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‘The Irish BET’ is On!
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Monday September 15, 2003 18:19 by Chris O'Keeffe - Irish BET, gluaiseacht office at irishbet dot org IrishBET, c/o gluaiseacht, Guide & Scout Centre, Bennettsbridge Rd, Kilkenny 00 353 56 77 56 796
Schools throughout Ireland are preparing for a bet with the government to highlight that more can be done to reduce harmful emissions of greenhouse gases in Ireland. The schools will bet with the Department for the Environment that they can reduce their energy consumption (hence CO2 emissions) a rate faster than the government proposes for the country as a whole. An 8% reduction in eight months as opposed to the government’s target of 8% in eight years was set for the schools in this year’s environmental project ‘the Irish BET’. To take part in ‘the BET’ schools must first measure, then actively reduce and finally re-measure, their waste production and energy & water consumption. These figures are equated into C02 -savings by the students to see if their schools have won the bet. Achieving the 8% target has proven easy for some participating schools who achieved up to 15% reductions in recent years. If the schools successfully win their bet they will have a party thrown for them, but if they lose they must complete another environmental project chosen by the Minister for the Environment. It has been shown, however, that without expensive energy saving technology, energy savings of up to 10% can be achieved in most homes and schools. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5Best of luck sounds good
nice to see sth with some many good things to be said about it actually happening!
If they're good enough I'll lay €100,000 on the schools
Good idea! Start with shutting up all the gasbags and hotair that run this country in Dail Eireinn
sounds great... and i hope the best for the pupils... if the gridlocked gas-guzzling Irish public can learn anything it could be from the positive examples set by their children....
keep us posted!