Gödöllő Climate Club
November 2009
The carbon footprint of the November Club …
The footprints of clubs are calculated with the Energy Club event-footprint calculator. 
The following factors are taken into consideration:
- number of participants in the club,
- how people travelled and from how far,
- what and how much we ate and drank,
- how many pages of printed materials we made and handed out in the club,
- what kind of electronic equipment we used in the club,
- how much energy we used in the club, and
- how much we prepared for the club: how much energy and how many sheets of paper we used during the preparation.
Taking all the above into consideration, we can say that related to the 16th November Club the total amount of CO2 emmitted was 142.35 kg. The following table shows the proportions:
Climate Club
Programme
16 November 2009
I. Introductions…
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- What do you expect of the Club? Why have you come?
- What would you like to achieve?
- Individual thinking for a few minutes, putting down ideas in two topics for 2-2 post-its, then presenting the ideas
II. What do you measure at home? Data collection
What kind of questions, problems did you have?
Sample data, measure demonstration: Edina, Vadovics example
III. What can be done?
Brainstorming for each room in groups
The 4 groups:
1. kitchen
2. bathroom/toilet
3. rooms (sleeping room, living room, study, children’s)
4. garden/DIY/house renovation
Taking notes on flip chart paper and then presenting it
IV. Ideas with ADDITIONS
The most efficient activities for each room
Orsi - presentation
V. Individual commitments – TEMPLATE presentation
What kind of information we would like to be taken down and sent to us
VI. Closing
· Next meeting: when – „Christmas”, shall we meet at the weekend with children’s programmes?
· What to do until the next meeting?
· ECO FOOTPRINT!!
· To present: website and E. Vadovics
· before and after club as well… !!
Consumption reduction attempts of the Fitrian family – Part 1
I am happy to report that at the end of November I made the effort and started to tidy up the bill chaos for last and this year – water, electricity, gas, bills, envelopes – at first sight a chaotic collection of data. I was planning to fill the calculator table quickly, but it took me half a day to collect all the figures. However, it was not useless! The consumption of a full year and the related price together with its CO2 emission make you think. Even though it is much less than the Hungarian average (probably because we do not have a car).
We live in Pest in the 7th District on the third floor of a 100-year-old block of flats. My younger Sister and the three of us (Orsi, Rian and the two-year-old Mirkó, who absolutely counts as one as far as consumption is concerned ;-) ) live in a 45-square-meter flat.
Even though I found all the data we could not see any changes in consumption compared to last year (especially not improvement) since until last November there were only two of us in the flat. It was at the beginning of November that the number went up to four.
The good news is that though the number of people living here doubled, the consumption did not double! From 2008 to 2009 gas consumption went up by 25 per cent, electricity by 20-25 per cent, water by 30 per cent.
Unfortunately, it is also true that the November 2008 consumption (with the current number of people) is lower than in November 2009! Although it is not colder or darker....well....
Since the Climate Club was started we have made some saving measures:
· We have bought a new energy saving central light bulb to the room (the one at the desk and next to the bed were originally energy saving bulbs).
· We made a list of the realistic goals + the methods already in use and we try to stick to them.
· On the website www.egymozdulat.hu we checked our November consumption in HUF (see table below, website is introduced at the Useful Websites!). The result was put on the wall so that we can see it every day J Using the public utilities in November cost us 860 HUF per day. Multiplying it by 30 may not look so bad to many (according to my mother and Coffee drinking Aunt Ági quite normal) but if we add the costs of the building, internet, telephone etc. it would be better half price only....
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Electricity |
Water |
Gas |
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Daily average |
Consumption |
9.59 kWh |
0.31 m3 |
1.93 m3 |
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Cost |
420 Ft |
186 Ft |
255 Ft |
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CO2 emission |
2.97 m3 |
0.09 m3 |
1.93 m3 |
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Oak tree eqivalent |
7.77 fa |
0.23 fa |
5.11 fa |
Unfortunately, things do not go as smooth as we expect...
The main obstacles are the following:
- Mirkó switches on and off the energy saving floor lamp (Does anybody have any idea how to dissuade him? The words ’not good’, ’you mustn’t’ and ’don’t do’ do not help).
- My Mesi sister uses up all the hot water in the heater in a minute and is not willing to give up this luxury. Shall I stick the electricity pricetable in the bathroom?! ;-)
- Unfortunately, we use running water to wash up because the place is small. But the real reason is that we are lazy...
- The entrance door has no insulation whatsoever. It’s warped and recently we have had problems locking it – maybe we need a new door?? Edina told me that the Environmental and Water Ministry announced the Climate-friendly Home Energy Efficiency tender again and it also includes the change of doors and windows. But the necessary paperwork looks horrible....
We do not see all the solutions at the moment, however, our awareness is already much higher than it was two months ago. J
The setting up of the Gödöllő Climate Club was supported by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission in the framework of the “Changing Behaviour” programme.
