Purpose of yet another Network

The name "Zero Carbon Network" has been chosen with some care. It reflects a commitment to the promotion and development of technologies that enable us to reduce our carbon footprint but equally it reflects a recognition that there are an increasingly large number of business, organizations and individuals who have made the decision that the future of human kind depends on our ability to reduce our carbon footprint.
As with any network then we bring together people and organizations with diverse interests and enable them to share the insights that they have about reducing carbon emissions.
You only have to look at the people who came together at our first meeting to see the way this diversity has helped us.
The idea for the network came through an online collaboration between Helen Caldicott http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/ and John Töns. Helen is a long standing campaigner against nuclear energy, John was looking for ways in which local government can be more responsive to the need to reduce carbon emissions. The next step was to contact people with a likely vested interest and hence Ekkehard GrossKreutz from Open Energy was approached http://openenergy.com.au/ he in turn approached a range of other people consumers, businesses people such as http://greenstreets-sue.com.au/and on line businesses http://ecovoice.com.au/ this group decided that it was worth their while to invest some time informalizinging the establishment of this network as an additional vehicle through which the dream of a zero carbon world could realized.