Saturday, 28 November 2009

Zero Carbon Sonderborg



At last I have found it - a place bold enough to make the case for zero carbon emissions (not just low carbon emissions, which is a fairly meaningless term since it can be used to mean almost anything, including 1% less than business as usual).
Zero Carbon Sonderborg has extremely ambitious proposals to get to zero emissions by 2029, and they have been carefully worked out in a plan which is about to be published.
They have a number of innovative initiatives on how to do it, including zero families; a zero plus house, which generates more energy than it uses (so you get a cheque from the electricity company, not a bill - that should go down well with the public!); Bright Green Youth which organised a conference in August this year to come up with climate solutions, which will be presented to the COP in Denmark, and implemented in Sonderborg this year; zero farming, involving energy saving ideas and using manure to generate energy; zero municipality; and business (Bright Green Business).
I meet with managing director Peter Rathje and his assistant Christian, and they explain the ideas behind Zero Carbon Sonderborg.They have solved the problem of transportation without using oil by going electric - the same idea promoted by the Centre for Alternative Technology in their Zero Carbon Britain report

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