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Reap Petite - The community footprint calculator
REAP petite is a software tool developed by SEI-Y to help communities calculate their ecological or carbon footprint and test the effectiveness of a number of footprint reducing pledges.
Footprint tools have previously been developed for businesses, schools, regional governments and local authorities. There are also a number of individual footprint calculators available on-line. At present, there are no footprint calculators designed specifically for use with cimmunity groups. REAP-petite fills this gap.
REAP petite is designed to be used by a community or with a community. Schools or voluntary groups might use the tool themselves as part of their environmental activities. It could be used to support campaigning, fund-raising, awareness raising, engaging with the local council or simply as an exercise in itself. It can also be used by local government or charity groups to support engagement with communities and more importantly to collect 'bottom-up' data on consumption activities. REAP petite can also function to support the targeting of policies and to assess their importance.
REAP petite can measure actual footprint improvement within a community by simply resurveying the community at a later time to see the impacts of change.
The use of REAP in Scotland has been reviewed by the EPSRC ISSUES Project who look at urban sustainability.
"The Sustainable Urban Environments Programme is an EPSRC funded portfolio of research looking at ways of improving sustainability in the urban environment." (taken from www.urbansustainabilityexchange.org.uk, July 2010)
The full report titled "The Process of Knowledge Transfer from Researcher and Policy Maker to End-User" provides an analysis of the footprinting work done in Scotland and the use of REAP by Scottish Local Authorities. It is available here.
REAP Version 2
Please contact us to get your latest copy of REAP. Read the full news article by clicking more below to find out about the updates and what the type of licence you require.
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REAP Petite has been updated and improved.
To download a free copy click here
If you are a license holder, contact SEI to get your new version.
SEI have just released a policy brief on Scotland's Footprint.
Our study has shown that Scotland's carbon footprint has grown by 11 per cent since 1992.
The figure includes greenhouse gases released overseas during the production of goods later consumed in Scotland and so is the most accurate gauge of the country's emissions to date.
While emissions generated in Scotland fell by 13 percent between 1995 and 2004, when trade is taken account, greenhouse gases rose by 11 per cent over the same period.
The full policy brief can be found on SEI's website.
An article has also be published in the Sunday Herald and can be found here.