THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGE

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• The Church in London

• The Diocese of London
• Covers 277 square miles of Greater London and
  Surrey north of the Thames, from Staines in the
  west to the Isle of Dogs in the east, and as
  far north as Enfield
• It comprises
• The Cities of London and Westminster, the London
  boroughs of Brent, Harrow, Ealing, Hillingdon,
  Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, Hackney,
  Islington, Tower Hamlets, Hounslow, Kensington
  Chelsea, Hammersmith Fulham and Richmond-upon-T
  hames (part), and Spelthorne in Surrey
• The Diocese has
• 3.6 million people 1.6 million homes 479
  churches 69,000 adult members 191 parishes in
  Urban Priority Areas 147 church schools with
  47,000 pupils

Implementing the Church of
England policy on shrinking the environmental
footprint and playing a full part in the
debate on ecological matters.
London Challenge 2012
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• The Challenge

• Climate change
• Shrinking the Footprint, www.ShrinkingTheFootprin
  t.org
• London Challenge 2012
• Reducing our CO2 emissions
• Down by at least 20.12 by 2012, 80 by 2050
• Carbon/environment sustainable when?

Shrinking the Footprint is the Church of
Englands national ... campaign to enable its
members and institutions to address in faith,
practice, and mission the pressing issue of
climate change.
It aims to challenge, encourage and support
the whole body of the Church to shrink our
environmental footprint to create The 20
Church by ... sustainable reductions in ...
carbon emissions to 20 of current levels
by 2050.
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• Recording and auditing

• Recording useage
• Parish annual returns
• Units and costs
• Energy/ environmental audits
  Energy, carbon, water,
  waste
• Personal carbon footprints
• Carbon footprint calculators

Unless we know where we are starting from,
we cannot plan how best to reduce our
impact.
www.shrinkingthefootprint.org
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• How to save, church and home

• Diocesan website advice
• Low energy lightbulbs turning down thermostat
  switching to green energy
• Other tips
• Curtains and radiators not heating every room
  doors closed, lights off kettle
  not overfull washing machine, fridge loads
  avoiding standby plasma TVs, digital radios ?
• Building alterations
• Draught excluders loft wall
  insulation better controls, eg radiator
  valves double glazing, renewables eg solar
  panels

Since 1970, the demand from UK households
has increased by 32.
BBC News, 23/10/06
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• Property and buildings

• Churches and halls Area environmental
  audits Generic Building Solutions roof repairs,
  solar panels DAC and English Heritage
  embodied carbon, buildings and works
  sustainable design quinquennial inspections
• Parsonages Home energy surveys, with QIs
  insulation new boilers

• Commercial property Residential and
  commercial leases renewables installations
• Causton Street Auditing and action energy,
  carbon, water and waste microgeneration?
  paper IT

Did you know that buildings produce nearly half
of the UKs carbon emissions?
www.campaigns.direct.gov.uk/epc/
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• Three diocesan projects

• Area environmental audits
• Energy, carbon, water and waste aiming at min
  20.12 savings by 2012 commencing in Two Cities
• Generic building solutions
• Sample survey of building types factors
  facilitating or constraining
  major change for 80-100 savings
  commencing Hackney, Hampstead, Northolt
• Churchwarmer
• Experimental pod with temporary small business
  startup units, combined heat and power

We are looking to see how the entire stock can
be assessed, in order to develop generic
solutions with a view to improving their
environmental performance ... The best way to
hit challenging targets is to aim higher.
Generic Building Solutions, brief
St Stephen Walbrook
Care of Churches
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• Generic building solutions

• Background
• 479 churches, diverse range, often much altered
• Medieval, Restoration, Georgian, Victorian, 20th
  c etc
• How to assess?
• Aims
• Generic solutions to improve environmental
  performance
• 20.12 CO2 reductions by 2012, 80 by 2050
• To hit challenging targets, aim higher!
• 100 sustainability, carbon footprint,
  environmental performance
• Holistic fabric, services, management, user
  behaviour
• Stepney, Kensington, Edmonton, Willesden areas
• Sampling strategy, to represent
  diversity
• Walk in-and-out inspections
• Key constraints performance,
  alterations
• Outputs
• Analysis and advice, promotion,
  funding
• Flagship projects, diocese-wide
  programme

Buildings ... are children of Earth and Sun.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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• The need

• Why this?
• 2012-2050 targets 20.12 easy 80 plus very
  tough Cutting deep into fundamental
  issues Linch-pin of Dioceses drive to
  low-carbon economy Complementary to Two Cities
  programme Spin-offs locally and
  nationally Selection of elective
  audits Data for benchmarking
• Why now?
• No time to lose! Long-term planning for
  2011/12 Analysis pilot projects finance
  wider roll-out Heritage issues National
  StF launch, 11 June 2009 Carbon Trust grant
  applied for Recession no time to go soft on
  climate change, need to redouble efforts

Act on CO2.
UK Government campaign
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• Value for money

• Aim climb from 20.12 to 80, but
• Only half attributable to local effort
  Half from power
  generation, government measures
• Assumptions
• 100 of net desired saving increase, unlisted
  churches 50 for Grade
  II, 25 for II churches
  
  No saving (above 20.12) for Grade I churches
  (pessimistic)
• Total savings 3,466 tonnes per year, over and
  above 20.12
• Further adjustments
• 50 added to above figure (other dioceses taking
  part) Total divided by
  two (only half output attributable to
  this programme, half to other factors)
• Net total 2600 tonnes pa output for grant
  input of 10K
• (50 estimated costs net of VAT 50 match funds
  from diocese)

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• A wonderful world

Oil is failing, and will eventually ... cease to
exist. This constitutes, among other things, the
most serious problem that architecture has faced
during the entire modern period ... Government
has persistently done all the wrong things so far
... almost no pressure on the automobile industry
to explore power sources other than pure gasoline
... it has persistently played down solar energy
... But passive energy systems ... are capable of
handling about two-thirds of a normal house's
requirements for energy ... Passive solar energy
should therefore be encouraged by government in
every conceivable way. Incentives ... should
make it possible, perhaps mandatory, for every
new building to be designed and built with a
maximum passive energy system, including
conservation measures, solar collectors,
greenhouses, and all the many simple devices
which are now available to recycle wastes and,
where applicable, to harness the wind. Beyond
that, all old structures, whether urban or rural,
and of whatever size, should be fitted with
whatever set of passive systems and conservation
devices their conformation and setting permit ...
In all these categories the opportunities for
architecture are enormous ... It could ... be
a wonderful world ... Its architectural forms
could be richer, more varied,
and more fantastic than those of any of the
utopian visions we have seen so far.
Vincent Scully, 1980
Bedzed, Wallington