ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE but not sure what you can do to help tackle the problem? Join in 'The Everybody’s Talking About Climate Change Campaign', launched in Newark and Sherwood in May and find out how making small changes at work, at home and in our leisure activities can make a big difference. Visit www.everybodys-talking.org/ for a Pledge Form and sign up to one or more of the small steps suggested to help reduce our carbon footprint.

Energy Obesity

Do you know where your home sits on the energy obesity scales? Simply answer the Energy Obesity Quiz questions to see whether you need to trim your home's energy use.

Householder Impact

House
Heating and lighting account for the biggest single contribution to CO2 emissions. Visit the web site of Newark and Sherwood Energy Agency for ways that you can cut your heating bills and help save the planet. Visit http://www.est.org.uk or the Newark and Sherwood Energy Agency for ideas on how to cut your energy bills, warm your home and reduce your households contribution to global warming.

Family Car
While sometimes there is no alternative but to drive, every trip you share with someone else, use public transport, cycle or walk rather than travel alone in your car helps the planet.
The car tax you pay will be linked to the CO2 that your car produces - it pays to save the planet by buying fuel efficient vehicles.
Visit the http://www.traveline.org.uk for details of public transport services or phone the Traveline number (Tel 0870 6082608) for all bus and train timetable enquires.

Family Jet
Flying is a major contribution to global warming, and as fares fall and more people travel by plane, the damage will increase.Visit http://www.bestfootforward.com for ways to offset the carbon produced by our daily lives.

Water
Water is pumped across the country, sometimes over long distances, and this uses energy that produces CO2 as it is generated.
The Environment Agency has an interesting website that addresses many environmental issues including water use and conservation: www.environment-agency.gov.uk

Family Food
Locally grown food reduces Food Miles - the distance heavy lorries and aircraft have to travel to get the food to our shops. Only buy food that is grown in season - if you don't know when this is, look at the label and purchase food grown nearest to you.
Visit http://www.soilassociation.org for more about the environmental impact of food production.

Household Waste
CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas - others are even more sthe Powers of Well-being: How to Re-energise the Promotion of Sustainable Development at the Local Level' erious pollutants. Methane is a greenhouse gas produced when waste is dumped into landfill sites. The more household waste dumped, the more methane produced.

Look at Waste Minimisation on the Council's Environment Services pages of the website for more information.

'Beyond the Powers of Well-being: How to Re-energise the Promotion of Sustainable Development at the Local Level'

A copy of a Keynote Presentation by Newark & Sherwood District Council to the Sustainable Development Commission, hosted by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in 2003, is available on CD from help4u@nsdc.info

'Climate Change; What can I do?' Change; What can I do?'
A presentation given to the 'Rio: Ten Years On...' Conference in Nottingham 2002 and featured in the Nottinghamshire 'Living for Tomorrow' magazine is available on CD from help4u@nsdc.info

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