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“To me it’s almost like magic”: The NE Seattle Tool Library opens for business

Published on February 18, 2013 by Rob Hopkins
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Susan Gregory (NE Seattle Tool Library), Pastor Lorraine Watson (North Seattle Friends Church), Signe Gilson (Cleanscapes), Dai Gorman (Lease Crutcher Lewis), Richard Conlin (Seattle City Council), and Tim Croll (Seattle Public Utilities) at the opening day for the Library.

Here is a wonderful story from Seattle.  I am indebted to Susan Gregory and Leo Brodie for their time in telling me about it.  In North Ravenna, NE Seattle, a rather exciting project has emerged from Sustainable NE Seattle, the local Transition initiative.  Inspired by a similar project in West Seattle, the NE Seattle Tool Library opened to the public last month, and already has over 1,100 tools available for local people to hire.  

Free tools to help communities become zero carbon

Published on May 15, 2012 by Laura Whitehead
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BioRegional has developed a new free tool and research to help local authorities, housing associations and community groups work out the best options for retrofitting buildings to produce low or zero carbon emissions. The resources are part of the major Zero Carbon Hackbridge project where this 2,400 home London suburb is working to retrofit all buildings to zero carbon by 2025.

The Energy retrofit tool for buildings allows users to model the outcomes of different energy retrofit strategies on building stock in an area. It can be used for projects of any size, from one building to a whole town or city. The tool shows costs, carbon savings, payback periods, value for money and remaining carbon emissions.  The project was funded by the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts Climate Change Collaboration.

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