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Use Less, Waste Less, Re-use, Re-cycle
What is Sustainability?
Sustainable development is defined as that which satisfies the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
On average each person in the UK uses three times the amount of the world's resources that the earth can support. We eat, heat, wash, waste, buy and travel too much. Our methods of food production, energy production and transport are energy intensive and polluting. Landfill produces millions of tonnes of Methane which is a more potent green-house gas than CO2. These gases, and others, cause the planet to warm, destroy the countryside and biodiversity, create waste and threaten health. Additionally, our search for energy to support this lifestyle makes us dependent on other countries for fuel. These countries may impose unattractive conditions leading to fuel insecurity.
What is the evidence?
Since the 1950s there has been a dramatic increase in greenhouse gas emissions which are more than the earth can absorb. This has resulted in the warming of the planet.
These increases have enhanced the ability of the earth's atmosphere to trap heat, which in turn causes climate change. The scientific consensus is that the trend towards very dry and hot summers, interspersed with periods of heavy rainfall, such as experienced in 2007 around the world, is a result of human activity.
What can we do about this? A good first approach is: "Use Less, Use local"
Join the Goring & Streatley Sustainability Group
Membership is free. You can opt to just be informed of major events we are holding through newsletters, or to receive more detailed information so you are involved in the decision making of what we do. We try to do most communication through email to save paper so please give us your email address if you have one.
History & Objectives
Action Plan.
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