Cutting Carbon

November 2021. Councillors Osborne and Wilson attended a two-hour webinar, organised by Electricity North-West ENWL. The COP26 climate conference had concluded a few days earlier, and the “Glasgow Climate Pact” which emerged from it referred to the importance of community action in fighting global heating, a point echoed in UK government’s Net Zero Strategy: Build […]

There’s much talk these days about carbon offsetting – the idea that an individual or organisation can compensate for their carbon emissions by doing something that takes carbon out of the air.* Like planting trees! Or paying someone else to plant them. eforests is a company that facilitates carbon offsetting through tree-planting. And it needs

October 2021. Councillors Osborne and Taylor attended the Walk2COP26 Climate Crisis Conference at the Winter Gardens in Morecambe, arranged to coincide with a visit by a group of environmentalists walking from London to the crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. The event aimed to encourage those attending to look hard at what climate change means

The final Great Big Green Week event, in the car park at St. James the Less Church, was an opportunity to learn about electric cars (“EVs”) and e-bikes from experienced local owners. Four EVs and five e-bikes were on show, and visitors were able to try out the bikes, and experience rides in the EVs.

Wednesday’s Great Big Green Week event focused on Managing woodland and grassland for CO2 reduction & biodiversity. Anne led the party from the Church of the Good Shepherd to nearby Middleton Wood, which is classed as Ancient Semi-Natural Woodland, meaning it has been continuously wooded for at least 400 years – and probably since the

Each of the Retrofitting your home to cut carbon and costs sessions, in the afternoon and evening, was well attended. They were part of a parish programme of Great Big Green Week events. Richard and Anne described and demonstrated the measures they had implemented over the years to try to make their home more energy

Tatham kicked off its programme of Great Big Green Week  events with a visit to Lower Lythe, home of the first wind turbine in the parish, installed in 2009. As well as being one of the highest dwellings in Tatham at 250m, Lower Lythe is also in one of its windiest spots. The owner, Esther,

The Great Big Green Week is a national initiative, and the Parish Council is joining in by staging a series of low-key events designed to encourage residents to think about what they can do to reduce carbon emissions in the parish and to help slow down global heating. The events cover a range of topics