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Eco – Congregations “Saving Your 5% CO 2 ”

Eco – Congregations “Saving Your 5% CO 2 ”. 8 th September 2010 Dr Jonathan Kneeshaw Carbon Management M.Sc. Zero Waste Volunteer Coordinator Moffat CAN Community Powerdown Officer Langholm Initiative Dumfries Baptist Church Associate. Content. Background Targets Carbon Footprint

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Eco – Congregations “Saving Your 5% CO 2 ”

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  1. Eco – Congregations“Saving Your 5% CO2” 8th September 2010 Dr Jonathan Kneeshaw Carbon Management M.Sc. Zero Waste Volunteer Coordinator Moffat CAN Community Powerdown Officer Langholm Initiative Dumfries Baptist Church Associate

  2. Content • Background • Targets • Carbon Footprint • Simple Actions • Carbon Cutter Plans • Moffat CAN

  3. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ARTICLE 2:OBJECTIVE The ultimate objective of this Convention and any related legal instruments that the Conference of the Parties may adopt is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.

  4. e.g. Extreme Weather Events

  5. Change in precipitation 1961 to 2004 met office (2006)

  6. Carbon Emission Reduction Targets Scottish Government 42% by 2020 Scottish Government 80% by 2050 Church of Scotland 5% reduction year on year.

  7. Status

  8. Average Scottish Carbon Footprint 12.7 Tonnes CO2 per person per year

  9. A Quick Example

  10. Define the boundaries of your footprint A Quick Example 1 Footprint Assessment Boundary Within Churches Control Travel Purchased electricity Supply Chain Individuals Gas consumption Waste disposal

  11. A Quick Example 2 Collect the activity data • Gas Bills • Electricity Bills

  12. A Quick Example Natural Gas:The CO2 emission factor for natural gas from DEFRA is 0.185 kgCO2/kWh 3 Calculate emissions & total footprint activity data x emission factor = emission quantity

  13. Calculation Eco-congregations (2009) Other Emissions factors available from DEFRA (2010)

  14. Steps • Monitor your Energy Use • Work out the Carbon Footprint of Church Buildings • Make a commitment to reduce this total by 5% a year.

  15. Carbon Reduction Actions a Good Guide

  16. Heating

  17. Draughts & Insulation

  18. Lighting

  19. Appliances

  20. Transport

  21. Help • ESSac Energy Agency Bob Baillie 01292 525502 Free Energy Audits -Building Energy Reviews - annual utility bills under £5,000 - annual utility bills £5,000 - £30,000 - annual utility bills over £30,000 • Communities And Renewable Energy Scheme CARES http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Business-Industry/Energy/Energy-sources/19185/Communities/CRES • Energy Saving Trust 0800 512 012, www.energysavingtrust.org.uk

  22. My Carbon Footprint • Everybody is different. • There are easy to use tools available online • e.g. ACT on CO2website http://actonco2.direct.gov.uk/actonco2/home.html

  23. Carbon Cutter Plans • What? – Regular Carbon reductions step by step. • Who? - Group, team, organisation. • Where? – e.g. Regular meeting. • When? – e.g. Coffee break during the meeting. • How? • Appoint a Carbon Champion to coordinate • Select an action from the list and fill out table. • Do actions. • Check who did it at next mtg. • Complete table. • Select next action and repeat process. • Keep a running total of Carbon savings.

  24. Carbon Cutter Plan

  25. Moffat CAN • Energy Surveys • Grow Allot • (Greatly Reduce/Re-use/Recycle Our Waste and Lead Local Organic Trade) • Recycling • Food • Composting www.moffatcan.org

  26. January 2010. The new Garden Site – lots of work ahead

  27. January 2010. The new Garden Site looking from the river to the northeast

  28. February 2010. Panic: Despite promises that we would own the place by early January, the council still haven’t sent any documents

  29. March 2010. Still no progress - we plough ahead anyway

  30. March 2010. Disaster! The Council now orders us to have a full contaminated land survey done – a month long process – despite the fact that the allotment land has only ever been used for hanging washing on as the town’s Drying Green. And the growing season’s started! And we still don’t own the land!!

  31. We have to get off the land just as the growing season is getting under way, will the project ever get off the ground? The Council contact us to start conveyancing procedures the day after a front page article in the local paper – meantime our team has to spend its time doing odd jobs around the place.

  32. May 2010. success at last! We get our permissions and it’s all systems go to get ready for allotment holders.

  33. Raised beds are constructed for those who have difficulty kneeling or bending. The raised bed allows you to sit down to garden – perfect for those who use wheelchairs! Filled with compost and good quality top soil and sprinkled with Scottish rock dust, they allow for a very high quality and yield from the area.

  34. We lay a path using waste building materials from around the site. Some 15 tonnes of hedge trimmings are laid around the site, saving them from landfill, looking attractive, and smelling heavenly of pine.

  35. May 21st. It’s Opening Evening, and allotment-holders are invited in. From 8 months old to 80 years, a new community forms as we dig the soil, drink the wine and chew the fat together. The Land is Ours!

  36. Allotment holders work from 7.30am the next morning, and all weekend, to catch up with the season.

  37. June 2010. Just 2 weeks after opening and our Allotment holders have done us proud and worked ever so hard to get plants into the ground and growing. We are all thrilled to see such activity and this is what we’ve all been working at for so long. Well done everybody!

  38. July 2010

  39. July 2010

  40. July 2010

  41. August 2010 PV on the roof

  42. View from the roof

  43. Moffat CAN Master Composter Project First project in South West Scotland. 10 to 15 volunteers trained as Master Composters. Promote home composting. Reduce waste going to landfill. Produce good quality compost for growing local produce.

  44. References • DEFRA (2010) http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/business/reporting/conversion-factors.htm • Eco Congregation (2009) module 13, Climate Change Managing Your Carbon Footprint http://www.ecocongregation.org/scotland/module13.html • IPCC (2007) AR4 • Met Office (2006) An online handbook of climate trends across Scotland. http://climatetrendshandbook.sccip.org.uk/Chapter02/2_01.html • Moffat CAN http://moffatcan.org/ • Straine G. and Oxley N. “For Creed and Creation. (2007) A Simple guidebook for running a greener church” http://www.cofe.anglican.org/links/forcreedandcreation280207.pdf

  45. Questions?

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