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Greening Cowfold

You Can Change Our Future!

Greening Cowfold is a new initiative brought to you by Cowfold Parish Council and Cowfold Horticultural Society.

We are set up to help our village become a more sustainable, biodiverse and healthy place to live. We want to work with all the organisations and businesses in Cowfold. So if you, or anyone you know, would like to plant trees, help Cowfold homes become greener or get involved in any way – we’d love your help. Please get in touch by emailing us at greeningcowfold@gmail.com.

Questionnaire

Please support this important initiative by completing and submitting the following questionnaire.

Please rank each section on a sliding scale of importance from 9 (most important) to 1 (less important).

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A ranking of 1 is still Important. (Unranked items will be scored 5.)

Greening Cowfold Questionnaire

Environment

Allow Nature to thrive by supporting it

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Improve soil quality, naturally

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Replant trees, hedgerows and native plants

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Create habitats to improve biodiversity

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Reduce and control the use of pesticides and artificial fertilisers

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Minimise habitat destruction

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Map our landscape to chart improvements; UK Target is 30% for Nature

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Map species to chart improvements

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Minimise climate change impact but plan for changing climate

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Life Choices

Shop responsibly; local and recognising the carbon impact of our actions

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Maximise the use of Blue Bin recycling

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Support secondary recycling using local drop off facilities

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Measure and minimise all forms of Food Waste

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Encourage composting of garden and food waste

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Eat responsibly to minimise the environmental impact

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Support community and home-grown food initiatives

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Target Zero Plastics to landfill

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Minimise all forms of plastic packaging

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Energy and Resources

Minimise Home energy use

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Measure home energy efficiency

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Move to alternative/green energy sources

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Raise Carbon Awareness

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Install EV charging points

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Encourage household Solar PV installations

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Minimise water usage and waste

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Support Community Energy Schemes

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Support grid level Green energy

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Sustainable Transport

Ensure free flowing traffic at appropriate speeds

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Encourage walking/cycling with appropriate pathways

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Reduce commuting and support local employment

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Encourage home working where appropriate

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Support transition to Zero Emission vehicles

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Support Public Transport

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Encourage car sharing schemes

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Reduce travel by air and car

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Reduce vehicle speeds through small towns

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Community Engagement

Involve community in Nature recording

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Promote wildflower meadow and other garden wilding programmes

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Support planting to provide food for nature

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Encourage community recycling initiatives

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Support landowners to improve biodiversity; UK Target is 30% for Nature

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Engage local schools in Green activities

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Involve local youth groups in recycling and Nature recovery programmes

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Build a community mailing list to communicate locally

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Work with faith communities to build a greener community

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How can you help?

Please let us know how you can help or how we can help you by emailing greeningcowfold@gmail.com

Would you like to join our mailing list and receive the Greening Cowfold Newsletters?

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Newsletters

Here are links to our latest newsletters:

April

https://mailchi.mp/b7b91cf89910/april-newsletter

May

https://mailchi.mp/91c268ccb43f/greening-cowfold-may-2021

June

https://mailchi.mp/791dea60dd21/june-2021-newsletter

July

https://mailchi.mp/c795a3b8f234/butterflies-bugs-bbqs

August

https://mailchi.mp/d24524882d3f/august-2021-greening-cowfold-newsletter

September

https://mailchi.mp/6a4b45de6686/september-news

October

https://mailchi.mp/ff5ffd2e8d73/greening-cowfold-october-newsletter

Please take a look and do forward the links it to anyone else who might be interested – thank you!

Plant a Mini Wildflower Meadow

If you missed our Plant a Mini Meadow launch project, here is a link to the poster promoting this.

Plant a Mini Wildflower Meadow Poster

Sidebar

Next Parish Council Meeting

The Parish Council Ordinary Meetings are currently held in the Allmond Centre at 7:30pm on the second Monday of every month and are followed at 9:00pm with the monthly Planning Meeting.

The next meeting will be held in the Allmond Centre on Monday 10th January 2022.

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