Cutting Carbon

June 2021. Councillors Taylor and Wilson attended a Zoom session, organised by Electricity North West, on possible ways of raising finance to start projects aimed at reducing net carbon emissions. Many community projects focus on generating electricity via solar, wind or hydro power, but it’s just as important to reduce energy consumption in the home, […]

A previous post talked about the average carbon footprint per household in Tatham. But what’s yours? The web is awash with tools that claim they can give you the answer, but most are badly-designed and gimmicky, and their verdicts unreliable. An exception is a new tool designed by CAfS Cumbria Action for Sustainability. In fact

If you live in one of Tatham’s many hard-to-heat houses, and would like to make it more energy-efficient, Cumbria Action for Sustainability has just the thing for you, on Tuesday 27th April, from 7.00 – 8.30pm. It’s a free online (Zoom) session on retrofitting traditional buildings, with expert speakers, who’ll point you in the right

Cllr. Wilson represented the parish council at a Zoom webinar organised by Electricity North West Limited (ENWL). As Distribution Network Operator for our area, ENWL has a pivotal role in enabling and assisting communities to transition away from dependence on fossil fuels for home heating and private transport, because that transition means using, and generating,

Councillors Taylor and Wilson attended a launch event in January 2021 for a carbon footprinting tool designed specifically for parishes. It has been developed by the Centre for Sustainable Energy in Bristol, working with Exeter University, and draws on a very wide range of data sources to calculate carbon emissions for every parish in England.

February 2021. Four Tatham Parish Councillors attended a Zoom meeting hosted by Lancaster City Council. The aim of the session was to investigate ways of implementing the People’s Jury recommendations, set out at the previous meeting in December 2020. A short talk on the important role of food and diet, from production, through consumption, to

February 2021. Councillor Osborne attended an on-line presentation, by Kate Gilmartin, for parish councillors and other interested people, on the Rural Community Energy Fund, which has been set up to enable communities to find solutions for carbon reduction via energy efficiency or renewable energy. A community successful in accessing the offered funding can form a

December 2020. Four Tatham Parish Councillors attended a Zoom webinar hosted by Lancaster City Council, where members of the People’s Jury, set up following the City Council’s 2019 Climate Emergency declaration, reported on a long process of developing a series of recommendations to the City Council, which they summarised, before inviting comments and suggestions from

November 2020. The Parish Council resolved to support the Local Electricity Bill, which received its first parliamentary reading, in the House of Commons, in June 2020.