Gödöllői Climate Club
December 2009
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 – in January we had a lot since we printed all materials ,
- 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 and how much energy we used during the preparation.
Taking all the above into consideration we can say that related to the December Club the total amount of CO2 emitted was 103 kg. The following table shows the proportions:
Climate Club programme
14 December 2009
I. What did you measure at home? Data collection
What kind of questions, problems did you have?
Sample data, measurement demonstration: Orsi, Fitrian family examples
II. Own objectives – what has been achieved?
Can you use the table? Is anything missing from the table?
Are they doing many things?
Discussion, questions, ideas...
III. „Story of stuff” watching the film and discussion
Indonesian and Hungarian eco-footprint, carbon footprint
+Rian about Indonesia (based on the film!! Points: they also want to live on a western level; poisoning factories; destroyed rainforests, peoples losing their lands – the Papuas!!, exploitation etc.)
IV. Closing
Next meeting: when shall we meet?
Things to do until the next meeting – reading the meter, sending data in…
Table of goals and commitments.
Before and after the Club:
ECO FOOTPRINT measurement opportunity
Consumption reduction attempts of the Fitrian family – Part 2
(Basic information: 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. )
Since our December ’report’ there have been a few positive changes in Hernád Street. I have collected the main ones.
· We bought a new energy efficient light bulb for my Sister’s room. She had had energy saving lighting before but the light was so dim, you could hardly see anything in the depressing darkness. We had not informed her about the ’development’ to see if she realizes... Well, we had nothing to worry about! The light flooded the room and Sister could not understand how she had survived the last one and a half years in this darkness...And the two bulbs use the same amount of energy!
· On the www.egymozdulat.hu website we registered our latest measure meter reading figures. The meters show that in December our electricity consumption increased slightly (Christmas lights!) but the gas consumption dramatically (no comment) from 1.93 m3 to 3.56 m3. However, our daily average water consumption decreased from 0.31 m3 to 0.26 m3 compared to the November data! I was so enthusiastic but Rian brought me back to the ground saying that at Christmas we spent 5 days with the relatives. It is easy to save this way …..but I still hope it was not only for this reason! ;-)
· The dynamo lamp we got for Christmas has turned out to be very useful at night when the light is off and I try to get to the little bed and fix the blanket on Mirkó etc.
· We started to look for entrance doors on the internet. It is far from cheap but in February we will probably buy a new one. The cold just comes in even though we put some clothes to the doorstep. What’s more, the locking bar can be opened and closed from inside only and the upper one from outside only. So the situation is funny and freezing L.
· As a further investment I would like a sand-clock to the bathroom, a 5-minute clock. We need some drastic measures because in winter it is really much more difficult to leave the hot shower!
· From our commitments the kitchen has been quite neglected so far, which means that we have been postponing to put into practice the ’standing water’ washing up method (i.e. washing up the dishes in the sink and not in running water). And we are not so hardworking cleaning the cooker either. However, we have an active small kitchen assistant who pre-washes the dirty pots after some food without asking and without hot water.
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.
You can download the carbon calculator of the club here.
