Our greener borough

This initiative aims to involve residents, businesses and the council in an environmental challenge.

We want to encourage you to make a personal commitment to protecting the environment. Show that you can make a difference by adopting a more sustainable lifestyle.

What you can do

• Are you a resident?
  Show your commitment to making our borough greener by pledging to make a small change in your daily life. If everyone pledges we can make big savings on energy use, water consumption and rubbish going to landfill.  Pick up a Pledge form from your local library and join the discussion on Project Dirt.   
   
• Are you a business? 
  Small Wandsworth businesses have access to support and information from southlondon.biz to become more sustainable and save money.   Email gogreen@southlondon.biz, phone (020) 8947 0055 or visit www.southlondon.biz  

   

  Please note this competition has now closed. Small business which are committed to reducing their environmental impact should get involved in the prestigious Green Business Awards, which recognises innovative and committed sustainable practices.  

• Are you a green champion? Please note this competition has now closed. We reward residents and schools that make a special effort to encourage others to be greener. Read about Green Champions Competition 2009.
  

• Have you got a green idea?
  The Wandsworth Eco Fund has been set up to provide community groups with a share of £5,000 with which to develop green projects. These could be schemes to improve the quality of our local environment, reduce energy use or increase recycling. For information, ideas and to download an application form visit the Project's Eco Fund page on Project Dirt.  Or you can download the application form here.

What we're doing

Get information on our environmental policy and practices and find out what we are doing to look after the environment including:

• Tackling pollution and campaigning against noise
• Conserving wildlife (biodiversity) and trees
• Providing better recycling banks and services

Links

Local:

• Wandsworth Environment Forum - local environmental and amenity groups and residents who meet to take action on sustainable development issues. To contact the forum email envpolicy@wandsworth.gov.uk
• London21 Sustainability Network
• The Mayor for London's Environmental Strategies
• Use the carbon footprint calculator at Act on CO2 campaign or the BioRegional One Planet Challenge. For a host of carbon calculating resources for home or business visit Carbon Footprint. 
• Litteraction helps you to get involved in stopping litter
• All Things Eco eco news and information on local campaigns
• Suscribe to The Nag to get tips on how to be more green

National and international:

• The UK Government
• The Energy Saving Trust provides small grants of up to £200 to support, facilitate and promote community energy based projects. The new government-funded Boiler Scrappage scheme provides a discount for those with G-rated (or less efficient) boilers when purchasing a replacement A-rated boiler or renewable heating technology.
• Act on CO2 - a cross-government initiative to help people save money, save energy and reduce their CO2 emissions. It is a handy resource with useful tools like the water saving calculator.
• The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
• The United Nations