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• young people concerned about climate change
• got to take carbon out of electricity
• massive increase in renewables needed
• schools have plenty of roof space
• can we work together to put solar panels on our school roof?
Cutting Carbon at Camden School for Girls
A word from the students
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•community school, outstanding results, empowering young women
•existing multi-faceted green strategy
•moving to next exciting stage, but background of falling budgets
•seeking support from local community partners
•need to engage next generation in challenge - living with climate change
Cutting Carbon at Camden School for Girls
About Camden School for Girls
5. Cutting Carbon at Camden School for Girls
Our Carbon Reduction Plans
• ReFit 1 programme
• Forecast 36% energy saving
• EPC Band D
• Aiming for Eco-schools status
• Next stage: reducing carbon emissions: solar thermals and here solar PV
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•Why now: roof works Summer 2015
•30 kWp array
•13 tonnes CO2 saving
•Annual income / savings £4000
•Technical and legal issues in hand, financing is the issue
•Capital cost: £45,000 less £5,000 pledged
•Deficit means need alternative avenues
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Solar Generation: the proposal
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•Why now: roof works Summer 2015
•30 kWp array
•13 tonnes CO2 saving
•Annual income / savings £4000
•Technical and legal issues in hand, financing is the issue
•Capital cost: £45,000 less £5,000 pledged
•Deficit means need alternative avenues
Solar Generation: the proposal
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•Aim to devise a scheme - mutual benefits - what interests businesses?
•Sponsorship opportunities: publicity, profile - 10:10 school
•Carbon offset?
•Student interaction:
• outbound: work placements Year 10 & Sixth Form internships
• inbound: apprentices training with school student
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Partnership with Camden School for Girls
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•Build on existing links: Arup workshops etc
•Further opportunities: science, geography, economics, arts, music, citizenship
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Curriculum benefits: Seeing is believing
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today is about collaboration
we are seeking partners
think innovative and model for others
roof generation will become the norm
schools and businesses can reduce carbon together
let's set good example to next generation
for more information speak to our Solar Panel team
see more information on Project Dirt http://projectdirt.com/project/14209/
In conclusion… a model for the future
20. Benefits
• Diverts food waste from landfill,
• Reduces waste transport & emissions,
• Generates local, renewable fuel and
fertiliser,
• Supports local employment and
enterprise opportunities,
• Engagement and educational
opportunities
• Complements large digesters by accessing
hard to reach wastes
21. Opportunities of social housing estates
Create an economically sustainable closed-loop model
• Employment and training for residents
• AD system construction
• Food waste collection + AD operation
• Food-related enterprise opportunities
Urban agriculture
Community kitchen/café
Food processing
Link with surplus food networks
• Savings from reduced residual waste disposal costs (at £63 per
diverted tonne) could be used to support schemes
22. • AD is an important but underrepresented low-
carbon energy option that can complement
other renewables
• Supports on-going local employment, training
and enterprise opportunities, when integrated
with urban agriculture
• Communities can participate in creating the
circular economy
Summary
OUR
WASTE IS A
VALUABLE RESOURCE!
25. Why community energy?
• Local and democratic ownership of
energy generation
• Increasing resilience in communities
by creating a fund to help fuel poor
• The Transition ethos of “just doing
stuff”
26. Why work with us?
• We will fund solar installation through
community share offer
• Reduced energy bills at no cost
• Help contribute to a local fund to help local
community cut energy bills, especially the
fuel poor
• Build positive and sustainable relationship
with local area while supporting local
transition to renewables
27. Help us Power Up North London!
• We want PUNL to remain a genuine
community project, run by and for people in
our community
• If you’d like to be involved with the project,
get in touch!
powerupnorthlondon@gmail.com
Powerupnorthlondon.wordpress.org
Thank you!
31. A social platform for community projects
• Connect
• Find people with similar interests.
• Find projects doing similar things.
• Enable collaboration at a local level.
• Manage
• Coordinate tasks.
• Group Messaging.
• Discussion threads / forums.
• Resource
• Find Volunteers.
• Find Expertise.
• Find Funding.
• Promote
• Build an audience.
• Tell Stories: Blog. Share photos. Share
videos.
• Promote your events.
• Links with social media.
32. Brixton Energy (Local Energy Co-operative) The Wandle Trust (Conservation) Dalston Eastern Curve (New Park)
Lewisham Hostel Garden (Food growing) St Luke’s Community Centre (Tool sharing) The RESTART Project (Recycling)
Assembly Gardens (New park/conservation) Solar Schools (Solar/education) Lewisham Gardens (Food growing)
33. How we use (other) social media
#GetOffGetDirty
34. Our 4 cornerstones & Where are we
today…
• Tangible/real life projects
• We connect real people undertaking real
projects. Project Dirt is a “doing” network.
• Resourcing real needs
• At our core, Project Dirt needs to provide
benefits to its different users.
• Neutral / Transparent platform
• We manage the network, our members are
the champs.
• Local
• Local activity is more engaging and
relevant. Project Dirt “groups” activity
locally.
• 10,500 members
• 2,200 community projects
• 1,100 projects in London
• 114 projects in Camden
• 115 engage with community
energy/
• 13,000 events
• 60-80 per week
• 5,200 journal posts
39. Re-energising Camden page on Project
Dirt: The place to…
• Start/continue the conversation
• Ask for help
• Discuss your project
• Find local support & be part of
a like-minded community
• Be discoverable to other
Camden followers, including
businesses
49. Thank you
Come and see us at our stall if you would like to hear more
nick@projectdirt.com
www.projectdirt.com
@projectdirt
facebook.com/projectdirt
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“Just doing stuff”- book by Rob Hopkins. Idea that we have the power to make change and don’t need to wait for change from above. A grassroots revolution.
As a whole: A library of case studies. Genuine examples, based on tangible activities.
e.g. For those who want to get involved, but don’t know where to start.
PD = a social media channel?
NETWORKING / CONNECTING
BLOGGING
SHARING IMAGES
SHARING VIDEOS
A small selection of the 1,700 projects currently using Project Dirt:
GOGD Stats:
#1 most viewed project page across the site during the period (8 weeks)
The project had 2,228 page views
There were between 131- 146 tweets across each of the 10 twitter accounts with each account reaching over 19,000 twitter accounts.
173 people came to the project page on PD through Twitter
