The presentation describes the importance of carbon neutral neighborhood discussions/ consultations for ecological audit, transforming consumption, leisure, production for personal and collective well being. Carbon-neutral leisure is the best way we can reduce the emission of green house gases.

1. Centre for Ecological Audit, Social Inclusion and
Governance, Delhi, a joint initiative of Sewa, Delhi,
Labour League Foundation and Sufi Trust
Muhammad Mukhtar Alam, PhD
Executive Director (Hon),
April 2009
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Carbon Neutral Neighborhood
Discussions/ Consultations
(CNND/Cs) for Ecological Audit:
Personal and Neighborhood
Processes for Mitigating Climate
change

2. Contexts
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The impacts of climate change caused by the globalization of non-
renewable resource based consumption, production, habitats and
transport and so on are well known such as global warming,
deforestation, rise in sea level, melting of glaciers, change in
weather patterns and others.
International Panel on Climate on Climate Change has been
producing reports on the impacts of the climate change.
Governments alone cannot address the issues. We as citizens
need to take responsibility for our contribution in the emission of
the green house gases (GHGs).
Copenhagen Summit 2009 : An occasion for decisive action.

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There is a need to disseminate information through various
means for mitigating the ecological disasters and build
consensus on the required responses for reducing the
personal contribution to emission of Green House Gases
(GHGs).
Submerging of Coastal Areas as result of increase in the level
of sea level needs to be prevented.
Fellow men and women living in the cities especially has a
responsibility to work for mitigation of climate change while
taking best measures for adaptation.

4. Protecting Ecologically safe habitats is
the most urgent need
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5. Carbon Neutral Neighborhood
Discussions/ Consultations (CNND/Cs)
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The discussions, conversation, conferences that are held in
the neighborhood that can be reached by foot or carbon
neutral transports such as bicycle, bullock carts, horse
driven carriages and others.
The discussion that we hold at home and in the
neighborhood spaces such as parks, tea/ coffee shops
,vegetable shops, milk shops . All in the neighborhood.
The CNNDs initiated by CEASIG are proving to be an
important measure for eliminating personal contribution to
the emission of green house gases.

6. CNNDs on what?
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• For discussing personal responses for reducing the emission
of green house gases (GHGs) that are responsible for global
warming.
• Transforming travel decisions for energy intensive leisure
i.e. Leisure using GHG emitting transport and venues such
as bars and discotheques.
• Discussing alternatives ways for getting the feeling of
wellbeing including faith base practices such as practice of
prayer/yoga 5 times a day, meditations individually and
collectively, reading from the holy texts, visiting neighbors
and elderly .

7. CNNDs with whom
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With all irrespective of class, caste, race, religion, ethnicity,
gender etc. as we all are contributors to the emission of green
house gases in various measures and the impacts of the climate
change are affecting us all.
With children who could contribute through avoiding the green
house gas emitting engagements by shaping the decisions in
family
With women who are the potential consumers of the fossil fuel
based energy, services and leisure
With youth who are the potential consumers of the fossil fuel
based energy, services and leisure
With community leaders who are the potential consumers of the
fossil fuel based energy, services and leisure

8. Potential Contributors to the emission
of Gigs
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Who are potential contributor to the emission of green
house gases?
All of us are the potential contributor to the emission of
green house gases
Both poor and rich, black and white, brown and yellow
across the cities and villages
Across the nations, across the neighborhoods
Men and women across the age groups
Friendly nations and opponents

9. What is needed for Ends
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Information on climate change and its reasons
Commitments for communicating the same
Setting personal examples for addressing the impacts of
climate change
Desire to talk to people in the neighborhood
Carbon-neutral Spaces for conducting the Ends
A group of friends or relatives in the neighborhood ( we all
have common ancestors)

10. CNNDs for Communicating Ecological
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Ecological audit of the consumption patterns- there is need to
communicate ecological audit of the consumption patterns so
that we are sure that we consume for survival and not for luxury
and exhibition.
Ecological audit of the transport patterns- reduction in fossil fuel
based transport is critical for reducing emission of green house
gases. It is important to consider the interests of future
generations for ecologically safe habitats. Fossil fuel based
transports have a short history and short future. There is need to
prepare for the end of petromodern times
Ecological audit of the use of water, energy, food and time
Ecological audit of the travel needs

11. Ecological audit of the consumption
patterns
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There is need to communicate ecological audit of the
consumption patterns in order to ensure that we consume
for survival and not for ecologically hostile and socially
inequitable luxury and exhibition
Ecological Audit for learning about the ecological costs of the
consumption of exhaustible and non-renewable resource
based commodities and services
For learning the difference of renewable and non-renewable
resource based consumption

12. Ecological Audit of Consumption
pattern
For realizing the need to prepare beyond petro-modern
times i.e. the time and age when we or the posterity would
not have access to fossil fuel based services and commodities.
For assessing the sustainability and equity of consumption
through answering questions for the duration of the
availability of consumption and the number of people who
would be able to consume both in the rural and urban areas.
For enquiring whether what we are consuming would be
available for children of 40th
century
For getting beyond 5-10 years plan visions: envisioning the
first plan in the year 4001 AD.

13. Ecological Audit of habitations and
habitats
What habitations and habitats are ecologically sustainable?
Even the horizontally spaced mines based habitats do not
have a long future.
Does the energy intensive skyscraper laden urban habitats
have a long-term future.
Wouldn't they be rendered barren when reserves of non-
renewable resources would exhaust?
It can be seen that nations competing with numbers of
skyscrapers adorning their urban habitats are indulging in
ecologically dangerous visions.

14. Fossil fuel based habitats do not have
long future
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15. Ecological audit of production and
production processes
Production systems based on fossil fuels (coal, petroleum,
gas) neither has a long past nor it would have along future.
Only renewable resource based production has a future.
Therefore destruction of non-renewable resource based
production systems assuming continued supplies of fossil
fuel base energy is dangerous.
Recession is ecologically benevolent. Recession needs to be
stabilised for reversing the climate change processes through
abandoning ecologically hostile industrial production and
urban expansion.

16. Ecological audit of the transport
patterns
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Ecological audit of the transport patterns : reduction in fossil
fuel based transport is critical for reducing emission of green
house gases.
It is important to consider the interests of future generations
for ecologically safe habitats.
Fossil fuel based transports have a short history and short
future.
There is need to prepare for the end of petro-modern times

17. Non-renewable energy do not have
the age of stars
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18. Ecological Audit of the use of energy
Carbon-neutral neighbourhood discussions are needed also for
conducting ecological audit of energy use in homes and public places.
Non-renewable resources and energy would not be available for
humanity in the time in future and therefore there is a need to make use
of energy only for the essentials during night.
Switching off extra lights and using sun light during daytime optimally is
ecologically safe.
Ecologically safe housing, workplace and production plants needs to
planned considering the peak oil production and requirements of climate
change mitigation efforts.

19. Creator of the universes does not love
extravagance
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20. Ecological Audit of Food
The Creator of the universes has guaranteed sustenance for
all the creation
Creation of food sovereign neighbourhoods/communities/
nations is a necessity for all region specially the regions that
has been geographically less productive
Ecological Audit of food shows the need to create food
sovereign neighbourhoods as we would not have packaged
food in say 40th
century
Food production based on renewable resource based
methods are ecologically sustainable

21. Ecological audit of devotion to nation,
community, nation and humanity
How do we envisage the future of our community?
How do we envisage the future of our nation?
How do we envisage the future of humanity?
Do we envisage ecologically safe future for our community,
nation and humanity?
If we do, then are we considering endeavour for ensuring
ecologically safe futures?
Are we relating well with communities of practice to
ecologically safe futures?
Which community and religion has the best prescription for
ensuring ecologically safe and socially equitable future?

22. Devotion to ecologically safe
community, nation and leadership
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23. Ecological Audit of the use of time: key
questions
How do we use our time?
What are the carbon neutral ways for using the leisure time?
Can we change leisure use engagements that involves
emission of green house gases
Can we replace that with the adoption of faith based carbon
neutral measures such as prayer 5 times a day ?
How do we respond to the challenges of global warming ?
Do we allot time for responding to this?
Are we making personal contributions for reductions in the
emission of green house gases?

24. Using time for prayer, recitations,
supplications etc.
It is important to make the use of time for prayer, meditation,
recitations and repentance for being the best mediator
Practice of prayer 5 times a day creates reasons for staying away from
ecologically hostile engagements such as dancing halls and bars
It is important to understand time use patterns and find out about the
engagements where green house gas emissions are a by-product for
personal use of GHG emitting vehicles.
Adopting of the culture of prayer and meditation should be considered
the best option along with caring in the neighbourhood. This reduces
travel involving energy intensive transports.

25. Ecological audit of the travel needs
Assessing what are necessary travels and what are not.
Asking questions whether travels can be minimised within the city and
across the cities and, within the nation and across the nations.
Using carbon-neutral modes of social engagements in the neighbourhood
for social needs.
Avoiding leisure engagements where emission of green house gases is
involved.
Transforming travel intensive leisure through adoption of carbon-neutral
faith based measures
Prayer 5 times a day is indeed a way out for spending leisure in the home
and neighbourhoods
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26. Ecological audit of the use of water
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Water supply in the urban areas has become an energy
intensive process rendering Ecological audit of water use
necessary
Petromodern water supply systems for energy intensive water
distribution systems would not be there
Supplying water to multistoried building would be
extremely difficult in the near future
Are we planning for equitable distribution of water ?
Are we planning for carbon-neutral systems for supplies of
water and preparing for the same?

27. Ecological audit of educational policy
What are the visions that we have for the children in 40th
century?
Are we preparing the educational policy for the end of
petromodern times?
Ecologically sustainable development of lives and social
systems is critical for all nations and we all need to take
simultaneous action for integrating the vision of ecologically
safe and socially equitable habitats for future generations.
Education policy needs to get coherence in visions across the
primary, secondary and higher education.

28. Anger of Birds/deprived could be real
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29. Impacts of CNND/Ss and Ecological
Audit
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Reduction in the personal contribution to the emission of
green house gases.
Multiplication of the discussion across the neighborhoods
Multiplication of the personal decisions for reducing the
emission of green house gases.
Adoption of neighborhood carbon neutral measures for
leisure ,relaxation, spiritual wellbeing and procuring the
provisions .
Ecologically safe future for children of 40th
century with the
permission of Almighty Allah, the Creator of Universes.