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Carbon Reduction

This is obviously the overall aim of a lot of the areas Green Triangle works in. This page gives you some pointers to understanding how it all fits together by giving you sources of Information & Books you can borrow. There's also information on other groups which individual GT members are involved in such as Carbon Reduction & Climate Action Groups and Carbon Trading.

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There will be a meeting at Izzy's house on 2nd October to discuss setting up a Green Triangle CRAG (see below for more information about CARG's - Carbon Reduction Action Groups)

Information & Books

Yvonne has been providing consultancy for various live/ work, homelessness and carbon reduction programmes, in particular the Nesta Big Green Challenge Award for Community Carbon Reduction Schemes. In the course of this work, she has gained access to and information about numerous sources of advice and funding for green initiatives which she is happy to share. Contact yvonne@ambel.co.uk
Kev and Rob have various books & magazines available to loan: Heat by George Monbiot, Green consumer guide by Julia Hailes, How to live off-grid by Nick Rosen, Scenes from a smallholding by Chas Griffin. Contact KevWalters or Rob. Also available to loan is Go M.A.D: Go Make a Difference 2 (500 daily ways to save the planet) Ed. Jo Bourne and Emma Jones from Gilly.
There's a copy of Leonardo DiCaprio's 11th Hour in circulation. Contact Gilly, and I'll see if I can locate it for you. Also see Yvonne's review of the 11th Hour in the thread below.
Green Search Engine: This tech-stuff blog by Phil Bradley reports on a Green Search Engine called 'Green Maven'. Phil reports: "The Green Maven is your gateway to the Green Web. They're a search engine that focuses on green, conscious, and sustainable websites. It works well if what you want is in that subject area - if you do rather more general searches the results start to get a little bit flaky." See: http://www.greenmaven.com/ (From http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2008/04/green-maven---t.html 11th April 2008)
Care4Air TV can be accessed at care4air.org and the service was officially opened by Sheffield city councillor Ray Satur with campaign spokesman Mark Daly. The group works to improve air quality throughout the area, but is also now giving advice on how people can reduce their carbon footprints. Care4Air is highlighting through its website and TV service small changes that can be made every day to help the environment. http://www.care4air.org/ [From The Star]

Carbon Reduction & Climate Action Groups

Heather is involved in Sheffield Climate Action Groups (SCAG). For more details, contact Heather (Heather also has a smart meter she is willing to lend out).
Also see the Climate Outreach Information Network (COIN) who run the Climate Change Condensed seminar programme, and read about Carbon Reduction Action Groups (CRAGs).
Sheffield Campaign against Climate Change (SCACC) have an e-newsletter that brings you a regular update on climate action in Sheffield and how to get involved. It is distributed through their mailing list or you can see it on their website: You can re-subscribe at any time by sending an email to: scacc-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
Western Park Museum’s report “Whatever the weather-changing climate, changing cultures, Is Sheffield’s weather changing and what do Sheffield people want to do about it?” It includes Heather’s and Jenny Patient’s research.

Carbon Trading

Rob is involved in the Omega Climate Change Course (also part of SCAG), who are running a pilot carbon trading scheme to identify problems with such schemes. Contact Rob

For ideas on how to reduce your carbon footprint in individual areas of our lives, see the other pages on this wiki on Food; Transport; Houses; Consumer Goods; and the Local Area

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KevWalters

coal, carbon capture and storage

Nov 10 2008, 11:45 AM EST by Lollorosso

Thread started: Oct 7 2008, 5:26 AM EDT Watch

Several people have questions about coal and carbon capture and storage (CCS) so would be good to have a discussion on these issues. Oxfam has just released a 44 page report entitled "The forecast for tomorrow: the UK's climate for change". Here is a relevant paragraph from it. It pretty much summarizes how I feel.

"In the meantime, with no timetable for fitting power
stations with CCS, and no commercial reason to do so, BERR
is on the cusp of approving a new unabated coal-fired plant at
Kingsnorth in Kent (see E.ON section). If approved,
Kingsnorth will open the way for at least five other coal
plants that could threaten the UK’s emissions-reduction
obligations and undermine the UK’s political leadership on
climate change. The government’s former Chief Scientific
Adviser, Sir David King, has warned, ‘If we can manage [CCS]
then of course we can continue to use coal to drive our
economies, but frankly I haven’t seen the proof that can be done. This is still unproven technology, and I think until it’s
proven, it’s dangerous to assume that we can continue to use
coal.'"

The full document is available from

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/climate_change/downloads/forecast_for_tomorrow.pdf

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Apple_Gilly

Review of Leonardo's 11th Hour

Jul 5 2008, 9:54 AM EDT by Apple_Gilly

Thread started: Jul 5 2008, 9:54 AM EDT Watch

Leonardo DiCaprio's 11th Hour ( www.11thhourfilm.com ). A friend went to see a screening of this film last week and recommended it... Impactful images and a formidable army of experts from a variety of disciplines and organisations discuss their take on the challenge of climate change. Leonardo asks us if we're going to allow this to be our darkest hour or choose it to be our finest moment. Good question. What's your answer? What inspired him most were the solutions put forward. As well as the top ten of switching off lights and cycling to work, we had the likes of William McDonagh, Time Magazine's 'Hero for the Planet'. William is an architect and designer and he comments: 'If we think about the tree as a design, it's something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distils water, provides a habitat for hundreds of species, accrues solar energy, makes complex sugars and food, creates micro-climates, self-replicates. So, what would it be like to design a building like a tree? What would it be like to design a city like a forest? So, what would a building be like if it were photosynthetic? What if it took solar energy and converted it to productive and delightful use?' www.mcdonagh.com The idea of looking deeply at nature, recognising we're not remotely separate from it, and learning how to change our world in alignment with it, is an extraordinarily inspiring vision for the future. It makes this the most amazing time to be alive. It means we can develop and evolve to reverse what damage we've generated. We have the choice to become a more inclusive breed and sustain humanity or not. "I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." Arthur Rubinstein (GT Emails 15/01/08)