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CI2100

 

Climate Change

 

 

Introduction

 

           Welcome to this wiki site on Climate Change. Climate change is being bandied about by politicians and environmentalists alike. Deforestation, intercontinental shipping vessels emptying their tanks at sea, toxic waste dumping, transglobal plant migration (see Japanese knot weed); and throughout it all people have been saying that some thing should be done. While others are saying things like "so what can I do?" or "I'm just one person",  there is a lot that one person can do! Ranging from the person who turns off the lights to the one who puts the brick in the toilet cistern, from the two degrees reduced on the thermostat to the composting of food waste (potato peelings etc.). By making a few small changes to the way round that we live a win-win situation can be obtained. Fresher air, cleaner water and good quality food for our children, even our children need help to ween them off the throw away society and on to the more environmentally and health friendly alternatives.

 

Scope

 

Our starting scope will be to educate and inform people and businesses within the Kingston area. This will include hints and tips on increasing recycling and reducing energy consumption. If it is successful we believe these measures could be expanded nationwide and even globally. 

 

 

          Aims

Our main aims are:

 

• Raising as much awareness as possible within the local community
• Educating people as to what they can do to help
• Reducing landfill use in the local area
• Increase recycling
• Lower Energy consumption
• Increase litter picking and improve bin collection for local businesses around Kingston area
• To have less vehicles on the road and thereby lower emissions
• Increase awareness of availability of local e-cycling schemes in the area

 

 

 

         Objectives & Goals

Our main goals as we see them:

 

• To increase recycling awareness in children by at least 15% in the first 6 months
• To provide a web based resource for the community providing recycling and energy efficiency information
• To reduce the amount of waste going to landfill from both residential and business by 10% within 1 year
• To reduce the amount of waste coming from the road and nearby areas by 5% in the 2nd year
• More energy saving street lights and low energy diode lighting for advertising 
• To increase the amount of recycling bins in the area and more frequent collections so that people will litter less

 

 

Sustainable Benefits

                    Should include: 

 

• A greener and more energy efficient community
• Less waste going to landfill
• Higher level of awareness of environmental issues in the community
• A long standing web resource for the community

 

 

Assumptions

In order for our project to produce pleasing results:

 

• Local schools will encourage use of web resources and the increase in recycling
• Local council will provide recycling faculties
• Businesses will co-operate in increasing their recycling
• People will welcome the advice given, and give feedback about the service for later improvement

 

Demonstrating Success

In order to measure success we will:

 

• Talk to local council and examine their website to obtain landfill stats
• Speak with local schools to survey whether our message has got across successfully
• Monitor website visits as well as providing an on-line survey
• Speak with the people around the area by going to residents homes to get feedback on what they think

 

Final PID for group B5

Group B5 PID.pdf  

 

Deliverable A

Presentation

 

Contribution

Robert Mifsud - K0725742 - 25%

Winston Barnes - K0717853 - 25%

Thinesh Thiruchelvam  -  K0821594 - 25%

Toyyib Raji - K0813816 - 25%

    

Deliverable B

 

Strategy and Methods

 

Budget and the prototype for the project 

 

Contribution

Robert Mifsud - K0725742 - 25%

Winston Barnes - K0717853 - 25%

Thinesh Thiruchelvam  -  K0821594 - 25%

Toyyib Raji - K0813816 - 25%

 

 

Deliverable C

 

Work Breakdown and Project Planning

 

Project schedule and Gantt chart for February – April

 

Gnatt Chart for May to October

 

Contribution

Robert Mifsud - K0725742 - 33.3%

Winston Barnes - K0717853 - 33.3%

Toyyib Raji - K0813816 - 33.3%

 

Deliverable D

 

Risk Analysis and Contingency Plans 

 

Contribution

Robert Mifsud - K0725742 - 25%

Winston Barnes - K0717853 - 25%

Thinesh Thiruchelvam  -  K0821594 - 25%

Toyyib Raji - K0813816 - 25%

 

 

Deliverable E 

 

Project Review

 

Revised Budget and Prototype

 

Contribution

Robert Mifsud - K0725742 - 25%

Winston Barnes - K0717853 - 25%

Thinesh Thiruchelvam  -  K0821594 - 25%

Toyyib Raji - K0813816 - 25%

 

Team Member Page 

 

Notes