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I was lucky enough to spend yesterday afternoon with the Kariboe School in Heemskirk, just outside of Amsterdam. The school's Director, Henk Schweitzer, is one of the most inspirational people I've met recently so a blog seemed the least I could do...

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Stakeholder facilitation – or helping people have discussions and make decisions – is something we do a lot of at SE².  But like everything else, it’s easy to get stuck in a rut and trot out the same processes and ideas over and over again. We were recently given an opportunity to try something a little bit different at Hounslow Council as part of their Warm Homes Healthy People Conference and so we thought we’d share.

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NO to the conservatory tax! NO to ugly, bird-killing wind turbines! NO to outlandishly expensive renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency programmes and infrastructure upgrades! It’s easy to caricature those parts of the media who seem to object by reflex to any environmentally positive policy suggestion. But it’s important in this time of coalition to find ways of working together.

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Like a long-forgotten pop group from the 1990s, cold weather has decided to make a comeback. At SE², we’ve spent much of the past winter delivering training to frontline workers from local authorities, the NHS and the voluntary sector. We’ve talked about the health impacts of cold weather, ways to spot someone who might be at risk from the cold and some of the simple, proven solutions that are available. Here are some of the things that we have learned along the way:

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