LATEST EVENTS

Green Growth Accelerator Summer 2019 Programme

Join us for our Summer 2019 series of Green Growth Accelerator workshops to help SMEs thrive in the growing low carbon economy. The programme is available to our Business Club members as a series of free half-day sessions. WHATS ON OFFER? Part 1 –...

Sustainability Summit 2019: Why clean growth is good for business (06-03-2019)

Date: 6th March 2019, 8.30am - 1.30pm Location: Eastwood Hall NG16 3SS Delivered in partnership by the East Midlands Chamber and the Low Carbon Business Network. The 2019 Summit will build on the successful 2018 event and will focus on how environmental sustainability...

Drawdown research into the solutions to global warming: Does this change everything?

In February 2018 Paul Hawken and an international coalition of more than 200 leading researchers, scientists and policymakers published Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming (Hawken, 2018). Drawdown shows that switching to...

Vehicle To Grid Workshop – 06/02/2019

Vehicle To Grid Workshop From concept to commercialisation 9.00 am - 4.00 pm, Wednesday 6th February, 2019 Trent Vineyard Conference Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2PX The smart integration of electric vehicles into the grid has the potential to radically change the energy...

The Low Carbon Business Network turns 2

The Low Carbon Business Network is celebrating two years of supporting businesses becoming greener. The University of Derby is extremely proud of its business-facing projects. The Low Carbon Business Network (LCBN) connects businesses that are proactively putting...

Network Members: Scenariio

Prestigious award for building with human-centric smart lighting The first human-centric smartLighting (HCsL) system has been key to the headquarters of Gymshark being recognised at the prestigious UK Property Awards. Derbyshire firm Scenariio, which...

Network Members: T4Sustainability

T4Sustainability is a small, director-owned firm based in Derbyshire, which developed from a voluntary sector organisation, to become established as a ‘not-only-for-profit’ enterprise in 2002. The firm specialises in design and installation of renewable energy...

LED lighting improves Derbyshire factory productivity

Recent studies have shown that more than improving efficiency, LED industrial lighting improves employee alertness and their general sense of well-being. LED lighting with certain spectral characteristics will reduce melatonin production that can cause...

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PREVIOUS EVENTS

Christmas Networking & Mince Pies (13-12-2018)

Join us at the Low Carbon Business Network's quarterly catch-up with its network members. Date & Time: Thursday 13 December 2018, 3.30pm until 5pm Location: Mickleover Court Hotel, Etwall Road, Derby DE3 0XX An opportunity to meet new business contacts and chat with...

‘Going Green’ Business Market Place (17-01-2019)

“Helping businesses to prepare themselves for and profit from a cleaner, greener and more sustainable future.” This event offers the opportunity to meet with forward-thinking businesses who are reducing costs and attracting new customers by going green....

Network for Entrepreneurs

Flint Bishop, in partnership with the University of Derby, proudly present the Network of Entrepreneurs This hugely popular and much-anticipated event is being run in conjunction with Global Entrepreneurship Week. Each November, GEW inspires millions of entrepreneurs...