Environment Sustainability Renewable Technologies
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Chapter 1: Getting Started
The Eden Project’s Online Eco Tools include “Show me the Carbon“
What’s your carbon footprint? See how your everyday choices, from the food you buy to the clothes you wear, from your choice of holiday to sending a text affect your personal carbon footprint – and find out how you can make a difference.
Chapter 2: Spend less on energy
Energy Saving Trust Independent and impartial advice about how to save energy and money.
Blewbury Energy Initiative’s website is an excellent source of information, including:
Lighting Choices - suggestions of the best low energy lights for different places in your home. (at the bottom of the BEI web page there is a list of on line suppliers, who often stock a greater variety of bulbs than shops)
Costs Benefits estimates the savings for different actions to reduce the amount of energy your family uses.
Saving Energy at Home: advice on effective energy saving in the home.
The Eden Project’s Online Eco Tools include their water, energy and carbon calculator Take a tour through their virtual home to discover how much you could save!
Chapter 3: Spend less on Water
Thames Water – Free water saving devices: shower heads, shower timers, hippos etc., all you need to know about water meters and lots more ……….
Blewbury’s Water - where does our water come from? Why is it hard? Should we worry about water shortages?
GiveMeTap is making clean water easily accessible to every human in the world by creating a network of cafes and shops where you can use your stainless steel GiveMeTap Bottle to get free tap water refills. We are improving the convenience of getting tap water and use 70% of profits to help others in need by funding water projects in Africa.
Waterwise’s Save Water page has lots of ideas about how you can save water.
The Eden Project’s Online Eco Tools include their water, energy and carbon calculator Take a tour through their virtual home to discover how much you could save!
How Much H2O is Embedded in Everyday Life – National Geographic’s infograms show how much water is needed to produce 1 kg of beef (more than 13000 litres!) but 1 kg of chicken only needs 3500 litres. Your choices can really make a difference.
Chapter 4: Spend Less, eat well 
Want to know more about permaculture?
Sustainable Blewbury’s produce stall
Locally produced food and drink
Oxford Bread Group – supplies ‘artisan’-style bread baked from locally grown grain to its members.
Cultivate: “Cultivate is a not-for-profit social enterprise that will bring fresh, local, organically-grown food direct from farmers to the city and surrounding communities. Their five-acre market garden and other small farms nearby will provide the produce sold in the VegVan,their mobile greengrocery, which will set up wherever communities want it.”
“Cultivate community share offer is now open. Cultivate is people-powered! A co-operative owned, run and financed by their members.”
Chapter 5: Wasting Away
Sustainable Blewbury – Waste and Recycling
Sustainable Blewbury Reduce Recycle events what to bring and what to leave behind!
VofWHDC Services – Recycling, Rubbish and Waste
Upcycling: use unwanted items to make something else! Make it and Mend it ideas for gardening, DIY, Food, household ……………….
Ecomodo – lend and borrow everyday goods, skills and spaces
Got stuff collecting dust in your shed ?
Lend stuff for free, make money for yourself or fundraise for charity
Need something but don’t want to splash out ?
Save money, time and space by borrowing stuff you don’t use often
Do you want something entirely different to do with waste fabrics? Zero-Waste Wall Art may be the answer!
Recycle-more.co.uk , the one-stop recycling information centre. You will find help and advice on all aspects of recycling at home, at school and in the workplace.
Chapter 6: Getting Around
Blewbury’s local buses and trains
Blewbury Energy Initiative: Transport Issues. This includes CO2 emissions from different types of transport, a detailed discussion on choosing a car, tips for driving to minimise fuel consumption, alternative road fuels and hydrogen and fuel cells.
Chapter 7: Wrapping up
Green House Gases, Global Warming and Climate Change
Peak Oil Primer – Energy bulletin from the Post Carbon Institute
Australian MP Andrew McNamara’s relocalisation speech
Environment
Oxfordshire Nature Conservation Forum (ONCF) is a partnership organisation that has been working across Oxfordshire for over 15 years. We have over 40 member organisations, including the local Wildife Trust, RSPB, Natural England,FWAG local authorities and community wildlife groups. …………… our aim is to ensure that increasingly scarce resources of time and money are used to greatest effect for conservation in Oxfordshire.
Sustainability
Low Carbon Hub
Communities working together for a low carbon future
Our aim is to dramatically cut carbon emissions across Oxfordshire by providing a “hub” where you, communities, can find a route to all you need to take action on climate change
Renewable Technologies
Domestic Generation information from the Blewbury Energy Initiative website.
Ashden: sustainable solutions, better lives.
Ashden promotes universal access to sustainable energy. In the UK they promote local sustainable energy and a shift to a low carbon economy bringing green jobs, energy security, lower fuel bills and reduced fuel poverty.
The Ashden Awards bring to light ground-breaking green energy champions in the UK and developing world and inspire others to follow. Their knowledge centre includes reports on technologies, including:
low energy buildings,
wind power,
Grid connected solar panels (pv)
Money Saving Ideas
The Green Way to Save: Recycle-more.uk suggests 10 simple ways to save money and help the environment at the same time.
Oxford Wood Recycling Ltd (OWR) reuses and recycles wood and timber, helping to reduce the amount of waste wood sent to landfill in Oxfordshire and West Berkshire. We collect waste wood and we sell the wood we have rescued. Over the past 4 years our customers have brought new life to discarded wood by creating items for use indoors and out.
Wine Rack
Chicken Coop
