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WILD ABOUT WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY IN TAMWORTH


Environmental Panorama
International
June of 2006

13-Jun-2006 - Turn the tap off while you brush your teeth! Take a shower not a bath! Share a car trip with someone you like, or even someone you don’t! Air your laundry in public and save electricity! Go on do it - it’s UN World Environment Day!

This World Environment Day we are asking mums and dads, kids, families and individuals to make some small lifestyle changes that will have a huge impact on the planet. We want everybody to know that you don’t have to be an Eco-Warrior to improve the environment – absolutely anyone can do something to help the planet.

We will be asking Tamworth shoppers to ‘promise the earth’ on 17 June 2006 for World Environment Day in the Castle Grounds, Tamworth.

We are joining Staffordshire Wildlife Trust at their ‘Wild about Tamworth’ event between 11am and 4pm. Brian Jenkins MP for Tamworth will also be joining us at our exhibition stand to make his own promises and celebrate World Environment Day at 11.30am.

By encouraging passers by to make a small promise to change their lifestyles, we hope to make a big impact on the environment. In return for their promises shoppers will receive a freebie or two to help them stick with their lifestyle changes.

At the our exhibition stand we will have experts on hand to give out advice on how to keep World Environment Day promises and explain what World Environment Day is all about.

Brian Jenkins, MP for Tamworth said, "It is vital that we all do our bit to protect the environment for future generations. Action is needed at all levels. The Government is working hard towards international co-operation on issues such as Climate Change and all of us can promise to make small lifestyle changes which can make a big impact on our environment."

Rob Lunt, Environment Agency Officer, said; "We will be at the Castle Grounds in Tamworth town centre on 17 June 2006 to celebrate World Environment Day and encourage all the shoppers in Tamworth to make their own promises. All people in Tamworth have to do is make some simple lifestyle changes. Last year nationally, 25,000 people made pledges and helped to save 181 swimming pools worth of water from being wasted and helped to stop 191 dustbin lorries of waste being transported to landfill."

More information

This years World Environment Day promises

Just go to www.environment-agency.gov.uk/wed and promise to do the following:

I promise to take a shower instead of a bath.

I promise to put a water saving device in my toilet cistern.

I promise to turn the tap off when I brush my teeth.

I promise to use rechargeable batteries instead of disposable ones.

I promise to use a reusable bag when I shop, rather than plastic carriers.

I promise to air my washing in public – not in the tumble dryer.

I promise to boil only the water I need, rather than filling the kettle every time

I promise to share my car journeys to work with a colleague, cycle, or replace those car journeys with public transport at least once a week.

I promise to use a climate payback scheme to reduce the impact of any air travel I take.

I promise to organise or volunteer for an environmental project in my local community.

Then the Environment Agency will be able to measure exactly how many litres of water, tonnes of CO2, kilograms of waste and kilowatt hours we can all save.

Climate change in the Midlands

Climate change is now one of the biggest challenges we face. With scientists predicting more winter flooding and summer drought, water shortages and hosepipe bans, such as those now being faced in the South of England, will become ever more likely in the Midlands too.

The UK climate has varied greatly over time due to natural causes, but human activities are now believed to be causing major changes to the climate by raising the levels of certain gases in the atmosphere. These gases are called greenhouse gases as they increase the amount of energy trapped in the atmosphere so raise the temperature of the Earth. How much our climate changes in the future depends on how much greenhouse gas we release.

There is evidence that the climate in the Midlands is already changing:

Five of the ten warmest years of the 20th century occurred in the 11000s, these were 11000, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 1999

Annual mean temperatures over Central England increased by 0.6ºC between 1901 and 1998

Annual rainfall totals have increased by 3% since the 1930s, but seasonal changes have been much more dramatic. December rainfall has increased by 38% and July rainfall decreased by 31%

Sea levels have risen by up to 2mm per year on the East CoastThe UK Climate Impacts Change Programme (UKCIP) has predicted that the Midlands’ climate will continue to get warmer and wetter, with more storms and flooding in the winter and more droughts in the summer. It is likely that this will lead to changes in the way we live and work and to the bio-diversity of the region. We are advising regional bodies on the likely impact of climate change, and on strategies to mitigate the effects and to adapt to the changes.

Wild about TamworthWild about Tamworth is organised by Staffordshire Wildlife Trust.
Holly Smith

 
 

Source: Environment Agency – United Kingdom (http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk)
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