Cut Your Carbon
Cut Your Carbon is a sister company of ech2o which specialises in low carbon training for schools using the Cut the Carbon board game, carbon credit cards, balloons and dinosaurs. The training is fun and informative and enables pupils and teachers to become more carbon literate.
The Cut Your Carbon game explores the connection between global warming, CO2 and lifestyle choices and introduces the concept of an annual carbon allowance, a vital tool in changing behaviour. Participants learn through playing the game, group work and guided teaching, how to reduce their carbon footprint towards the level of global equality proposed by the Global Commons Institute's Contraction and Convergence Model. This model, supported by the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Control) and Governments across the world, proposes that citizens of the industrialised nations need to cut their CO2 emissions on average by 80% to 90% from current levels whilst people in the developing nations increase theirs, until a global per capita level of 1 tonne of CO2 emissions per year is reached.
Cut Your Carbon has been played extensively throughout the UK in schools, colleges, youth clubs and at community events. We have also played it in schools in India, Pakistan and New Zealand. Cut Your Carbon won one of UnLtd's five Green Living awards at Glastonbury in 2008.