Thakeham Residents to be issued 'Green Cards'

The annual Village Day at Thakeham on 19th June will see the launch of the “Greening Thakeham” campaign, an initiative to encourage the parish’s 700+ households to go green, reducing CO2 emissions while also saving money.

The campaign (part of the rapidly growing nationwide Greening Campaign), invites households to achieve five out of nine possible green challenges and, having done so, to display a Greening Thakeham card in their window.  These cards are then counted some weeks later so that the total CO2 savings achieved can be calculated… and celebrated.

As well as the main “Greening Thakeham” stall, many other stallholders will be embracing the theme with demonstrations to illustrate the various challenges, from washing laundry at 30o to composting and turning off lights. Local school children will also be getting involved and entertaining the crowd. Contests, challenges and a quiz will offer visitors the opportunity to take part, have some fun and win some suitably green prizes.

The campaign organisers hope even to involve the tug-of-war teams and strong man competitors in the Greening theme, a challenge if ever there was one! So come to Thakeham on the afternoon of 19th June to see what they get up to!

Thakeham Village Day will take place from 1pm on Saturday, 19 June 2010 next to Thakeham Village Hall – directions will be clearly seen from the B2166. 

For further general information on the Greening Campaign, please visit:
www.greening-campaign.co.uk

The Greening Thakeham challenge options are as follows :

                                                                Money saving    CO2 kg
                                                                 (at least) p.a.    saving p.a.
Turn off lights when you leave a room           £6.00              23kg
Change 3 light bulbs to low energy               £9.00              32kg
Turn off all standbys                                    £32.00            130kg
Wash laundry at 30oC                                  £10.00            45kg
Boil only the amount of water needed            £6.00             29kg
Turn the thermostat down by 1oC                  £50.00           330kg
Reduce toilet flush by using ‘Hippo’ or
Similar (saving 1200 litres)                           £3.00             834e
Turn off taps when brushing teeth
(saving 1500 litres)                                      £4.00              1e
Compost your organic waste – each               £9.96              reducing need for landfill
person dumps 194kg of organic waste,
saving the local council

AND AS A GENERAL RULE, DON’T FORGET TO MAKE GOOD USE OF YOUR BLUE TOP ACORN BIN!!

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