Retrofitting isn’t just about improving individual homes—it’s an opportunity to strengthen communities, boost local economies, and create spaces that bring people together.
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Explore how locally sourced material reconnects communities to their landscapes.
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Solar roofs - installation of PV panels and batteries taking advantage of scale.
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Speak with experts: Our surgery-style event will include retrofit advisors, architects, locals who have retrofitted and specialists in sustainable building techniques.
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What skills and expertise do we need to make wide-scale retrofitting a reality in Dorset? This webinar will dive into the practicalities of building physics, workforce development, and how a Retrofit One-Stop Shop could support local tradespeople and contractors.
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This beginner-friendly webinar will explore the basics of retrofitting
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Dorset Climate Action Network (DCAN) has been awarded funding from the Carbon Literacy Community Pot and is pleased to offer monthly training and accreditation workshops for town and parish councils and community groups in the Dorset area.
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Missed an online Event or need a recap? We record all of our online events, you can find them here or at our YouTube account.
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Fortnightly Open Meeting - Mondays, where all our Team Coordinators come together to discuss and plan our projects and prioritise tasks. Guests and members are very welcome to join us.
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Following on from our series of Food Resilience meetings in 2024 Co-Organised with Help and Kindness, on January 27th a further meeting was held which invited those already working with food, as well as parish, town and county councillors to gather to see how we could support each other to create a local, sustainable, healthy, fair and affordable food system throughout the county.
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DCAN Energy Team's Battery Storage Webinar
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A recent search of statistics sourced from recognised scientific bodies paints a sobering picture of the near future both globally and in the UK.
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BBC report states that burning rubbish in incinerators to make electricity is now the dirtiest way the UK generates power
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On September 16th, a junior minister ignored advice from the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport and Historic England, approved a 202,000-tonne-per-year waste incinerator in the heart of Dorset's UNESCO-designated Jurassic Coast at Portland.
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This in depth event on the 5th June 2024 examined the truth of the greenwashing accusation made against private and public sector initiatives and what can be done about it.
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During the final meeting in a series of 6 which has brought together organisations and individuals from across Dorset to work through the subject of Food Resilience in Dorset, participants came together to discuss whether Dorset could develop into a Sustainable Food Place.
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An Informed discussion took place exchanging some great ideas for actions and strategies. We had three prominent speakers who came and shared their ideas and projects with attendees
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Organisers of DorsetCOP 2023 announce it will be held on Saturday 9th September at Dorchester Corn Exchange
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Dorset CANs Retrofit Event proved a huge success!
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Wind Farms in Dorset. What are the obstacles
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