An eco-friendly British company, Combat Climate Change, is looking for inventors of cutting edge green gadgets that it can market online. The company already sells “an array of weird and wonderful energy-saving equipment on its website - ranging from water-powered alarm clocks to hand-wound MP3 players,” reports the Lincolnshire Echo newspaper.
The company was established earlier this year by energy consultants Stewart Grew and Lorna Campbell. Mr Grew (52), the managing director at Combat Climate Change, said new energy-efficient technologies were being developed all the time. “One that really impresses me at the moment is the Efergy Meter,” he said. “As a former corporate energy manager, I’m so impressed with it. If you put it in you kitchen and switch your kettle on, it will tell you you’re spending 27 pence an hour. It really makes you think.”
Combat Climate Change’s goal is to help people understand climate change and things they can do about it. The organization is more than an online store selling ec0-friendly products.
The founders have worked in the energy sector since the 1980s, and saw the need for the website as climate change become a more pressing public issue. On the website, Grew states,
As the issue became more publicly debated, more heated and often more baffling, we couldn’t help but see that for the man and woman in the street there was - and is - a terrific amount of confusion surrounding what it all means, what’s to be believed and what to do. We set up Combat Climate Change Ltd as a direct response to this - to offer a calm, reasonable and sensible path through all the different opinions, and to offer similarly sensible, practical, climate-friendly advice, products and services.
Combat Climate Change is independent and not allied to any political group, business or lobby. “We don’t have an axe to grind, nor are we in anyone’s pocket,” says Grew. The organization has “grown to involve a network of editors, commentators, analysts and environmental scientists,” and it is funded by its own commercial activities. Products sold on the site fall in to a number of categories, including Lighting, Power Savers, Computing, Portable Power, Around the Home, In the Office, Water, Torches, Entertainment, and Educational Toys. (Pictured: hand-cranked mp3 player.)
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