Winkleigh Environment Group exists to promote activities to combat climate change and biodiversity loss. The group started in October 2019, following a declaration of climate emergency by Winkleigh Parish Council
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Are you worried about, the state of our planet?, global warming?, or your own carbon footprint?.
Are you struggling to find solutions to headline news concerning human impacts on our environment?
The Winkleigh Environment group have been formed so no one should feel alone in their quest to do something positive to improve our actions locally.
Eco-Anxiety has surfaced, as more facts are released, and we are very concerned on the effect this is having on the young people in our community. It is felt they need not just hope but action! One of the main problems with modern life is our release of too many greenhouse gasses. Wherever you look it up Carbon Dioxide (C02) comes top of the list. All the gasses together form to cause the green house effect so the Earth heats up.
Every litre of diesel used in a car or lorry produces nearly 3kg of C02. The making of two plastic bottles releases 1kg of C02 into the air. If nationally we can each reduce our emissions by 1kg the saving adds up to 60 thousand tonnes of C02. A small act shared can give fantastic results.
We believe the people of Winkleigh can do much better than that and be an inspiration to others.
In our aim to reduce C02 we can look for ways to store it. One of the best ways is to lock it up in soil.
The composting system run through the green bin scheme (by TDC) is very convenient to many who pay for it to be collected. However when you map the road miles, with unnecessary C02 release, we believe people can achieve much better results by composting at home, saving money and storing carbon where it's most needed, in the soil.
