30. What does a Finn’s
carbon footprint consist of?
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31. John Webster
• Film director
• Lives in an ecological
house designed and
constructed by himself,
located close to the
railways
• The house is heated with
geothermal energy and
with a fireplace
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32. Tytti Määttä
• County manager in Vaala
• Owns no car, even if there
is practically no collective
traffic available in Kainuu
• Lives a kilometer away
from her workplace and
walks there every day
• Vaala muncipality has
shared cars to use for work
related trips
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33. Tuomas Toivonen
and Nene Tsuboi
• Tuomas Toivonen is an
architecht and vocalist of
Giant Robot, Nene Tsuboi
is an artist
• They live in Kallio, Helsinki
in a 36m² sized apartment
located 3 metro stops from
their work place
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34. GFDL
Till Lindemann
• Vocalist of Rammstein
• Lives in Berlin with his
daughter and bikes home
on the empty streets of
Berlin after performing for
tens of thousands of
people
• Biking creates no
greenhouse gas emissions
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35. Erkki Kalmari
• Farmer from Laukaa
who produces biogas from
his cows’ manure to fuel his
car
• Maintains his own biogas
reactor and sells gas to
others
• Biogas is one of the most
environmentally
friendly fuels
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36. Thom Yorke
• Vocalist of Radiohead
• A vegetarian
• A vegetarian diet produces
significantly less
greenhouse gas emissions
than a mixed diet
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37. Heidi Kettunen
• A 20 year old vegan from
the city of Helsinki
• For ecological and ethical
reasons, does not eat
meat, fish, dairy or egg
products.
• Producing dairy products
creates also a lot of
greenhouse gas emissions
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38. Janne Länsipuro
• A farmer cultivating organic
products in Isnäs in
Southern Finland
• Cultivating organic products
does not consume energy
demanding nitrogenous
fertilizers
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39. Maija Kaunismaa
• Travelled to Asia through
Russia and China by train
• Long journeys by plane
produce approximately ten
times more emissions than
equally long journeys by
train
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40. Seija Lukkala
• The Managing Director
and founder of a company
called Globe Hope which
produces and sells
ecological clothes made
from recycled materials
• Globe Hope has drawn a
lot of attention to
recyclable fashion and
given examples of how
textiles can be reused
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41. “Porkkanamafia”
(=Carrot mob)
• Carrot mob brings
customers to companies
which commit to use extra
income generated on
environmentally friendly
investments
• Everybody wins:
• Company’s image improves
• Consumers can have an
influence
• The state of the
environment improves
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42. Hanna Laiho
• Exercises in a circus group
• Activities and sports which
do not require special
equipment, heated sheds
or long distance travelling
by private car are usually
climate friendly
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43. Truck made
of carton
• Candidates for
matriculation exam of
visual arts high school in
Tampere created their truck
from carton in their final
school day (traditional day
in Finland to go around the
city by trucks)
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52. In the future many
things
will change:
• housing
• transportation
• food
• travelling
• consumption
• leisure-time
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53. Where are the changes
carried out?
• Politics, municipalities and governments?
• Business and trade, services and industry?
• Science, technology and research?
• Civic society?
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54. Politics: heros
• The state of California
committed to the Kyoto
protocol to reduce
emissions although the
United States had not
ratified the protocol
• The state sued car
manufacturers because
their highly energy
consuming cars contribute
to climate change
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55. Civil society:
campaigning
• Aims for a national climate
bill, a binding contract for
politicians to reduce
emissions
• In the UK a Climate bill
came into effect in 2008
after more than 130 000
citizens demanded it
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56. Politics: climate
negotiations
• The first recognizable
convention over climate
change issues was signed
in Rio de Janeiro in 1992
• In 2009 there was a
significant climate
conference in Copenhagen
• Negotiations between the
industrialised and
developing countries are
challenging
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58. Civil society:
information
services
• NGOs share information
and publish briefings to
several target groups
• “Ilmari” information project
to schools was established
in 2003 and is an ongoing
project
• “ilmasto.org” has
distributed climate change
information
since 1998
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59. Business:
eco labels
• Companies now use eco
labels because consumers
demand and favor such
products
• Footprint calculations for
groceries is ongoing and
develops all the time
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60. Business:
new products
• Carbon emissions for oat
raw material are 360 g/kg
• Carbon emissions for
milk raw material are 1000
g/kg
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65. Photos:
ice berg: feffef@flickr animal husbandry: docman@flickr
dried earth: ozyman@flickr steel plant: riffraff1@flickr
motory: atwatervillage@flickr forest destruction: visionshare@flickr
laundry: clemente@flickr Thom Yorke: vtrslv@flickr
small cyclist: hop-frog@flickr Carrot mob: marinadi@flickr
Ferrish wheel: venegas@flickr bookstore: adamskev@flickr
Schwarzenegger: thomashawk@flickr
assembly hall: unfccc@flickr
Velib city bikes: carthesian@flickr
Text
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no jobs: mundoo@flickr Text
radish: sea-turtle@flickr
tapes: shadows_and_light@flickr
Erkki Kalmari: Erkki Kalmari
energy production: mattimattila@flickr
Janne Länsipuro: Janne Länsipuro
rice: ricephotos@flickr
Seija Lukkala: Globe Hope
cars and wind turbines: pagedooley@flickr
Hanna Laiho: Hanna Laiho
Finnish winter scenery: jskoole@flickr
girl in a city: lugolounge@flickr
children in school: cambodia4kidsorg@flickr
running kids: landahlauts@flickr
retired: mcohen.chromiste@flickr
skate ramp: clarkmackey@flickr
Kyung-wha Kang: us-mission@flickr
hug: Nuorten Akatemia
condom: Koshiro.kun@flickr
fridge magnets: sonson@flickr
the big ask: polttavakysymys@flickr
Excluding the pictures, these Ilmari-materials
are public domain and free to be used without
any conditions
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