[Offtopic] galloping glaciers

[Cameron Bell]

I ride the bike to work. Out of a staff of 100, 2 of us do on a regular 
basis. Only 2% of staff ride bikes!
My "work" car took 12 months to clock up 10,000km and is currently 
serviced once a year.
One way to get schools thinking how much work needs to be done for 
sustainability would be to:
1) 2/3rd the number of carparks available each year.
2) Insist teachers not travel between campuses on a regular basis.
3) Insist Principals teleconference instead of using salary sacrificed 
cars to travel to meetings.
4)  Insist that hire buses be "green" (and have seatbelts)
5) Re-build bike sheds

How popular would that be?  As bout as popular and achievable as  
<insert humorous simile>

Cheers
Cameron




Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> Good point Stephen, last year we switched our home to electricity 
> sourced from a wind farm and this year switched our two family cars to 
> biodiesel and biopetrol (new servo in Boronia). Its something we can 
> do now to make a huge impact on our family greenhouse gas production. 
>
> Still, a friend was at pains to point out that not only do we need to 
> make my life more sustainable and reduce our eco-footprint, we need to 
> also think about reversing the debt made by ignoring the warnings for 
> the past few decades. (sigh). If we think of the damage caused by all 
> our schools, not just today but over the last couple of decades, then 
> the mind boggles.
>
> Regards Roland
>
> On 25/02/07, *Stephen Digby* <digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au 
> <mailto:digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
>
>     The "inconvenient solution' to the planetary problems that beset
>     us is of course "sustainability".
>     The planetary problem lies in the cross-cultural pervasiveness of
>     the deadly enemies of sustainability -  "growth" and "development".
>     Unfortunately, the "haves" in all human societies preserve their
>     position only by encouraging the "have nots" to fantasise that
>     they will benefit eventually from growth and development.  The
>     aspirations of the common people in China and India are likely to
>     accelerate this planetary destruction.  The "developed" world is
>     still in denial thinking of more and more irresponsible ways to
>     achieve the ludicrous goal of "sustainable growth".
>     Politicians get ever more strident as they want you to accept
>     props to the continued insanity of growth such as nuclear power,
>     recycled water, ever higher density housing,   These
>     "developments" are far more like a desperate fix for a addiction,
>     than ecologically desirable and sustainable improvements from the
>     planet.
>      
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>     <mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au>] *On Behalf Of *Roland
>     Gesthuizen
>     *Sent:* Sunday, 25 February 2007 1:37 AM
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>     *Subject:* Re: [Offtopic] galloping glaciers
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>     Golly Stephen, also seems to be getting a lot thinner. I wish more
>     of our schools were sustainable and don't understand why we are
>     not taking more steps in that direction.
>
>     On 24/02/07, *stephen at melbpc.org.au
>     <mailto:stephen at melbpc.org.au>* < stephen at melbpc.org.au
>     <mailto:stephen at melbpc.org.au>> wrote:
>
>         A glacier in Norway ..
>
>         <http://envisense.org/glacsweb/photos/briks-panos/index.html
>         <http://envisense.org/glacsweb/photos/briks-panos/index.html>>
>
>         Regards people
>         Stephen Loosley
>         Victoria
>         Australia
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> --Margaret Mead