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Opportunity: Carbon Reduction Project Manager

February 9, 2014Creative Carbon Scotland, news, Open CallsCarbon Reduction, Carbon Reduction Project Manager, Creative Carbon Scotland, Creative Carbon Scotland Creative Carbon Scotland, Sustainable Scotland

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Creative Carbon Scotland is looking for a Carbon Reduction Project Manager to join its team.Â Up to Â£27,000 pa, with up to 3% pension contributions. Fixed term to 31 March 2015 with the potential for extension.

Deadline 5pm 17 February 2014. Interviews in Edinburgh 28 February 2014.

Creative Carbon Scotland works with arts and cultural organisations across Scotland to help them measure, report and reduce their carbon emissions and engage them in playing a full part in shaping a sustainable Scotland. We are looking for an experienced carbon manager to train and support arts organisations and individuals in carbon reporting and reduction and to maintain and develop our innovative web-based resource the Green Arts Portal. The CRPM will run training workshops and offer email, phone and face-to-face support. They may engage and manage freelancers to support them and will work as part of a small team based in Edinburgh, although remote working may be possible. Regular travel throughout Scotland will be required.

Click hereÂ to download the job description and application details.

Click hereÂ to download our Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form.

For more information please contact Ben Twist at ben@creativecarbonscotland.com or on 0131 529 7909

CCS is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered charity no SC042687

Image:Â This Land, courtesy of Edinburgh Art FestivalÂ http://www.edinburghartfestival.com/

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the publicâ€™s emotions, values and ideas.

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CURATING CITIES: SYDNEY TO COPENHAGEN CONFERENCE

November 10, 2011newsCarbon Reduction, Cities Project, City Of Sydney, Climate Change, Clover Moore, Copenhagen Conference, Creative Thinkers, Curating, Design Educators, Educators Association, Experimental Arts, Frank Jensen, Fundamental Domains, List Of Speakers, Public Art, Sustainable Cities, Sydney Lord Mayor, Urban Ecology, Urban Sustainability, Water Food

Drawing on case studies from around the world, the Curating Cities project assesses the ongoing and potential contribution of public art to eco-sustainable development and the benefits to Sydney and cities in general.Â The project provides a rubric for public art in relation to the fundamental domains of sustainable planning: energy, water, food and waste.

A vital part of the project, the Curating Cities: Sydney to Copenhagen Conference will address the demands on the cultural sector in the face of climate change; namely the need to develop sustainable cities and raise questions about the role of public art in urban ecology. Bringing together artists, designers, curators, educators and creative thinkers the conference will propose new strategies of change toward the fundamentals of urban sustainability.

The conference organized by the National Institute for Experimental Arts, UNSW in association with the City of Sydney, the Danish Arts Agency and the Visual Arts and Design Educators Association. The conference will be opened by Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore and Lord Mayor of Copenhagen Frank Jensen. For more details and full list of speakers please visitÂ http://curatingcities.org/conferences/curating-cities-sydney-copenhagen

CURATING CITIES: SYDNEY TO COPENHAGEN EXHIBITION

The Curating Cities: Sydney to Copenhagen Conference is held in conjunction with a keynote exhibition that highlights the fundamentals of sustainability: carbon reduction, consumption, and food production. The exhibition (17 Nov – 18 Dec 2011) will be a showcase five influential projects that evoke the city as part of an ecology affected by human action. For more info please visitÂ http://curatingcities.org/exhibitions/curating-cities-sydney-copenhagen

Our project website is: www.curatingcities.org.

Collaboration in the face of chill winds

March 16, 2009news, RSA Arts & Ecology5 Million, Anthony Giddens, Arts Council England, Bacteria, British Antarctic Survey, Brodie, Carbon Reduction, Catalyst, Chandelier, Chill Winds, Climate Change, Economic Predictions, Exemplar, Jolts, National Glass Centre, Pledge, Sea Levels, Subject Matter, Uk Population, Word Ecology

Anne Brodie @ National Glass Centre, Sunderland

This week has brought profound jolts with respect to political and economic predictions on climate change, the first from Rajendra Pachauri, leading the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He seriously doubts that the US will be able to make the pledge needed on carbon reduction. This is frightening given the latest revision on sea levels which has been given wide press coverage this week. Scientists think their rise will be nearly twice as much as they previously reckoned, which would be disastrous for an estimated 600 million people (the UK population was 60.5 million in 2006).

This is why increasing numbers of artist and arts organisations are focusing on the Arctic and the Antarctic for their subject matter.

The most recent exhibition relating to the Antarctic is at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland. You have until 29 March to visit it. Anne Brodie has created a chandelier using a huge block of ice from the Antarctic lit not by electricity but by bacteria. Itâ€™s creativity and collaboration that we need and Brodieâ€™s work is an exemplar of both, supported as it is by the British Antarctic Survey, Arts Catalyst and Arts Council England as well of course by the National Glass Centre â€“ together presumably with the advice and support of scientists and technicians.

Anthony Giddens wrote in The Guardian on Wednesday 11 March of the â€œcollaboration essential to coping with climate changeâ€ (more on this in his new book The Politics of Climate Change which will be available in a weekâ€™s time). Itâ€™s collaboration â€“ relationships â€“ which makes me sure that the word â€œecologyâ€ is the right one for our centre here and of which we need so much more. We have a lot to learn on the subject from artists.

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