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title:  The Full Story

We sign up for 10:10

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The Ashden Directory has signed up for 10:10, the collective campaign to reduce carbon emissions by 10% by the end of 2010.
    Devised by the team behind Age of Stupid, 10:10 is supporting people and organisations in reducing their use energy in four areas: electricity from the national grid, fossil fuel use on site, road transport and air travel.
We will be consulting, among others, Ration Me Up, a ration book setting out how to live within your carbon means at home, issued by the The Ministry of Trying to Do Something About It and the New Economics Foundation with Clare Patey.

 

We'll start by calculating our current energy use, see where reductions can be made, and keep track of our progress here on the news page.

We are especially interested in the amount of electricity and fossil fuel use involved in supporting the internet, and in finding out how we might calculate the effects of our usage, and if possible reduce it.

Beyond that, we are three people working part-time from our own homes. Any meetings are arranged to coincide with other purposes, and most journeys are by train.

TASTY! organiser, Anita ASUarts, as part of her PhD research, is looking at the impact of internet usage and global IT, and will be advising us.

 

And, as shown in our video conference for 'Earth Matters Onstage' in Eugene Oregon, we are working on how more and different connections can be made without flying.

We have started talking with the companies listed on the Directory, to see how they are reducing their energy usage.

One of the companies, Angela Knowles' Fool Story, is using a carbon-negative, green web-hosting company, EZPZ hosting. EZPZ have invested in 110% of carbon offsets, including supporting a wind-power project in Karnataka, India.

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MOMO's chip-oil fueled car
Another company, MOMO Theatre, has gone to a 100% renewable tariff on electricity and changed their touring vehicle to one that runs off bio-diesel, from waste-chip oil. Even the oil has a tiny carbon footprint, as the processing plant is just a few miles away from their base.

The Green Light Trust has also signed up for the 10:10 campaign. You can read about their very green building in our directory.

The Nutmeg Puppet Company is now using Anglia Printing Services, based very near them in Beccles. The printers have won numerous awards and have called "one of the greenest printing companies in the country" by Printing World Magazine.

The Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy have also joined the 10:10 campaign.

More on our progress here soon.

title:  Headlines

»  We sign up for 10:10
 
»  The Drama Review calls for submissions
 
»  Symposia & conferences:
Planetary Breakdown - Autonomous Futures - 10 March
The Six Senses of the Director - 9-18 April
 
»  Events:
'...Louder than bombs' : Art, Action & Activism - Feb-March 2010
AV Festival - 5 - 14 March
UNCIVILISATION: The Dark Mountain Festival - 28 - 30 May
 
»  Opportunities:
Call for papers - theatre, food and Commedia dell'Arte - 2 April
Call for Proposals - Towards an Eco-Aesthetic (Denmark) - for 2011
The Arctic Circle Residencies - Oct 2010
 
»  Workshops and labs:
The Six Senses of the Director - 9 - 18 April
Ceremonies and celebrations - 13 - 17 April
 
»  Courses:
Art and Sustainability - 27 June - 10 July
 
»  Toolkit for green theatre choices from Mo'olelo
 
»  Books:
Theatre Materials
 
»  Green Sundays at Arcola Theatre - 7 March & 11 April
& Arcola picks up business award
 
»  New productions:
Pip's Wildlife Garden - Jan 2010
Ditch - 29 April - 3 May
 
»  Exhibitions:
High Tide - Mersey Basin - 1-19 March
RETHINK - to April 2010
Art, Ecology and the Economy - 23 Jan - 28 March
Ed Kashi photographs of Niger Delta - 8 Mar-3 April
Psychopomp - Marcus Coates - 15 Jan - 4 April
The
 
»  Ashden Directory shoots a film, hosts a video conference (and doesn't fly) for 'Earth Matters On Stage'
 
»  Commissions for 'Artists Taking the Lead' / Cultural Olympiad announced
 
»  Recent seminars, talks, conferences
 
»  Green Theatre Spaces
 
»  Ed Miliband annouces TippingPoint Commissions
 
»  Productions in development:
Paradise Lost
AD2050
 
»  Recent productions:
Origin of the Species, Vauxhall Pleasure, Grasses of a Thousand Colours, The Contingency Plan, River's Up, Amazônia, Another Kind of Silence, World at One, Zameen (Land), Moj of the Antarctic
 
»  London Mayor's Green Theatre Programme launched
 
»  News Archive:
LIFT archive online, Glyndebourne gets wind turbine, PLATFORM's climate change opera, Churchill's climate change libretto, Canadian government cites ashdendirectory.org.uk ... and more
 
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