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Creating Low Carbon Communities: One Planet Living Solutions

Ecological footprinting allows us to relate our consumption of natural resources to the Earth’s biological capacity, i.e., its ability to replenish resources and to absorb greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Comparing the planet’s biological capacity to the World Ecological Footprint suggests that we, as a global society, are currently consuming 25% more per annum than the planet can sustain into the long term. We are fuelling this excess consumption by eating into the natural capital of the planet resulting in forest loss, soil degradation, depletion of fishing grounds, and global warming. Rich and poor countries are consuming at widely different rates. If everyone on earth consumed as much as the average person in the UK, we would need three planets to support us. If we all consumed as much as the average American we would need five planets to support us. The 100-unit Beddington Zero fossil Energy Development (BedZED) eco-village in the London Borough of Sutton was developed by The Peabody Trust in partnership with BioRegional. As well as energy efficient buildings, various service providers were involved to create a more sustainable lifestyle. For example, we worked with car club provider, CityCarClub, to introduce the first car club to London; and with the London Borough of Croydon to develop woodchip supply from tree surgery waste as a renewable energy source rather than sending it to landfill. Local, seasonal, organic vegetable providers were identified, as were waste collectors to provide for greater domestic and commercial recycling. Approximately one half of the ecological footprint of the average person in the UK is attributable to CO2 emissions. The average person in the UK has a carbon footprint of around 12 tonnes of per annum made up by fossil fuels burned in the UK (around 10 tonnes per annum) and, because we are a net importer of food and manufactured goods, from CO2 released in other countries (two tonnes per annum). Although the UK government is on course to meet its Kyoto targets, in reality our carbon impact has increased and as we have exported food production and manufacturing—it just appears on another country’s direct emissions figures.