think you can't cut your carbon emissions? thimk again! cutting carbon together
think you can't cut your carbon emissions? - thimk again! cutting carbon together

about thimkagain!

Milton Keynes Local Strategic Partnership has agreed an ambitious goal to promote local action to help tackle climate change and set up the Climate Change Liaison Group (CCLG) to do this. Following Milton Keynes Council's decision to provide start-up funding, an initial programme of action has been developed by the National Energy Foundation in consultation with the main strategic partners.

About the project

There are already many innovative initiatives already taking place across the city. New and existing project activities will be set out in a detailed route map showing what is proposed for Milton Keynes in the different sectors. ThimkAgain! is a first step on this routemap to carbon reduction, and is designed to help engage you in the process. The success of this project will be through the realisation of real carbon savings through implementation of different projects and services that all work together. Our project partners are also key to the success of this initiative.

The ThimkAgain! website is intended to become a virtual meeting place where you can find out about all local initiatives that could help you reduce your emissions, combat climate change, and save money as well. So that's why it focuses on what's happening in Milton Keynes - both in past, the present and what might happen in the future. But that means the website doesn't say all that much about the global effects of Climate Change, or what you can do yourself at home, while travelling or at work to reduce your own carbon emissions. So if you'd like to help the ThimkAgain! campaign by writing some more web content, or publicising a climate change project that you have been doing in the city, then we'd love to hear from you. Just send an e-mail to our webmaster.

We will value your feedback on your thoughts about this project and any ideas that you may have to make it easier for Milton Keynes' citizens to take action against climate change.

The partners



Milton Keynes Local Strategic Partnership and
the Climate Change Liaison Group

The Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) is a high level partnership bringing together a wide range of public, private, voluntary and community interests. Its aim is to promote the sustainable, social, economic and environmental well being of the people of Milton Keynes. Meetings of the Local Strategic partnership are held on a quarterly basis and are open to the public.

The LSP set up the Climate Change Liaison Group (CCLG) to promote local action to help tackle climate change.The CCLG has regularly met since its inception in early 2007. Its membership comprises the key organisations within the public, business and voluntary sector. During that time it has been developing its knowledge of the climate change issues for Milton Keynes.

The CLCG are involved in a number of key initiatives around Milton Keynes and are currently developing a Carbon Reduction Programme for Milton Keynes. The ThimkAgain! campaign is part of this process.



The National Energy Foundation

The National Energy Foundation (NEF) empowers individuals and organisations to take action to reduce their carbon emissions through energy efficiency and use of sustainable energy sources to counter climate change. The Foundation is a registered charity and was set up in Milton Keynes in 1990 to encourage the more efficient use of energy and sustainable energy sources. Its initial work took some of the ideas created in Milton Keynes forward onto a national stage. Its work is carried out through the following activities:

  • Offering Information, Advice and more Technical Support through its websites and consultancy team;
  • Providing Infrastructure support, especially in the areas of Energy Certification and Standards, for example though its work in support of the Carbon Tust Standard, the Solar Trade Association;
  • Working in Education, including its Green Energy Machine shown here;
  • Undertaking Projects in collaboration with other organisations at a local, regional and European level.

NEF is responsible for most of the content of the ThimkAgain! website, and produced the Route Map for the Carbon Reduction Programme.



United Sustainable Energy Agency

USEA, which was formerly known as Milton Keynes Energy Agency, was established by Milton Keynes Council and the National Energy Foundation in 1998, with support form the Energy Agencies programme of the European Union. It operates on a regional basis, and its key projects include operating the Energy Saving Trust Advice Centre for the Thames Valley and Solent, which is based in Milton Keynes, and the Cocoon project designed to help consumers find the best suppliers for energy saving measures. USEA also works in the areas of fuel poverty and with small businesses.



City Discovery Centre

City Discovery Centre informs and educates visitors about urban geography and new city planning.

City Discovery Centre Ltd was set up in July 1987 as a charitable company limited by guarantee. In pursuit of its charitable objectives, CDC undertakes activities in four main areas:

  1. educational programmes and activities to support all levels of learning in urban studies and the sustainable city;
  2. educational programmes and activities to support learning in heritage studies;
  3. maintenance of an archive and image library which deals the with the development of Milton Keynes;
  4. in collaboration with the Milton Keynes Council (the site owners) it manages and maintains the Bradwell Abbey site for the benefit of the Milton Keynes community (this function includes providing meeting and administrative space for community groups).



thecentre:mk

thecentre:mk's vision is simply to provide the best shopping and leisure experience in the UK. We aim to make shopping hassle-free for our customers and offer a complete day out - with shopping, leisure, entertainment and family facilities all under one roof.

A stimulating, bustling regional shopping district situated in the heart of Milton Keynes, providing an exciting, dynamic and vibrant mix or retail, eating and civic spaces that link shopping to the rest of the city centre.



Graymatter

Graymatter provides design, internet and marketing services, and was responsible for the naming of the campaign and the design of the ThimkAgain! website. Graymatter is around 30 people strong. All of us are hugely passionate about what we do. Some of us have been doing it for a long time and some of us are just starting out. It's that great combination of experience, enthusiasm and client knowledge that leads to brilliant new ideas backed by solid thinking.



and you...?

We're keen to add extra partners to help contribute to the success of the project and make a real contribution towards Milton Keynes cutting carbon together. If you would like to know more about what this might entail, then please check out our New Partners page.

climate change
and you

This section looks at how our everyday choices that you can take to help combat climate change. It offers suggestions on how to save energy at home, at work and while travelling around. And not only will you be helping save energy and the planet, you'll be saving money too!

climate change
and MK

Milton Keynes has been thinking differently about the use of energy for 40 years. This section shows some of its current initiatives, its plans for the future, and its past successes, such as the famous Energy World exhibition.

climate change
and the world

This looks briefly at what might happen if emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, continue unchecked. There could be rising sea levels, more severe storms, crop failures around the world, mass migrations of populations away from coastal areas and the largest loss of wildlife ever seen. And that's just by the end of the current century...

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  • Partners

    The ThimkAgain! campaign is a project created by the Milton Keynes Local Strategic Partnership with initial funding from Milton Keynes Council with support from the centre:mk, City Discovery Centre, Milton Keynes Partnership, National Energy Foundation, United Sustainable Energy Agency and Graymatter. We are always looking for new partners who can offer financial help, in-kind support or just their own enthusiasm for making Milton Keynes a more sustainable and lower carbon city.
    Information about how to become a partner

    National Energy Foundation United Sustainable Energy Agency the centre MK
    Milton Keynes Council City Discovery Centre
    graymatter design and marketing
     
Call 01908 354538, and become a partner

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If you'd like to tell us about what you think MK should be doing to combat climate change, then visit our feedback page.

Terms and Conditions

This site is designed to explain that doing nothing is not an option. So as part of your use of the site, we expect you to take some action such as contributing to the campaign, or reducing your energy use at home or at work to cut your carbon emissions. Oh, and if you expected this footnote to tell you about all the boring legal bits, like who owns the images, how many rain forests were chopped down at the design stage and whether we are capturing your personal data, then you'll have to follow the link to our legal bits'n'bobs page.