The following companies and organisations will be at this year’s event to provide you with information about how you can save money and the environment. Please click on a company’s name for more information about them.
If you or your company wants to exhibit, please contact us and we’ll try our best to fit you in!
- Amazing Electric Bike
Nick Rouse made this bike to demonstrate how much energy a human being can produce by pedaling. Get on the bike and find out if you could power an old-fashioned incandescent lightbulb. - Aquarius Solar
Aquarius solar heating supply and install solar water heating systems allowing you to generate your own solar power and solar energy. Solar water heating systems can be used for domestic water heating as well as larger scale applications for business and the community, including swimming pools. Not only will our systems reduce your energy bills by up to 70 % they will also reduce your impact on the environment.
Visit Website - Bike Train
The Bike Train takes a ‘safety-in-numbers’ approach to cycling. Creating a fun, visible and more protected environment within a mass-ride, it hopes to make it easier for more people to commute by bike along the Lewes Road – reducing traffic-related air pollution and CO2 emissions in the process!
Visit Website - Bright Green Homes
Bright Green Homes specialises in the design and implementation of eco-refurbishments in homes and small business properties. Our in-house architect can design you a solution for your home renovation with environmentally friendly design right from the outset. We can also help with the integration of all green technologies and materials, from renewable energy, to water saving, from organic paint to insulation and help you to project manage the builders, installers, permissions, and grants that you may need to realise your perfect eco-refurbishment.
Visit Website - Brighton & Hove City Council
The council is made up of directorates each with specific functions and responsibilities. Reflecting the top city priorities as they have emerged from consultation with residents, business and our elected members, the environment directorate is charged with developing our sustainability and quality of life agendas including use of our open spaces and the city’s transport strategy.
Visit Website - Brighton & Hove Eco Energy
Brighton & Hove Eco Energy is a group of volunteers aiming to start a city-wide community response to the challenges of climate change and peak oil. We want to bring together the collective skills and creativity in Brighton & Hove to evolve a sustainable low energy future reflected in an Energy Descent Action Plan. - Brighton Energy Cooperative
Brighton Energy Co-op is an opportunity to get involved with the first solar co-operative in the UK. Our first project is to raise £350,000 to install a 100kw solar system in Brighton and Hove. Covering an area of 700 square metres, the panels will generate some £1.65m. The money will be raised by selling shares in the co-op; profit will then be split between co-op members and investment in new low-carbon projects.
Visit Website - Brighton Peace & Environment Centre
Brighton Peace & Environment Centre (BPEC) is an educational charity which inspires action through learning about the world. We encourage people to explore the links between their own lives and with people, places and issues throughout the world. We host a teachers’ resource centre and provide training and support for teachers to bring the world into the classroom through curriculum related subjects. We provide the public with information about local and global concerns, supporting choices which prioritise peace, people and planet, throughout daily life.
Visit Website - Charlie Hooker
Since the mid-1970’s, Hooker has consistently produced work which traverses recognised categories within art and interdisciplinary research. These often concern aspects of meteorology and astronomy and combine mechanical and electrical power with natural elements such as wind, water and sunshine to generate audible and visual movement within sculptures.
Visit Website - Cocoon Property
Cocoon Property was established by Dominic Arnold in 2002 in Brighton, following a successful career as a property developer, where he worked both as project and site manager. It is this wealth of experience that Dominic calls upon when working on his clients’ property, and it gives him an innate understanding of what they want to achieve. March 2011 saw Cocoon exhibiting our latest heat recovery products at the Chartered Institute of Housing Conference at Brighton where Green MP Caroline Lucas gave a talk on ‘Greening your Business’ and Oliver Kamm gently reminded us all, very eloquently, that house prices are going to fall by 30% this year. We support both their stances on energy saving and are proud to be associated with the CIH.
Visit Website - Eco Technology Show
The Eco Technology Show is being held on Friday the 15th and Saturday the 16th of June 2012 at the brand new Amex Stadium in Brighton. Our aim is to showcase all the new technologies and encourage as many people as possible to commit to using renewable energy and making energy savings throughout their lives. - Ecotecture
Ecotecture has been making its name in award-winning ecological building since 1992. It designs innovative and sustainable buildings in all sections of the built environment – from domestic extensions to larger, energy efficient commercial and community projects.
Visit Website - Efficient Refurbs
Efficient Refurbs helps property owners in Brighton & Hove identify and finance green refurbishment measures that will reduce energy costs and increase property values.
Visit Website - EVRS
EVRS has developed a new approach to waste recycling. The EVRS approach combines a well understood hydrolysis process with proprietary additives and catalysts to rapidly convert all organic matter into pure cellulose. The outputs from this process can either be utilised as a basis for products such as construction boards or converted to ethanol. Most importantly, the process leaves nothing to landfill and being hermetically sealed, emits no discharges.
Visit Website - Greenpeace
Greenpeace are passionate about protecting the Earth – the only life support system we have. We are independent. That means we can tackle power, not problems. We do this by investigating, documenting and exposing the causes of environmental destruction. We work to bring about change through political lobbying, citizen action and consumer pressure. And we will take peaceful direct action to protect this fragile planet and promote the solutions for a green and peaceful future.
Visit Website - Joju Solar
Joju Solar have been leading the way in domestic and commercial solar PV projects since 2006. Not only do we design and install your system, we advise all our customers on how to get the most out of producing their own electricity.
Visit Website - Lookers
Lookers is one of the UK’s leading motor retail and distribution groups. They will be exhibiting two smart cars at the eco energy fair. smart has, from its very conception, been committed to making its vehicles and production methods as environmentally-friendly as possible. The new fortwo cdi boasts some of the lowest CO2 emissions on the market, as well as incredible fuel economy at 85.6mpg. And with technologies such as micro-hybrid drive and the forthcoming electrically powered smart electric drive, the future for smart is looking even greener.
Visit Website - Nigel’s Eco Store
Nigel set up Nigel’s Eco Store in 2005, because he wanted to do something positive, and make a difference. There’s a few more of us now, but the main thing is that we all continue to be inspired by eco friendly products and ideas that solve environmental challenges, and yet are still fun, functional and desirable. In our searches for new eco products to add to our range, we love things that use less energy, re-use materials, don’t pollute, or that are natural and organic, and compared to non-eco alternatives, do the same job, and look and feel just as great – or better!
Visit Website - OVESCo
OVESCo is an IPS and is not for profit, using all its resources as well as voluntary help to work towards a sustainable low carbon future. Our aim is to help the people in the Lewes District area and East Sussex find ways to cope with climate change and the rising cost of fossil fuels such as gas and oil.
Visit Website - Renewable World
Renewable World, which was formally known as the Koru Foundation, is a UK based charity set up by individuals from the renewable industry in 2007 to act as the link between the European renewable energy sector and energy poor communities who are most vulnerable to climate change.
Visit Website - Renewables Infrastructure Group
The Renewables Infrastructure Group develops renewable solutions for Brighton & Hove on behalf of Hove Civic Society. - Southdowns Solar
At South Downs Solar we will help you to choose the right Solar Photovoltaic (PV) panels that will allow you to generate your own electricity and to profit from the Feed-in Tariff. We are an independent business and so are not tied to any particular manufacturer. This allows us to give you fair, unbiased advice. We are members of REAL and abide by their code of conduct when helping our customers to give you a very pleasant purchasing and installation experience.
Visit Website - The House that Kevin Built
Duncan Baker-Brown of Baker-Brown McKay built an eco-house in six days as part of Channel 4′s programme ‘Grand Designs Live’. THTKB was an innovative project to design and construct live on television a highly sustainable domestic property using a combination of ‘offsite’ innovative and prefabricated building systems and materials. The resulting house is thought to be the first building in the UK to achieve an A+ energy performance certificate. - VO4HOME
VO4HOME is a voltage optimisation device designed for use in homes and small businesses. The VO4HOME system gives immediate energy savings for the whole home.
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