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Just One Thing (or maybe a few!) to help Mother Earth

You decide what you want to do or have just done, write it on one or more green labels and hang it on our church "tree."
 

Transport

20% of our emissions comes from passenger cars

Carbon Dioxide from cars and planes are the two most significant causes of climate changes

• Can you walk/cycle/use buses or trains more as an alternative to cars? To shop, to we to church?

• Can you pledge to have a car free day once a week or a fortnight or even once a mon

• Can you car share to mass or to work?

• Can you consider travelling by train rather than by plane for a holiday?

• Can you reduce your speedy delivery in large vans Internet Shopping? Try to use Royal Mail.

In your Home
Energy - 18% of our emissions comes from heating our homes

• What is the carbon footprint of your home?

Can you have an energy audit of your home and consider how you can make it mo energy efficient e.g. through insulation of walls and loft?

• Can you switch to an energy supplier which relies more on renewable sources of energy?

• Be sparing in your use of Artificial Intelligence, which uses up 10 times more electricity than a Google enquiry.

Shopping

• When you shop, can you consider if your fresh produce has travelled by air to avo transport pollution? Avoid beans from Zambia and cut flowers from Kenya. How can you buy locally and from UK? Try to eat seasonally where possible.

• Choose loose veg and fruit to avoid packaging.

• Can you eat less meat and more pulses and beans?

• Can you collect plastic film and take it to your supermarket for recycling?

• Shopping for clothes: can you buy less and make do?