Carbon Connections, the low carbon investment body based at the University of East Anglia, is filming a documentary that traces the efforts of three year-in-industry students as they audit and hopefully reduce the carbon footprints of three Norwich companies.

Aimee, Jason and Alison are spending a year at Bayer Crop Science, GCS and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital respectively and are seeking to use the knowledge gained in their environmental sciences degree to advise how the companies could reduce their energy consumption and ultimately their energy bill.

A 2 minute trailer of the forthcoming movie is on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB3mofqIDR8) and has already become the 37^th most watched clip in the Non-profits and Activism section. The finished product will be available from the Carbon Connections team for organisations wishing to examine their carbon footprint and will provide empirical evidence and useful advice. Learning how to reduce energy consumption within organisations will become more and more important as energy prices continue to escalate alongside ever more warnings about the need to reduce carbon emissions.

Carbon Connections has invested in 27 projects in total, all of which seek to reduce carbon emissions on a knowledge transfer basis; that is the extraction of research knowledge embedded in universities into the commercial sphere. Other projects that Carbon Connections has funded include an endeavour to find the optimum biofuel blend to power domestic oil-fired heaters, the world's first free-standing tidal energy harnessing device and an affordable low energy housing development. There are several case studies available for download from the Carbon Connections website, http://www.carbon-connections.org.

Carbon Connections Marketing Manager Matt Dolan commented, "The Fly on the Wall documentary is an excellent tool for companies wishing to reduce their carbon footprint. It addresses both technical and behavioural issues and is very contemporary in that it shows how traditional industry is standing up to modern concerns."

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For further information on any of the above please contact: Matt Dolan, info@carbon-connections.org, 01603 591358