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We’re Dreaming of a GREEN Christmas!
Here are some ideas to make your Christmas more sustainable and LESS commercial!
Beforehand
- Make cards or buy charity cards (from charity shops). Use the Scout Post for Salisbury area delivery.
- Buy paper that can be recycled (no metallic content) or use brown, tissue or news paper tied up with ribbon or wool. Don’t use sticky tape.
- Turn off Christmas lights overnight and during day.
- Make decorations (perhaps use greenery from the garden) including your Christmas Wreath - see below.
- Remember reusable bags when shopping.
- Give an environmentally friendly or homemade gift (eg sloe gin, jams and chutneys, biscuits – why not make up a hamper?), or an experience.
- Don’t buy plastic items that will end up in land fill.
- Buy a real tree, preferably with roots, from a sustainable grower.
- Don’t buy too much food and do use leftovers. Buy locally or FairTrade items from local farms and farm shops, Farmer’s Markets, Salisbury Market. Downton Country Market or the Co-op.
During
- Play games, go for walks.
- Make hats from wrapping paper!
- Don’t eat too much!
- Keep ribbon and wrapping paper for next year (easier if you don’t use sticky tape)
- Remember recycling generally (don’t forget tin foil).
Afterwards
- Take cards for recycling for the Woodland Trust to WH Smiths or Tescos or keep for next year’s tags or decorations.
- Recycle tree at Sports-Centre in January or plant for next year.
- Recycle unwanted presents – charities, Freecycle.org, ‘regift’.
If you have any more ideas please email us at downton.transition@googlemail.com
Finally we shall be making Christmas wreaths at various events including the St Laurence Bazaar in the Memorial Hall on Sat 28 Nov (12-3pm), the Country Market in Memorial Hall on Fri 4th Dec (9.45-11am) and at the Primary School Fair also on Friday 4th December (5-7pm).
Transition Downton
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who are taking action to look after the environment, tackle
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Whether you compost your kitchen waste, fit low-energy lightbulbs,
volunteer for a wildlife project, set up a car-club or help
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Downton in Transition –
preparing for a low carbon future
Last month at the Downton WWT Greener Living Roadshow, a small
group of us proposed the idea of initiating a ‘Downton Transition
Village Group’. The aim of such a group would be to act as
a catalyst in ‘re-localising’ the community in order
to start planning for a lower carbon lifestyle, so mitigating the
effect of climate change and oil depletion (‘Peak Oil’).
There was much interest in the idea so over the next few months
we will run a series of events which we hope will involve as many
local people as possible. The first will be showing the inspirational
film, ‘The Power of Community’, towards the end of April.
Look out for details on posters, on this website and in the local
press.
More information can be found on the following websites:
http://www.energybulletin.net/primer.php#primer
- an intelligent definition of peak oil
http://transitionculture.org/
on transition initiatives or just Google!
For more information please contact Sally
on 512902 or Vicky on 511223
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