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Power Calderdale: Free One Day Conference

How can our economy thrive when we also need to reduce our fossil fuel use? How do we reduce inequality against a backdrop of austerity? Calderdale needs a strong, balanced economy. How can we work together to empower people and promote fair and equal opportunities?

Power Calderdale

Morning session – Business & Economy: workshops on Cutting Costs, Cutting Carbon; District Heating in Halifax; Making buildings energy efficient; and Resource Efficiency Funding
Afternoon session – People & Place: Climate Change and Public Health Impacts; Transport Detox; Calderdale – A Place That Floods; and Improving green spaces

Hear more about our projects. Be inspired by best practice from elsewhere. Help us plan for a sustainable future.

Organised by Caldedale Council and Calderdale’s Energy Future
Organiser: Sam Saxby, Calderdale Council Tel: 01422 392074
Email: Sam.Saxby@calderdale.gov.uk

Free event: Register via Eventbrite

Event opened by: Cllr Tim Swift, Leader of Calderdale Council


Morning Session (9.30 – 12.30) : Business and Economy

  1. Cutting Costs, Cutting Carbon. Dru Widdowson, 6C + David Lees, ABS Print
    When you are looking to cut your energy bills and reduce air pollution; where should you start? Who can help? Get top tips from energy expert Lucia at 6C and hear a local business talk about their journey
  2. District Heating in Halifax. Ben Adey-Johnson, ARUP
    Cheaper bills, cleaner heating and local profits. It sounds great – but installing district heat means laying a completely new piping network down throughout our Town Centre. Do the benefits outweigh the headaches? Feasibility work is underway at present – come along to find out more.
  3. Cleaning up Buildings. Darren Garner, SSE
    17% of our carbon emissions come from buildings. It’s hard to know where to start with cleaning up these assets – and heritage buildings are particularly tricky to get right. SSE will share a range of UK case studies to explain what technologies can help – and what the payback is like for your investment.
  4. Resource Efficiency Funding. Vincent McCabe, Leeds City Region
    Leeds City Region (LCR) are currently offering grant funding and support to help small and medium-sized businesses identify and invest in measures which cut CO2 and waste. Could their funding help you?

Discussion Groups: community renewable energy, building retrofit; smarter energy purchasing, low-carbon funding, priorities

Afternoon Session (13.30 – 16.00) : People and Places

  1. Climate Change and Public Health Impacts. Paul Butcher, Calderdale Council

    Climate change is among the greatest health risks of the 21st Century. Rising temperatures and more extreme weather events cost lives directly, increase transmission and spread of infectious diseases, and undermine the environmental determinants of health, including clean air and water, and sufficient food. Actions to reduce carbon emissions are actions to protect and improve health for future generations and all organisations and communities have a part to play. ‘Society grows great when people plant trees in the knowledge they will never sit in their shade’.

  2. Transport Detox. Mary Farrar, Calderdale CouncilIt’s impossible to talk about cutting CO2 without talking about transport – it’s responsible for 24% of our collective carbon footprint. Air pollution levels are causing a range of health problems in our cities. Can we use local policy to encourage people to choose more active lifestyles – to improve health and drive down pollution at the same time?
  3. Calderdale – A Place That Floods. Amanda McDermott, Slow the Flow CalderdaleThere is a huge amount of cross-agency collaboration and investment going on to protect Calderdale and make us more resilient. This includes work to make communities stronger and to improve both the rural and urban environment to provide natural flood management.
  4. Could flooding turn out to be a positive force – could it actually make Calderdale a stronger, greener place?
  5. Some areas of Calderdale are becoming notorious for flooding. And climate change makes wetter winters and flooding more likely in the future.
  6. Green Value. Moy Cash, Calderdale CouncilThat’s a big shopping list, but the evidence is mounting that engaging people in improving green spaces delivers all of the above objectives.
  7. Let’s find out more about Calderdale’s best green space projects and spread the word.
  8. So; we need to encourage people to exercise more. Improve mental health. Build stronger communities. Increase the economic value of our towns and houses. Cut Council spending. Increase biodiversity. And improve education.

Discussion Groups: Potential for natural flood management sites, priorities for Calderdale, making things happen, green space, transportation, planning policy

Please book your ticket for the morning session, the afternoon session – or both sessions – by clicking the green “Register” button to the right of this screen.

Places are free, but numbers are limited – register now to guarantee your place.

Event Details

Location Square Chapel Arts Centre
Halifax, HX1 1QG
Start Wednesday 3 May 2017 9:30am
Finish Wednesday 3 May 2017 4:00pm


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