Educating with the Eco Footprint
 

For AfSL volunteers.  A residential course at the Centre for Alternative Technology.  The next course takes place from 24-26 October. The eco footprint is a powerful educational tool which can help promote sustainability in a fun way. You will also get the opportunity to measure your own footprint! Travel, basic accommodation and food are provided.

Background

The Eco-footprint is proving to be a very powerful educational tool, which lends itself to promoting sustainability in a fun and interesting way. Through games and interactive workshops, it will show how we can use the Eco-footprint data to examine which areas of our lifestyles have the biggest impacts and those which are insignificant, giving us a powerful tool to help prioritise our actions.

Programme

Monday October 24

• 1000 Onwards – arrival. Please ask at Reception or in the Restaurant for directions to your room
• 1130 Introductory session
• 1300 Lunch
• 1400 What is measured in the footprint – a practical introduction
• 1600 Tea
• 1630 The Global Eco-footprint – how do we compare with other countries and what does that mean? Drawing the links between wider global issues & the Eco-footprint
• 1800 Supper
• 1900 What does the Eco-footprint not include?

Tuesday October 25

• 0830 Breakfast
• 0900 Analysing the UK footprint – which are the biggest impacts?
• 1100 Coffee
• 1130 What’s your own footprint? A look at a few personal EF indicators
• 1300 Lunch
• 1400 Workshop session. Reducing our EF – transport and direct energy.
• 1600 Tea
• 1630 Workshop session. Reducing our EF - food
• 1800 Supper
• 1900 Web resources and reports – where to find what

Wednesday October 26

• 0830 Breakfast
• 0930 Workshop session. Reducing our EF – the stuff we buy
• 1100 Coffee
• 1130 Workshop session. Reducing our EF by changing the energy sources we use
• 1300 Lunch
• 1400 A guide to where to find more information

About CAT

CAT is an environmental charity aiming to 'inspire, inform, and enable' people to live more sustainably. They demonstrate ways in which people, nature and technology can live together successfully. The natural world has many complex processes for maintaining its own survival. At the Centre you can see ways of living and technologies that do this - like our sewage systems, generators that obtain free power from the sun, rain and wind, and our buildings. Equally important are ways of doing things - like avoiding chemicals when gardening, achieving more with less, and not shutting nature out from our living and working spaces. Finally, there is a belief in valuing communities, and their right to control their immediate environments

Accommodation

Accommodation is very basic. The rooms are simply furnished with bunk beds and some have sinks. The lodge is situated in a beautiful location with stunning views. There are a small number of single rooms available at an extra cost of £10 per night. Please indicate if you would like a single room.

How much will it cost?

AFSL applied for a grant to cover the cost of course fees for this course at CAT. The course fee covers full board and accommodation at CAT, tuition and course materials. Food is vegetarian. Train travel expenses are also covered by AFSL, all other costs are not.

How do I reserve a place?

Places are limited so please contact Anna to book your place: 0845 456 4468 or [email protected]

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Action for Sustainable Living, St Wilfrid's Enterprise Centre, Royce Road, Hulme, , M15 5BJ.

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