Thursday, 18 September 2008

Creating a cleaner and healthier environment (Towards 2021 the Dacorum Sustainable Community Strategy )

Creating a cleaner and healthier environment (Towards 2021 the Dacorum Sustainable Community Strategy )

Perhaps something might happen by 2021 , much of it's not happening now !!

www.dacenvforum.org.uk

OUR AIM: To resolve local environmental issues and enhance the
natural beauty and built environment of Dacorum
How will we do this? Through encouraging individuals and
organisations to work together locally to improve the environment
and help reduce global impacts
Theme lead forum: Dacorum Environmental Forum
To deliver this aim we will:
• Increase environmental awareness
• Reduce energy and water consumption
• Encourage sustainable travel
• Reduce waste volumes and levels of litter
• Maintain and improve biodiversity
• Encourage the use of local resources
Our actions will include:
• Developing education programmes that encourage personal
responsibility and value for surroundings
• Co-ordinating work to support disadvantaged residents to benefit
from improvements to sustainability
• Adopting sustainable energy approaches to all new buildings and
encouraging sustainable construction practices
• Improving energy efficiency in all buildings
• Encouraging water conservation practices
• Maintain and seek to improve public transport
Encourage more people to walk and cycle   ( Not walking through the Magic Roundabout Underpass it's been flooded for three weeks  http://hemelcouncilcomplain.blogspot.com/2008/09/hemel-flooded-and-offensively-graffited.html
• Encouraging the ‘three Rs’ – reduce, reuse, recycle
• Encouraging businesses to use less packaging and adopt more sustainable
waste management
Clamping down on littering and fly-tipping and removing dumped waste quickly ( removing litter ? Not in the Magic Roundabout Underpass it's rubbish strewn and never seems to be cleaned  http://hemelcouncilcomplain.blogspot.com/2008/09/hemel-flooded-and-offensively-graffited.html 
• Protection and enhancement of wildlife habitats and making them resilient to change
• Providing information and promoting initiatives to encourage people to choose sustainable
produce and products
• Raising awareness of practices which have the potential to damage the environment

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