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Low v High
Hi h Carbon
C b
Lif t l
Lifestyles
Implied criticism
Green v Violet
Good v Bad
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Specifying
p y g for a
low carbon
lifestyle
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Lifestyles: Scope
• Time
• Economies
• Travel & Transport
• Drinkingg Water,, Drink,, Food
• Material Resources
• Buildings
• Building Services, Water, Heating/cooling
ventilation
• External works & Landscape
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Lifestyles: Time
• Time = Money
• Slow v Fast
• Family time v Commuting time
• In
I your face
f smartt meters
t v ¼ly
¼l bills
bill
• Smart meters v STO or DD
• Awareness v carelessness
• Manual v automatic
• Reading manuals v Intuition & error
 Lifestyles: Economies
• Community v Independence
– Developing community awareness, spirit & involvement
– Neighbourhood watch might be the start: better reasons?

• Barter, Acorns, Lets v money

– Shared skills and resources for community benefits
– Credits v cash transfers
– Tax man wants his cut either way

• Local v cheapest
– Local support of local economy and employment

• Buy British v EU Procurement Rules & WTO Rules

• Fair pay v Pound shops
Lifestyles: Travel & Transport
• Solar thaw out v chemical defrost (car windscreen)
• Walking Bus & Cycling v 4x4
• Cycling routes & racks v congestion & pollution
• Car Sharing & Transport plan v Lone drivers
• Public transport v Car door to door
• Pootling
g along
g v Thrashing
g it
• Enjoy the Journey v destination and ETA
• Explore UK v Fly the world
• Local v imported transported
 Lifestyles: Drinking Water
• Tap water v French green bottle water
• Tap water v filtered tap water
• Filtered tap water v Bottled water
• Tap filtered chilled water v Bottled
• Local
L l bottled
b ttl d v imported
i t dbbottled
ttl d
• Starch based bottles v p
plastic bottles
• Reusable bottles v recyclable bottles
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Lifestyles: Drink
• Reusable bottles v throw away
• Flip top bottles v waste bottle caps/tops
• Reusable milk bottle v recyclable carton
or plastic
• Reusable beer bottle v brand shape
• Reusable glass or plastic coke bottle v
recycled
l d
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 Lifestyle: Food Quality
• Taste v Appearance
• Seasoning g to taste v Added Salt and Sugar
g
• Full stomach v fat belly
• Brain food & Healthy y v Cheap
p & Fattening
g
• Fresh v Frozen
• Organic
g v intensive chemical
• Natural v Genetic Modified
• Free range
g v Battery y
• Vegetarian v animals, fish and birds
 Lifestyle: Food Miles
• Seasonal v imported out of season
• Local & Food East v Flown in
• Fairtrade v International exploitation
• Indigenous: nectar bars for pollinators v
intrusive
p
• Allotments v Supermarkets
• Future Farmers co-operative v
p
Supermarkets
• Farm kitchens v High street chain
Lifestyle: Resources v Waste
• Resourceful v Squandering
• Thrift v Excess (to waste)
• What you want v what is bundled
• Charity gifting v dumping
• Materials Exchange v dumping
• For the job v in a White van for a PJ (privte job)
• PJ private job v dumping
• Pavement Swaps v Yard Sales
• Freecycling v Ebay
• Ebay v dumping
Lifestyle: Resource v Waste
• Segregation v mixed waste
• Composting v landfill
• Topsoil enrichment v landfill
• Recycle v Waste > buy recycled
• Recycled
R l d v Virgin
Vi i (P(Primary)
i )
• Secondary
y v Virgin
g ((Primary)
y)
Sustainable Education for a
future
• Childhood for play v leaning too soon
• Education for life v qualifications
• Life skills v exam skills
• Appropriate
pp p curriculum v irrelevance to life or
work
• Life heads v Eggheads (career in quizzes)
• Education for students v for assessors &
league tables
• Education for life or career
 Sustainable Trainings for a
future
• Informal life long learning v stiff curriculum
• Education for both work or higher education
• Education for both trades or professions
• Job skills v p
poetry
yp philosophy
p y art and bullshit
(Architecture)
• Skills funding for training v buildings (or none
att all)
ll)
• Student fees to pay lecturers v building more
buildings
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 Lifestyle Education
• Education for a sustainable future
• Every educational opportunity should be
t k
taken
• Education must nurture:
– Problem solving
– Care and attention to detail
– Q
Questioning
i i status quo, d driving
i i change
h
– Wastelessness & Resourcefulness
– St
Stewardship
d hi
– Environmental protection
 Lifestyles Buildings:
• Winter Gardens Sun spaces v Heated Conservatories
• Weather lobby v Portico or Porte Cochere
• Insulated v heated
• Solar Shaded v Air Conditioned Cooled
• Solar Shading v Architectural frippery
• Airtight
g v cold,, windy,
y, noisy
y unusable spaces
p
• Moisture mass v extractors or air conditioning
– Or mould, very relevant to fuel poverty

• Thermal mass v lightweight

– Appropriate heating/cooling to suit building fabric weight
 Lifestyles Services
• Natural v artificial
– Lighting,
g g, heating,
g, ventilation,, cooling
g
• Appropriate services v EcoBling
• Energy
E efficient
ffi i t building
b ildi v EcoBling
E Bli
• Passive design v mechanical/electrical
services
• Passive & Active v mechanical services
• Renewable with alarms v mains supply
 Lifestyles Services: water
• Busy plumber v Dripping taps
• Short showers v deep baths
• Bath v Hot tub
• Generous Showers v Power Showers
• Water saving taps v water hammer
• Aerated/Sprinkler v percussion / push taps
• Foaming soap dispenser v Liquid soap
• Rain forest v Soya plantation (liquid soap)
• Proximity taps v germs or soap residues
Lifestyle Services Heating/Cooling
• Cheap Insulation v expensive heating/cooling
plant
• Airtightness
Ai ti ht v heating
h ti
• Cold bridge elimination v heating
• Solar orientation v heating
• Solar Gains v heating
• Thermal mass v heating and AC Cooling
• Purging
g g heat byy passive
p venting
g v AC Cooling
g
• Solar shading v Air conditioning
Lifestyle Services Ventilation
• Fresh air v Conditioned Air
• Open windows v Mechanical ventilation
• Stack Effect v Mechanical Ventilation,
or Heaters
• Wind pressure v Electric Fans or Pumps
• Purging heat by passive venting v Air-
conditioning
diti i C Cooling
li
Lifestyle Services: Lighting
• Sun & Daylight v artificial lighting
• Eye relaxing views v solar control blinds
• PIR detection v switching
• Zoned lighting at glass v all on all time
• Task
T k li
lighting
hti v uniformly
if l high
hi h light
li ht llevell
• Timed lighting
g g v 24 hours
• Alarm triggered safe lighting v 24 hours
 Lifestyle External works and
landscape:
• Daylight & moonlighting v floodlight
• Observation v indicator lights
• Food Growing v Decoration
• Indigenous species v exotic
• Drought
D ht ttolerant
l t v sprinkler
i kl & irrigation
i i ti
g ponds
• Natural swimming p v Heated p
pools
• Clay lined ponds v plastics membrane
 Lifestyle External works and
landscape
• Bike Parking v Car standing
• Permeable Car standing v surge run-off
• Harvested Rainwater reuse v sewer
• Ground source heat p pumpsp in ppavement
• Pavement solar panels v melting tarmac
• Bus drop off v 4x4 jam
• Walking bus v bus full of blobs
 Lifestyle Landscape & nature
• Green Grids v Isolated and unsafe
– Paths, cycleways, bridleways linking green spaces
• Blue Ribbons v isolated and unsafe
– Rivers, canals linking lakes and ponds
• Green grids & blue ribbons crisscross
• Natural Ribbons v isolated pockets
• Hinterlands around farm land v field/hedge
• Echo
Echo-location
location flight paths v intermittent
hedge
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Lifestyle: Sports
• Leisure for health v bike shed smoking
• Play spaces v no ball games, sports, fun, life
• Healthy competition v equally dull world
• Healthyy competition
p v bullying
y g
• Summer track & field v winter Gymnasium
• Winter gymnasium v sick notes
• Cool kit v Too cool to be seen alive in it
• Label less kit v brand snobbery
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Low v High
Hi h Carbon
C b
Lif t l
Lifestyles
How may Vs in lifestyle
Implied criticism
Green v Violet
Good v Bad