sustainability street institute - eco fingerprint background

you are here:

Home

background

Home

-------------------------------

Why SSA?

What's it About?

How To Get Involved

-------------------------------

Visit the Villages

Help Susty St, Grow?

Evaluation and Results

Vox Bandicoot website

Site Map

The eco•fingerprint

The Eco Footprint tells us where we've been, and that we've left a heavy trail.

The ecoloogical•fingerprint points to where we are going! Consider and commit to your emerging new relationship with the earth into next week, next year, next decade! Calculate your eco*fingerprint score. --- The eco*fingerprint has been appraised and endorsed by David Suzuki

			Sustainability Street Institute Inc. 60 Cambridge St, Collingwood VIC 3066
			+61 3 9416 1066

			This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Sustainability St Manual

Click on the Read More button, directly right, at the base of the How paragraph. The Manual is available on a cd as a PDF which also includes "Sustainability Street 4.0 - the Shortcut" and copious other resourcs. Molto bene.

search

Village Login

e-store

Sustainbility Estore Products (0)

eco fingerprint background

footprint flab

The unforgiveable flab which we’ve got to work with! It’s the obese footprint of the consumption Behemoth called western culture!

13% of Australia’s gHg pollution is due to phantom energy! It is enough to power entire Cities of the ilk of Geelong or Wollongong. The main reason is standby power. Hundreds of millions of tonnes of gHg could be saved by switching it off at the wall.
Australians spent around $14 Billion on new clothes in 2006. They required 382 Billion litres of water to make. That’s half the water in Sydney Harbour. (ACF Consumption Atlas.)
One litre of bottled water requires 1000 litres to be produced. (Brian Baylie. Former CEO Melb Water)
Apparently, the little bit of extra water boiled in kettles around the land uses an amount of energy equivalent to running the entire street lighting needs of Australia.
Numerous body corporates ban the drying of clothes outdoors, in favour of energy hungry drying appliances. In some US states it is actually illegal by State Law to dry the clothes outside.
45% of urban car trips are less than 2km. 20% are easy walking distance. (MEFL. Murdoch Uni)
A kilogram of meat protein requires between 10 and 20 times more land, energy, water and resources than a kilogram of vegetable protein. Inveterate meat eaters consume way more than is good for health. Eating just one fewer red meat meals a week would save 300 kilograms of gHg and 10,400 litres of water!
Over 20% of the world’s greenhose load is the result of de-afforestation.
About a quarter of our household Greenhouse Pollution, half our water consumption and 60% of our eco-footprint is embodied in the food we eat! (ACF Consumption Atlas)

Home grown food requires less than 20% of the water and zero energy to transport.
About a quarter of our household Greenhouse Pollution, half our water consumption and 60% of our eco-footprint is embodied in the food we eat! (ACF Consumption Atlas)
Two German scientists, Dr Gerhard Knies and Dr Franz Trieb, calculate that covering just 0.5% of the world’s hot deserts with a technology called concentrated solar power (CSP) would provide the world’s entire electricity needs, with the technology also providing desalinated water to desert regions as a valuable byproduct, as well as air conditioning for nearby cities. Scientists say the global energy crisis can be solved by using the desert sun. (J. Downey MEFL)
Apparently, all of the money spent by the Nuclear Industry since the 1950s would have been sufficient to have created a global self sustaining solar economy by now.
Only about 15% of our individual environmental impact is through direct water and energy use. The rest is embodied in goods and services we consume. (ACF Consumption Atlas.)
The secret to outsmarting carp was learned through a project to temporarily drain a billabong? The native fish knew to shoot through to the wider river system and survive. The carp however went the other way, crowded into the rapidly depleting end, where they were trapped and eliminated. (Radio National March 07)
Choosing vegetarianism reduces yearly GhG emissions by the equivalent of replacing a V8 with a Prius! (Peter Singer)
If all the organic material removed from the soil of US farming lands, were returned, it would equate to sequestering all of the carbon emitted by motor vehicles in the US since 1930.

walking and talking

The ecological•fingerprint® ... is a mirror to behaviour change ... which is the foundation of culture change... which requires both walking and talking

Walking = Action
Slowly but surely adjusting our lifestyles to squeeze out the waste which is both directly and indirectly involved in the Water, Energy and Resources which enable our lives.

Both acting and influencing are crucial to the ecological•fingerprint metric ...... with the “talking” bit taking pre-emminence.

Talking = Influencing

The bottom line is that we are players in a “culture” which is unsustainable at its core. Each of us needs to do what we can to re-shape the culture. Reaching out to posively and optimistically influence others in families, neighbourhoods and workplaces is a mahjor way we can be a part of shaping culture. Make no mistake, eventually, the big pillars of culture such as the law, politics and the economy will floow and back up what we do locally in the fullness of time.

Coming Home! Changing the World - Around Us!

Friday July 23

Why conversations are better than solar panels.
Why converting the naysayers is a green herring.
How we learn and why we change.
How nature knows what we should do --- but better.
Why we need to learn, plan, do & imagine together.
How to save & make money in the new economy.
Why every decision we make matters.

Discover how we learn and why we change, think deeply on sustainability and learn how take your workplace or community on a cost positive journey into the fast approaching future. A meaningful, fun and inspiring professional development experience that will rock your world, delivered by Earth’s own Ian McBurney.

Book in at www.liveecological.com.au

The DIY SSA Pioneered by Cities of Randwick, Waverly, Woolahara Rouse Hill, Winston Hills as well as The City of Whitehorse and Hobsons Bay in Melbourne is described in the Prospectus, see to the left, near the How Heading, to download. It all starts with a Sustainability Street Train the Mentor course open to council officers and community alike. Below, the historic, first ever TTM introduced by Skype --- thanks to the Clovelly Child Care Centre Sustainability St Village --- & Cities of Randwick, Waverly and Woollahara in East Sydney.

Below, the Clovelly Villagers at the other end of the "Cyber Skype Workshop". Like wow baby!

The TTM Syllabus

The 29th NSW Environmental Eduction Conference
Erika Van Shellenbeck is presenting the Willoughby SSA Case Study to this conference. Erik's an SSA pioneer and veteran whose early support with the City Of Willoughby was crucial to the introduction of the SSA to NSW. Download the case study for a sneak preview ...

Sustainility Street Willoughby

Selection of media coverage:

Vic Health

Sunday Age
Sydney Morning Herald
Life Magazine
Green Magazine

Bilfinger Berger Magazine

csiro_ecos_magazine

	2006 Copyright “VOX BANDICOOT” All rights are reserved