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Community-based energy projects
Community-based energy projects As a consumer organisation, our historic roots are in local groups of consumers and citizens coming together to improve things for people of that particular locality (and beyond). So, the projects described below are of great interest – not just for the fact that they are local, but also because this is …
Consumer Charter for Regulators
NCF Grassroots Group Guide
In memory of Maurice Healy
MEMORIES OF MAURICE HEALY The news of Maurice Healy’s death has saddened many – not just because of the qualities of the human being that was Maurice but because with his passing the ranks of the first movers of what we were proud to call the consumer movement grow ever thinner. Jeremy Mitchell has written …
Seize the Day – A time to train for Net Zero Homes
Pete Eisenegger writes: It’s a pandemic. Consumers are being cautious. People are losing jobs. Meanwhile Global Warming continues and the need to adjust and bring our carbon footprints down becomes ever more pressing. As is the need for energy efficient homes. Building new modern homes to the standard needed is easy compared to upgrading the …
NCF Briefing paper UK USA Trade Talks Standards issues
Are you a COVID-19 duck?
There is a test for Covid-19 according to the BBC Radio 4 programme More or Less and it is based on the old saying … If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck and looks like a duck … it’s probably a duck. What the radio programme delved into was the accuracy of the tests …
Letter to International Trade Minister on UK US Trade Talks
Brexit – Keep our safety legislation
Community-based energy projects As a consumer organisation, our historic roots are in local groups of consumers and citizens coming together to improve things for people of that particular locality (and beyond). So, the projects described below are of great interest – not just for the fact that they are local, but also because this is …