Environment
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Environment
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One of REAP's objectives is to raise environmental awareness and promote action to enhance our shared environment. We aim to do this through the following actions:
REAP produces a monthly carbon neutral “Green Diary” to highlight environmental and sustainable development events in the Grampian area. It contains relevant local articles, a monthly what's on for the Grampian area as well as adverts and group contacts. Many of the articles are written by volunteers who also help to distribute the diary to centres throughout the North East of Scotland. For more details see the Green Diary website.
Carbon Footprinting REAP has been involved in supporting organisations to measure, reduce and offset their carbon footprints. As part of this work REAP has made The Green Diary a carbon neutral publication by measuring, reducing and finally offsetting the carbon needed to produce it. The offsetting was accomplished by local native tree planting and bog restoration with volunteers.
Green Office Audits As part of REAP's work promoting social accounting, we have been involved in integrating easy to use green office audits into the social auditing process. This ensures that the changes are integrated into the institution rather than imposed from outside.
REAP promotes the work of Transition Towns and is involved in supporting the work of Transition Town Keith. Transition Towns is an initiative to enable communities to find their own way through the transition process to a low carbon future which is essential due to the interrelated issues of Peak Oil and climate change. For more information see the Transition Towns website.
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