There are different ways for you to get involved.
Join LCWO
Send us your name and contact details and we'll put you on our mailing list and keep you up to date with our latest news and events.
Join a Working Group and Put Your Ideas into Practise
The groups are: transport, food, reducing waste, the Big Green Challenge project, and the Eco Library
Sign up to become a volunteer household for the Big Green Challenge Project
We want to work with 35 households (rented or owned) each year to help them save energy (and money). We have enough for our pilot project in 2008 but please contact us if you would like to go on the waiting list for next year.
We are also asking other interested households to monitor and reduce their energy use. Would you be prepared to send us your meter readings/car mileage every month.
Become a LCWO Volunteer
Let us know what skills, ideas or practical support you could contribute to LCWO. For example:
- fund raising
- helping at meetings or stalls
- leafleting
- designing leaflets
- free photocopying
- translation to Urdu, Bengali, Chinese
- media skills
- web site design
- practical knowledge of green technology
Share your gadgets
Share your gadgets with neighbours through LCWO. We are planning to set a ‘virtual shed’ to facilitate person to person loans of low-use equipment to save resources.
So let us know if you are willing to share your equipment. For example:
- hedge trimmers
- shredders
- lawnmowers
- bike trailers
- photo printers
Take individual action to reduce your carbon footprint
Save energy in your home. For example:
- replacing light bulbs with energy efficient ones
- switching to a green electricity tariff
- draught proofing and insulating your home
- switching appliances off at the mains
- do not leave phone chargers plugged in
- turning down the thermostat and putting on a jumper
- washing clothes at lower temperatures
- drying clothes outside
Reduce waste
by consuming less, recycling more, re-using goods and packaging
Using the car less, walk or cycling instead; reduce the number of non-essential flights you take; use the train or bus train where possible
Buying local and sustainable sources of food
Tell the government
Tell the government to take tough action on climate change at home, in the EU, and in the international climate change negotiations by taking action with Stop Climate Chaos, Oxfam, WWF, Greenpeace or other organisations
