For something completely different to the seasonal madness, I hope you enjoy these pictures of 3 of us REAP employees with our Carbon Literacy Certificates. Myself, Barney and Dorothy attended this 2-day intensive course in November in Keith along with 18 other attendees from across the North East, run by the Climate Challenge Fund. The course focused on the realities of climate change, what is happening and why, and how we can take action to help reduce emissions.
All three of us learned a lot, from the trainers but also from our fellow attendees, who included High School 6th year pupils, managers and staff from a variety of Climate Challenge funded projects, energy advisors, recyclers and growers. To gain our certificates, we all pledged to carry out a personal carbon saving action and a community or workplace based one, too.
Our pledges are listed below. One of mine was to advertise what we have pledged as examples to hopefully inspire others – this could be you! So when you are making your New Year resolutions, why not get involved, find out more about climate change and devise your own pledge to go even more green in 2018
Our pledges are:
1.To cut out one journey in and out to work per week, either by electric biking in, or working at home
Carbon saving on 20 miles round trip in car x 45 weeks = 900 miles per year
2.To replace 2 meat-based meals with vegetarian meals to total 4 meals per week for the whole family, using only locally grown vegetables for those meals
Carbon saving on meat and supermarket sourced vegetables (food miles etc)
3.To save more seeds to use in REAP projects and propagate more plants using peat-free soil
Carbon saving on transport and production costs of seeds and saving peat bog habitat for carbon capture
4.To move house to a location where I can use my bike more, saving on local trips to and from town
Carbon saving on car travel 5 miles round trip 2 x per week = 520 miles per year
Best wishes for the New Year from us all at REAP
