We're going to save the planet – taking small steps at first
PEOPLE living in a West Sussex village are being asked to sign up to pledges to save the planet and help beat the credit crunch.
The people of Westbourne, near Emsworth, are hoping to save a total of 122,000 a year by thinking green and taking small steps towards controlling climate change.
Members of the Greening Westbourne campaign, chaired by Colin Carr, have put together an eight-point plan and are asking all 1,000 households in the village to make a start by following just five of the steps.
Mr Carr, a 43-year-old training manager, said: 'We just wanted to take action. I don't see this as a government responsibility, as anyone else's responsibility apart from our own, so that is why we are doing this.
'Everyone has their part to play and I believe that there are big changes coming and we are going to have to adapt in order to control climate change.
'By taking these small steps now, we will get used to the idea of changing our habits.'
Westbourne Primary School, the Allotment Association and other community groups are all getting on board to change their way of thinking when it comes to the environment and to save money.
Greening campaigns have been springing up across Hampshire and West Sussex. They are the brainchild of Terena Plowright, former manager of the Sustainability Centre in East Meon, who now leads the campaign full time.
The idea is to get every household to follow five or more steps of the eight-point plan and, once they have committed, to display the cards in their windows.
From this information the annual CO2 cut for the community can be estimated and reported. For Petersfield the saving was 23 tons of carbon dioxide – the equivalent of a single ton of carbon dioxide would cover roughly the size of a four-bedroom house.
The next campaign meeting is on Monday at 7.30pm in the Baptist Church, North Street, Westbourne.
For further information or to find out more about running a campaign in West Sussex visit www.greening campaign.co.uk or contact Emma Livett, environment officer at Chichester District Council on 01243 785166 ext 4126 or orlivett@chichester. gov.uk.
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