Carbon-busting Sessions:
8pm – 9.30pm in South Oxford Community Centre, Lake Street, during October and November.
These topic-specific evening sessions will involve a brief talk, followed by an opportunity to have your specific queries answered by local experts on a variety of carbon-busting topics.
Wed 5th Oct
Lighting & Appliances
A look at all things electric, including discovering which domestic appliances make the biggest contribution to our footprint; learning about 'embodied' energy and how it can help us decide when upgrading to a more efficient model makes financial, and environmental sense; uncovering the electrical vampires that sap the energy in our homes and how to defeat them. We’ll have a light bulb library on hand to help find low energy options for your more unusual light fittings and have a troubleshooting session for Eco-eyes.
Wed 12th Oct
Heating & Insulation
Practical, in-depth, information about how to keep our homes cosy without it costing the earth. We'll look at the various insulation options available to use and their payback period, the boiler scrappage scheme, grants and subsidised services, as well as offering some quick fixes.
Wed 19th Oct
Travel
Whether to work, school, shopping or off on our holidays - we travel further and faster than our ancestors would every of considered possible. Travel broadens the mind, and keeps far flung families and friends in contact. A daily drudge or a life-enhancing opportunity? We'll see what options are available for a lower carbon approach.
Wed 2nd Nov
Stuff
All the products and services that we buy add their weight to our overall carbon footprint – from their production and transport, to use, and final disposal - all clock up the "carbs". We'll discuss some of the every day stuff that finds its way into our home, learn about their relative impact in terms of our carbon footprint and how this can be reduced - or eliminated entirely.
Wed 9th Nov
Food & Cooking
From farm to fork - the journey our food takes to get to our plates is a a complex one. We'll unpick the various factors that make up the carbon footprint of the food we eat and discover there's much more to the issue than simply food miles.
Wed 16th Nov
Green Energy
Our first five carbon busting sessions are all about how we can reduce our carbon footprint by reducing our consumption of energy. Having one all we can to reduce our energy use, what options are open to use to "decarbonise" the energy that we do use? We'll look at the green energy offerings from power companies - and the options to generate cleaner energy ourselves.
Information sheets will be available on many of these topics for those unable to make the sessions and additional in-depth and one-to-one support may also be available to participants.