy within the next five years"
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Hanover10:10 is on Linkedin

Useful Resources

1. What is my carbon footprint?
2. What is Energy Efficiency?
3. How can i get involved in a 'carbon conversation'?
4. How can I learn more to understand the jargon?
5. Where is the most recent view from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
Page Last Updated: 10 December 2015. Report any comments and errors to Hanover1010@gmail.com