Reduce Carbon Emissions by 10% in 2010 at your University
Ten Steps Checklist PDF download here 1. Create your carbon reduction team. Identify and connect with a committed, passionate, and multifaceted team who will make it happen. Include academics, lecturers, staff, management, estates and students alike. There should be no rank, or distinction between these parties, but rather, each individual should be a stakeholder on a collective mission to succeed.
2. Set your first meeting. Agree at the meeting how you will establish the appropriate permissions, and carry out the carbon monitoring. Agree also on how often you will meet to feed back how you are getting on. Remember to aim for at least 10% reductions in carbon emission across each of the four categories: grid electric, on-site fossil fuel use, vehicle fuel use, and air travel. Create working groups for each of the energy categories. 3. Research methods for monitoring energy use at the university. Do not wait until you have the perfect method but start the process and work towards creating a more rigorous methodology as the project evolves. How will you establish systems to monitor all energy use? Electricity is the easiest area to monitor as it should be straightforward to check the meters.
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By EcoLabs, T4Sustainability and Inheritable Futures Laboratory
No good deal in Copenhagen was possible under the current circumstances so we should not be surprised by what has happened. Politicians are not prepared to make hard choices. Northern governments were not empowered to do the right thing and this is a convenient excuse for business as usual. The lack of will for change results from dismal efforts to communicate the urgency of the problems, compounded by attempts to solve climate change using the neo-liberal agenda of privatization of the commons, and reckless financial speculation similar to that which caused the financial crisis. While our 'leaders' are crippled by the system they exist within, people are creating processes and working towards solutions. Significant projects, alliances, and networks were formed in Copenhagen. The Klimaforum Declaration, the People's Assembly held outside the Bella centre, the increasing solidarity between civil society, environmental NGOs and people's movements are all major steps forward. Read more...
The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed
at Copenhagen. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart
of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current carbon trading proposals: free permits to
big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis.
The 2012 Imperative challenges institutions to use their resources, expertise and skills to respond to environmental imperatives and work towards embedding ecological literacy in design education by 2012. The Teach-in took place October 12 2009 at the V&A in London and was also broadcast live on-line. The lectures are now viewable on-line on the Teach-in website: www.teach-in.co.uk. A new on-line community is collaborating on this project: http://teach-in.ning.com.
EcoMag is a magazine about art, design & sustainability. Each issue will focus on a theme while investigating issues lying at the root of the ecological crisis. The theme of the first issue is ‘Future Scenarios’. We are indebted to the authors: Mark Lynas, David Holmgren and Herman Daly for granting us permission to borrow freely and providing inspiration for the artists and designers who turned this work into pictures. EcoMag No.1 is available as a low resolution Pdf download here, a higher quality pdf is now available here (15M). References and mail order please see here.
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