Phil Newcombe is a Project Manager who works with the Low Carbon Communities, Low Carbon Enterprise and Carbon Forum Teams.

Phil joined MEA in June 2008. Phil has worked in a project delivery role in a range of social enterprise, consultancy voluntary and public sector organisations.

Phil’s past work and learning has held a consistent human ecological flavour reflecting his lifelong concern with sustainable development.

Skills: Sustainable energy audits, project management, facilitation, development of learning resources, ecological construction.

Qualifications: BSc Hons; Planning Studies, Oxford Brookes University Diploma; Town Planning, Oxford Brookes UniversityAdvanced Craft City and Guilds; Carpentry and JoineryCity and Guilds 7307; Facilitating Adult LearningPost-graduate certificate; Psychodynamic Groupwork, Birmingham University Post-graduate certificate; Personnel Development and Training, Wolverhampton UniversityMsc Architecture; Advanced Energy and Environment Studies, Centre of Alternative Technology/University East London

Professional Interests: Working with community building managers to improve environmental sustainability and economic viability.Supporting communities to achieve environmental goals.Bringing values of Sustainability into applied situations. Maintaining hope and belief that people can do a better job at stewardship.

Where I've come from: Childhood in Teddington. Teens in Bristol. College in Oxford. Kids in Shrewsbury.

I like: My wonderful wife. Helping my children gradually becoming grown ups. Walking the dogs. Iyengar Yoga. Holidays en France

A moral I live my life by: Live simply so that others may simply live.

How I'm trying to live more sustainably:Holidays in Europe by train. I endeavour not to travel by plane (last time to Majorca in 2007)

I believe the greatest threat to our current society and environment is: Greed. Status anxiety and unthinking consumption.

My 'dirty secret': I often drive the dogs around the corner on my way to taking them for a walk!

It may surprise you to know but . . . it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown.