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LED Light Bulbs

Switching to LED light bulbs in your house reduces your carbon footprint and saves you money.Typically LED light bulbs use a lot less electricity than ordinary light bulbs (saving £2 - £7 per bulb per year) and last a lot longer (at least 5 times longer).Switching to LED lights in your house could reduce your carbon footprint per year by 63kg and if we all swapped, we would save 1.7 million tonnes annually.

Practically all bulbs are now available as LEDs including fancy ones with mock filaments. The table above (from The Lightbulb Company) shows you how to buy the right brightness using lumens.

For example to get an equivalent brightness to a:

  • 25W standard light bulb buy a 4W LED
  • 40W standard light bulb buy a 6W LED
  • 60W standard light bulb buy a 10W LED
  • 75W standard light bulb buy a 13W LED
  • 100W standard light bulb buy a 18W LED

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Biodiversity

Why is biodiversity so important and what has it to do with Climate Change?  Biodiversity describes the vast range of interacting living things.  For millennia the interaction of these systems resulted in a fine balance between the natural emission of carbon into the atmosphere and the absorption of carbon back into the land and oceans.  A wide diversity of species meant failure in one system could be compensated in another and the whole eco system rebalanced. Trees and plants absorb large amounts of carbon as well as providing habitats for a wide range of species.

These habitats are being destroyed by human intervention at a catastrophic rate and the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world. Since the 1930s, 97% of our species-rich wild meadows have been eradicated, 41% of all our species have been rapidly in decline since the 1970s and 15% are nearing extinction.  

Reduce biodiversity and we reduce nature's ability to absorb carbon.  The carbon accumulating in the atmosphere is accelerating Climate Change - which in turn contributes to the depletion of the species.

Cornwall has been chosen by Government as only one of five areas in the country to become a Nature Recovery Pilot. Sitting alongside Cornwall Council Climate Change Plan it will identify how best the county can protect, restore, and improve local wildlife.

What can you do

  • Increase diversity in your own garden
  • Mow high and not until June
  • Leave wildlife corners
  • Install a pond
  • Encourage birds and hedgehogs

Sources of Information

Plant Life: The Wild Plant Conservation Charity

Wildlife Trusts

The Woodland Trust 

The Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity 


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Composting

Composting benefits our gardens by reducing kitchen waste and providing a mini ecosystem all ready to get to work by improving the structure and health of your soil. If you have the space for an open compost heap it will also provide a home and a larder for wildlife including Hedgehogs and grass snakes. Your homemade compost will boost the fertility of your soil without the need for chemicals. It can also help your plants resist disease by increasing water and nutrient retention.

What you can do

  • Buy a compost bin or make a compost heap
  • Add the following to your bin: grass cuttings, fruit and vegetable scraps, cardboard, coffee grounds, tea bags (if not containing plastic), eggshells, shredded paper, soft prunings and dead plants
  • Do NOT add cooked food, meat, fish, bones, cat litter, dog poo, perennial weeds, woody stems, diseased plants
  • Turn regularly to get air in
  • When your compost is dark, crumbly and sweet smelling, layer it on as a mulch, the worms will do the rest

Sources of Information

How to compost your waste


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Public Transport Competition - Summer 2023

In Summer 2023, Landulph Climate Group ran a public transport completion to encourage children in the Parish to be taken on public transport and use the two buses that were running from Landulph as a trial (452 and 454).  The competition was as follows:

There’s so much to do in Cornwall in the summer and going by bus, train or ferry is part of the fun. It can easily save money, avoid the hassle of traffic and parking, be good for the planet, and you can enter our competition.

Just keep a diary of any trip over. the summer that involves a bus, train or ferry anywhere in Britain. There will be prizes in different age groups for making lots of journeys by public transport or having an interesting diary or the best description or picture of a trip.

If you live or go to school in Landulph Parish, or if you are visiting here over the summer holidays, why not go on at least one trip using a bus, train or ferry and enter our fun competition.

You can lay your diary out any way you want – either just a simple list or a scrapbook with tickets and pictures or even an online record. You must include the following details for each part of the trip: date, time, type of transport (bus, train or ferry), start and end location and who you went with.  If you need help with the writing, that's ok.  You don’t have to just use public transport for the trip so for example you could park in Saltash and take the train to the seaside at Looe.

The competition closes on 3 September 2023 - any trips after this date won’t count. You need to complete the entry form overleaf (or provide the details in your diary) and hand in with your diary to Landulph School reception by 18 September 2023. If your diary is online, please email it to clare.tagg@landulph.org.uk.

Here are some ideas for trips using public transport:

  • Catch the 452 (Tuesday) or 454 (Thursday) from Cargreen and visit the Leisure Centre in Saltash
  • Catch the 452 (Tuesday) or 454 (Thursday) from Cargreen and visit the Tamar Bridge Visitor Centre - it's free and you can book a guided tour
  • Catch the 452 (Tuesday) or 454 (Thursday) from Cargreen and use a 2A or 12 to travel onto Plymouth - there's lots to do but a visit to The Box is free and has activities for children over the summer
  • Explore the trains - we recommend some trips from Saltash
  • See how far you can go in Cornwall by bus - a family ticket (for 2 adults and any number of children under 16) costs just £15 for unlimited travel for a day
  • Take one of the foot ferries from the Barbican in Plymouth to explore Cawsand or Mount Edgecombe
  • That's lots of information online or the Information Centre in Plymouth is very helpful.

Public Transport Competition Entry Form (pdf)

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Climate Crisis

To become carbon- neutral we need to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide we produce and capture the carbon dioxide we do produce to prevent it entering the atmosphere. In this way our impact on the planet will support a positive future for everyone. To achieve this target, businesses, residents and organisations in Cornwall need to work in partnership with Cornwall Council to tackle carbon emissions in the areas illustrated in the diagram above.

Although this is a huge national issue - there is something everyone can do - from the way we work, the way we travel, the way we purchase things, the way we dispose of things, the way we keep warm...and even what we eat. This is something that everyone can make a difference with - lots of small initiatives can have a big effect!

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