{"id":1705,"date":"2010-05-26T10:55:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T14:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2010-05-26T12:41:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T16:41:58","slug":"toronto-district-school-boards-climate-change-action-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2010\/05\/toronto-district-school-boards-climate-change-action-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto District School Board’s Climate Change Action Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been working with group of enthusiastic parents in our neighbourhood over the past year on a plan to make our local elementary school a prototype for low-energy buildings. As our discussions evolved, we ended up with a much more ambitious vision: to use the building and grounds of the school for renewable power generation projects (using solar, and geothermal energy) that could potentially power many of the neighbouring houses and condos – i.e. make the school a community energy hub<\/em>. And of course, engage the kids in the whole process, so that they learn about climate and energy, even as we attempt to build solutions.<\/p>\n

In parallel with our discussions, the school board has been beefing up its ambitions too, and has recently adopted a new Climate Change Action Plan<\/a>. It makes for very interesting reading. I like the triple goal: mitigation<\/strong>, adaptation<\/strong> and education<\/strong>, largely because the last of these, education, is often missing from discussions about how to respond to climate change, and I firmly believe that the other two goals depend on it. The body of the report is a set of ten proposed actions to cut carbon emissions from the buildings and transportation operated by the school board, funded from a variety of sources (government grants, the feed-in tariff<\/a> program, operational savings, carbon credits, etc). The report still needs some beefing up on the education front, but it’s a great start!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been working with group of enthusiastic parents in our neighbourhood over the past year on a plan to make our local elementary school a prototype for low-energy buildings. As our discussions evolved, we ended up with a much more ambitious vision: to use the building and grounds of the school for renewable power generation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}