Living Sustainably Think Global Act Local

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Living SustainablyThink Global Act Local

• Your ecological footprint
• Food
• Shelter Designing a building
• Shelter How we run our homes
• Lifestyles Transport, Goods and Services
• Taking Action

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What makes us happy and is it sustainable?
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Write down five things that make you genuinely
happy
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Northern Ireland sustainable Lifestyles

• Transport and travel
• Goods
• Waste
• Food
• Housing

Mans needs are finite and can be met, but
mans desire is unlimited. GANDHI
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Aviation Shipping

• GLOBAL TOTALS FOR CO2 EMMISSIONS
• Aviation 2 - 700m tonnes
• Shipping 4-5 - 800m tonnes
• (90 of the worlds goods are carried by sea)

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Car travel

• In the UK an average person-
• Travels 6,900 miles
• Spends 360 hours driving
• 41 of the total distance travelled is accounted
  for by shopping trips
• Travel accounts for 15 of the average households
  weekly expenditure
• Average use of petrol per person per year-
• American 7.5 tonnes
• European 3 tonnes
• Bangladesh ½ tonne

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Average size of houses

• EU 87m2
• France 105m2
• Germany 109m2
• NI 117m2
• Fermanagh 131m2
• USA 197m2

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Consumer behaviour

• Our present western consumer
• lifestyles are threatening the
• planets future.
• More sustainable lifestyles cannot
• be obtained without marked
• changes in consumer attitudes and
• consumer behaviour.

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Why do we throw things away that still work?

• There are three main reasons why we discard
  products before
• they reach breakeven point
• Technological obsolescence, when the functional
  qualities of existing products are inferior to
  newer models
• Economic obsolescence, e.g. too expensive to
  repair
• Psychological obsolescence, when "we are no
  longer attracted to products or satisfied by them"

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The WEEE Man is made from the amount of waste
electrical and electronic products that an
average UK citizen YOU will throw away in
YOUR lifetime, if YOU carry on disposing of
products at the current rate
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Ways to improve the product life cycle
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Waste
In Northern Ireland we produce nearly 1,000000
tonnes of household waste per year each
household contributes around 1 tonne