Climate Change - ideas
Welcome to Lancaster District Climate Change community.
Lancaster District has the opportunity to lead the way on work to address climate change. By working together, we can build a new future in a post Covid-19 world.
We are committed to reducing carbon emissions from council services. This includes installing solar panels on council homes, providing low energy council buildings and changing to low emission vehicles for refuse collections and other services.
We also want to enable people to take up the challenge of reducing their own carbon footprint.
This is a space for you to share ideas , discuss important topics and contribute to the future of your district.
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What are you doing at home or in your workplace to help the environment?
Small changes can make a big difference if enough people get involved. If you have an idea for ways to reduce your carbon footprint or to improve the environment, why not share it here so other people can get involved? Or just have a read through other people's ideas for some inspiration. If you see an idea you like, give it a thumbs up!
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about 1 month ago
CO2 is essential to life
CO2 on Earth is currently about 400ppm that’s 0.04 % of the atmospheric gasses. It is historically very low. If it falls below 150 ppm everything will die. It has been as low as 180ppm previously so was very close. Life thrives at higher levels. Levels in the thousand ppm support much larger animals and plants (dinosaurs for example) and plants require much less water.
over 1 year ago
Plant a tree
I wanted to plant a tree in the memory of my father but the plot in Caton Crook O'lune is full. Can we please create another place for this.
over 1 year ago
Free Refurbished Printers & Copiers
Sensible Choice a local business here in Lancaster is helping local businesses to save money and reduce our overall impact on the environment through providing refurbished printers and copiers free of charge. Please contact us to learn more and share your ideas with us.
over 1 year ago
Low Energy Technologies
Once again Sensible Choice are driving change across the district providing organisations with low energy technologies and solutions In some case we can reduce energy usage by upto 96% and CO2 by up to 92%. We cover a number of areas moving your phones and IT infrastructure to the cloud along with heat free printing technology. Please contact us to learn more and help us all drive the change.
almost 2 years ago
Stop the garden village
The above image on this web page is full of hypocrisy, 4 people looking out across a green landscape, yet the council intend to decimate and change forever the south of Lancaster, and other sites. The cities main attraction is the accessibility to the countryside, the garden village stops that dead, with new planned roads encircling the city effectively cutting easy access. The council is only interested in "green" where it suits, and it is difficult to know what the council sees as "green" in terms of a climate emergency given the planned huge development south of the city. I know there are also plans a foot to build on all "infill" sites, infill is the term given to land between major roads, the northern bypass for example, and this is already happening on numerous parts of the brown belt surrounding the city. In the meantime the hundreds of empty properties in the city remain undeveloped, the Canal Quarter shelved and the unchallenged expansion of Lancaster University continues. The plans for Lancaster are detrimental to the so called "climate emergency", how new bypasses and swaths of land given to housing is "green" is a joke. The plans need to stop and the council needs to stop ignoring local peoples concerns.
