The 1 Million Ton Campaign is a basic concept: if everyone took the initiative to make 1 change: 1 simple approach to their life style.. by reducing your personal carbon foot print by only 10% - this is all is going to take to make a difference
If we wait for the politicians - wait for the major manufacturing and resource blue chip companies to do something.. it will be too late to make a difference
So how does Pivot Stove have anything to do here.. back in 2006 we made a decision to advertise the testing results of all wood heaters.
These emissions are listed on every page on our web site - and on every heater in our showrooms - each heater we list the emissions and efficiency results. - this is managed by the Australian Home Heating Association ( AHHA )
The Australian Home Heating Association has instituted a robust Certification Procedure to ensure that wood heater models offered for sale comply with the current Australian/New Zealand Standards AS/NZS 4012/4013.
All wood heaters listed comply with:
AS/NZS 4012:1999 "Domestic solid fuel burning appliances - Method for determination
of power output and efficiency"
and
AS/NZS 4013:1999 "Domestic solid fuel burning appliances - Method for determination
of flue gas emission"
These results are publicly available on the Australian Home Heating Association web site www.homeheat.com.au
The Australian standard requires heaters to have a maximum of 4grms of Co2 per 1Kg of wood burnt - at Pivot we are promoting heaters in our Low Carbon Program any heater that is 2grm or less.. promoting heaters that are half the Australian Standards
With an estimated 4.5 to 5Million ton of wood used each season for Australian wood heating systems: by choosing a heater that produces half the emissions... you will make a difference in the impact
I am proud to have the opportunity in my lifetime to not only have the knowledge that WE CAN make the changes for our children - but have the resources in my hands to do something about this
If you buy a heater from Pivot or not.. this is not the concept here - but to make it known that there is a choice you can make that will impact for the future
Ask: with your next purchase - what is the emission of the new heater you are looking at : by a simple choice of buying a heater with 2gms or less - this alone will reduce your carbon foot print (over a 15year life expectancy) of 10ton less of carbon emissions
Ask: with your next purchase - what is the efficiency of the new heater you are looking at ; a heater with 45% efficiency compared to a heater with a 65+% efficiency will use 2 ton a year less wood...
Put this together - we get 100,000 people to change their wood heater to a model with half the Australian standards - we have reduced our carbon emissions by 1Million Tons a year!!
Get on board - make an educated choice and be apart of our 1Million Ton Campaign
Greg Parker-Hill
Director
Pivot Stove & Heating
Acknowledgments
Bush for Greenhouse | September 2003 by the CSIRO
Australian Home Heating Association
