About Greenhouse

GreenHouse: A Commonwealth Climate Challenge gives 12 housholds in each of 12 cities in 12 countries across the Commonwealth 12 months to reduce their environmental impact. As they take up the challenge, we're sharing their stories to inspire and inform people about environmental issues. This is a fun project with serious aims.

GreenHouse is in its development phase. We are currently seeking funding to enable us to launch this project in 2011. If you're interested in finding out more, contact greenhouse@thercs.org or call on +44 (0) 20 7766 9230.

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FAQs

Do you have any questions about GreenHouse? We've tried to answer as many queries as we can on our Frequently Asked Questions page. Find out more...

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Partners

Local partners in each of our 12 GreenHouse locations are crucial to the delivery of the project. Find out more...

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Energy Use

Monitoring how much energy our households use during Greenhouse and comparing it to how much they used the year before the project, is an important way of measuring behaviour change. It will also help us to choose our winners! Find our more

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Royal Commonwealth Society

GreenHouse: a Commonwealth Climate Challenge is a project from the Royal Commonwealth Society. To find out more about the RCS visit our website.

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