Collecting stories of reducing or offseting carbon stories
I (Mitra Ardron) know that quite a few of us have done something about our carbon emissions, for example Zelfo is carbon-neutral plastic; Slingfings is using Solar-powered sewers; ReGenesis have installed a wind turbine; Natures Child and Fiberart have offset their emissions, and others are more directly involved e.g. Climate Friendly, North Coast Biofuels; Quality Solar and Apex Air.
As part of the collaboration between Byron Sustainable Ventures Network and North Coast Climate Action Group, I'm putting together some materials for distribution to encourage other businesses to reduce their carbon use, or offset what they can't reduce. A key part of that is showcasing what we are already doing, rather than preaching.
If any of you have done something about carbon can you let me know what you've done, if you give it to me as a sentence, and as a short paragraph then I probably won't have to edit it, otherwise I'll edit it to fit whatever I produce.
It would help me if you've got any numbers, for example how much carbon you've saved, or any other numbers I could use to get a handle on the magnitude of effect we are having. If you haven't got numbers that's ok.
Lets use ourselves as good examples to others.
If anyone wants to help in this collaboration let me know .... mitra @ mitra . biz
Read on for the collected stories....
(This is a work in progress, being edited as information comes in)
The key mantra is "Measure; Reduce and offset the remainder".
Below (Green Power) means that any remaining power requirements are sourced by Green Power.
Businesses Significantly reducing their requirement for non-renewable power.
ReGenesis Enterprises: Erected a wind turbine, to power the farm. (requested numbers, how much power -> how much carbon)
ReGenesis Soil Company: Run the truck that collects food waste from restaurants off of BioDiesel, use the food waste to make compost. (requested numbers, how much fuel -> how much carbon)
Zelfo Australia: Will (in a few weeks) be running their equipment off a vegetable oil powered diesel engine instead of 200kw of electricity. Heat provided by vegetable oil burners and will be solar panels soon. (will need numbers when operational). (Green Power)
Slingfings and Bird Textiles: Our climate impact from freight of raw materials, car and air travel of our staff, manufacture, operations and delivery, has been calculated so that we can green our carbon emissions. So far we've saved 70 tonnes of carbon. All our manufacturing is done using a combination of wind and solar power.
Businesses that, apart from normal efficiency measures, use Green Power for the rest
- Natures Child: 100% (how much total - confirm with Jannine)
- FiberArt: 100% (how much total - confirm with Melissa)
- Santos: 50% (how much total - confirm with John)
Posted by mitra at February 9, 2007 10:36 AM
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