Climate Action Fund

April 2024: CFG tap into funding for local farm & fishery for ecosystem restoration project.

Pushing Modular Construction Boundaries

June 2024: RIBA 4, Net Zero farm house collaboration with Hemspan.

Energy Innovation on retro-fit project

April 2023: Proof of concept attempting Passiv house status on C14th farmhouse.

Greenhouse upgrade

April 2022: Analysis of future trends & options for re-purposing large scale greenhouses.

Net Zero Design in Suffolk

Dec 2022: CFG engaged to help plan Paragraph 80 projects in Suffolk.

Energy and Innovation

Ongoing : Inter-seasonal storage solutions for Paragraph 80 and 134 projects.

Net Zero Housing Project

Nov 2023: Systems integration for carbon net zero.

Energy and Ecology Innovation

Nov 2023: CFG joins multi-disciplinary team designing a P84 dwelling & equestrian area.

New Zero-Carbon Service Station

July 2023: CFG collaborating on Zero-Carbon design of Stannington Services, A1

Sustainable Energy Solutions

June 2023: CFG is proud to work on Neven Sidor’s RIBA award winning ‘Ponds Rough’

New Team Member

May 2023: We're excited to welcome Prue to the team to manage business operations

Tom Mansfield
Cultural Advisor

Tom is working with the Carbon Free Group to evolve the structure of its community and the effectiveness of its messaging to encourage behavioural change. Inspired by the proposition that our current systems are no longer fit for purpose, Tom seeks to find and create new approaches, better systems and recalibrated values to transform how people and society conduct civilisation to deliver more equitable and self-fertilising outcomes.

His multi-skilled experience offers a unique perspective on our built environment and how to organise and deploy the change required for its projects, products, processes and policies. This distinctive vantage point uncovers many unique opportunities bridging industry, academia, finance, management and the arts to effect individual and community behavioural change.

Tom has an 8-year track record in producing and hosting innovative public discussion forums convening thought leaders from across sectors and showcasing these discourses to new audiences. He founded the Secret Garden Party and Wilderness Festival Forums, as well as many stand-alone discussion series in response to current affairs.

In 2011, together with Mark Stevenson, he co-founded LOPO - The League of Pragmatic Optimists - a principle-led international platform and cultural change initiative for augmenting projects to 'make the world a better place'.

Tom also works as freelance construction project manager and has been trialling more coherent ecological building methods for a decade. His creative practice focuses on the confluence of technology, humanities and ecology, weaving these into synergies that can deliver systemic change.

Position:
Cultural Advisor