Carbon Footprint
The Scottish Government have recently set itself a target in the Scottish Climate Change Bill, of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% of 1900 levels by 2050. ECBA have launched the
Carbon Weight Watchers programme, to help households to find practical ways to reduce their carbon footprint and to install facilities that help them to make these changes.
During 2009, Carbon Weight Watchers will be an action research project focused at three pilot sites across Edinburgh. We intend to roll out the programme to twelve Community Backgreen Groups in 2010.
Carbon Weight Watcher WorkshopsOur Climate Officer is working with the Community Backgreen Groups at the pilot sites to deliver three workshops, focussed on the major carbon emitters and targeted specifically at tenement residents. They aim to inform, engage and encourage participants to live more sustainably and to carryout specific changes that reduce their carbon footprint. The three workshops focus on:-
- Local Food: Growing Your Own, buying local fruit and veg, and composting;
- Local Transport: Encouraging the use of bicycles by installing bike stores, and raising awareness about bike maintenance and low cost bikes;
- Increasing energy efficiency in homes and tenement stairs.
For more information about the workshops see
here.
Images from recent Carbon Weight Watcher Workshops