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Post by axegas on Dec 6, 2019 13:38:18 GMT
Genuine question, what can Rovers do to help combat increasingly pressing concern of climate change?
We've taken a step in the right direction by getting rid of single use plastics but I think we can do more.
I have some suggestions, not sure of their feasibility but they're just some thoughts.
- Electrical car charging points at the Mem. - More bike racks to encourage Cycling to matches. - A program to encourage car pooling, walking and cycling to games for those that it is practically possible to do so. Perhaps small benefits/rewards for participants of this? - Only leave floodlights and lights inside buildings on for as long as they need to be. (Not sure if effort is already made to do this, if so fair enough) - Become the 5th professional sports club in the UK to sign up to the UN initiative on climate change. Perhaps more symbolic than anything but it's a step in the right direction. - Electronic advertising board and new screen to be powered in part by renewable energy sources ie solar panels or a small wind turbine. - More plant based products on the menu. I can appreciate some would roll their eyes at that one and I'm by no means advocating taking meat off the menu but expanding the menu to incorporate this isn't a bad shout. - Bristol Rovers Community trust to run sessions educating the local community about climate change and sustainability. - The Colony, if it is ever built, to be constructed in a way that takes into account the environment. - Small donations to projects such as tree planting to partially off-set the carbon emissions that the club produces.
Anything else to add to that?
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Post by chewbacca on Dec 6, 2019 13:51:55 GMT
Less League games, more Leasing Cup games.
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Post by pirate on Dec 6, 2019 14:00:18 GMT
Don't wear carbon shoes?
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Post by Marshy on Dec 6, 2019 14:06:46 GMT
Drink more beer? I know that won’t help but it sounds good to me.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Dec 6, 2019 14:23:22 GMT
Drink more beer? I know that won’t help but it sounds good to me. Unfortunately. C2H5OH + 3O2 ---> 2CO2 + 3H2O
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Dec 6, 2019 14:25:04 GMT
LED lights everywhere possible and light sensors so that lights cannot be left on anywhere is a fairly easy thing to do.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Dec 6, 2019 14:26:03 GMT
Drink more beer? I know that won’t help but it sounds good to me. Unfortunately. C2H5OH + 3O2 ---> 2CO2 + 3H2O What the f**k has Star Wars robots got to do with anything?
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Dec 6, 2019 14:28:48 GMT
LED lights everywhere possible and light sensors so that lights cannot be left on anywhere is a fairly easy thing to do. You can get LED floodlights, now. Of course, if we used sensors, the lights would go out whenever there was nothing much happening on the pitch.
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Post by axegas on Dec 6, 2019 14:29:09 GMT
Just seen that I’ve asked a question in a thread title. Does that qualify me for an automatic ban mods?
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Dec 6, 2019 14:36:17 GMT
Just seen that I’ve asked a question in a thread title. Does that qualify me for an automatic ban mods? Had you asked 'What's your favourite way Rovers can reduce their carbon footprint,' you'd be gone.
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Post by station on Dec 6, 2019 14:39:55 GMT
We are the GAS …………… we are the problem.
Taxi !!!!
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Dec 6, 2019 14:46:41 GMT
Just seen that I’ve asked a question in a thread title. Does that qualify me for an automatic ban mods? You wish. A more suitable punishment is to stay here and suffer Gaschat like the rest of us.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2019 14:58:22 GMT
Bamboo shin pads Shut the thatchers (farts) Solar PV on the roofs. Dont bl00dy laugh we do have some solid roofs at the ground!! Water retention for the groundsman, we have this to some degree currently but its naff. Better transport links organised by the club such as park and ride.
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Post by dragonfly on Dec 6, 2019 15:02:04 GMT
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution around 1850 the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere has increased from about 0.03% to around 0.04%. Both of these amounts are tiny and not worth getting excited about. The one degree Centigrade increase in temperature over that time is also tiny and represents the rebound effect from the end of the Little Ice Age which ran from about the 15th century to 1850 - 1900. The temperature rise has nothing to do with carbon dioxide or mankind. Bear in mind from previous climate model predictions over the last 30 years the temperature should have risen 4 to 7 degrees centigrade by now and the Maldives totally submerged and Snow a thing of the past in the UK. It simply has not happened and Carbon Dioxide is one of Man's best friends as vegetation/crop yields greatly increase with more CO2. We should be more aware of the prospects of a cooler World which could bring about famine and riots which happened during the Little Ice Age. So in relation to Bristol Rovers, reducing electricity use is a good thing but only in respect of financial prudence and responsibility over plastics is commendable.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Dec 6, 2019 15:07:18 GMT
Thanks Donald.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Dec 6, 2019 15:09:37 GMT
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution around 1850 the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere has increased from about 0.03% to around 0.04%. Both of these amounts are tiny and not worth getting excited about. The one degree Centigrade increase in temperature over that time is also tiny and represents the rebound effect from the end of the Little Ice Age which ran from about the 15th century to 1850 - 1900. The temperature rise has nothing to do with carbon dioxide or mankind. Bear in mind from previous climate model predictions over the last 30 years the temperature should have risen 4 to 7 degrees centigrade by now and the Maldives totally submerged and Snow a thing of the past in the UK. It simply has not happened and Carbon Dioxide is one of Man's best friends as vegetation/crop yields greatly increase with more CO2. We should be more aware of the prospects of a cooler World which could bring about famine and riots which happened during the Little Ice Age. So in relation to Bristol Rovers, reducing electricity use is a good thing but only in respect of financial prudence and responsibility over plastics is commendable. 'Tiny' and 'not worth getting excited about' are not exactly the same thing. (Cue cock jokes.)
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Post by matealotblue on Dec 6, 2019 15:22:09 GMT
I may be over simplifying things here and happy to be told where I am going wrong. But I was watching the David Attenborough programme on tv the other day (and a wonderfully filmed and beautiful programme it is). However, this Guru of all things Eco was talking quite nonchantly in that programme about Australia and how, gawd knows how may years ago, it had broken away from the Southern Antartic and moved north etc etc. Now this happened long before any climate change warriors were on this planet and Humankind had had any detrimental impact on the climate. I got to wondering if that happened today how everyone would be talking doom and gloom, end of the world is nigh stuff. (As they are I guess) My point is this world has changed over squillions of years and will continue to change in the future, whether we are here or not. Mother Nature has far more power than any one alive on this earth. Whilst it can not be denied we have had an (negative?) impact on the environment of the planet I struggle to work out how much of an impact we actually have had when things like this have happened many millenia before we arrived? And will likely continue to happen in the future.
PS - That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to do things better as per OP but just trying to get a context on where it all fits together
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Post by dragonfly on Dec 6, 2019 15:30:28 GMT
Nothing to do with Donald's view since I have held this view on CO2 since 2008 when I began researching the available data to reach the above conclusion.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2019 15:31:20 GMT
A brand new state of the art stadium. Simples!
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Post by dragonfly on Dec 6, 2019 15:32:37 GMT
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution around 1850 the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere has increased from about 0.03% to around 0.04%. Both of these amounts are tiny and not worth getting excited about. The one degree Centigrade increase in temperature over that time is also tiny and represents the rebound effect from the end of the Little Ice Age which ran from about the 15th century to 1850 - 1900. The temperature rise has nothing to do with carbon dioxide or mankind. Bear in mind from previous climate model predictions over the last 30 years the temperature should have risen 4 to 7 degrees centigrade by now and the Maldives totally submerged and Snow a thing of the past in the UK. It simply has not happened and Carbon Dioxide is one of Man's best friends as vegetation/crop yields greatly increase with more CO2. We should be more aware of the prospects of a cooler World which could bring about famine and riots which happened during the Little Ice Age. So in relation to Bristol Rovers, reducing electricity use is a good thing but only in respect of financial prudence and responsibility over plastics is commendable. 'Tiny' and 'not worth getting excited about' are not exactly the same thing. (Cue cock jokes.) I tried to make it nob proof but you have exposed a loophole.
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