Resident Climate Action Hub

Share your thoughts with others on ways to plan, buy, prepare, serve, and store meals that are healthy, low cost AND low carbon.

What are the challenges and how can they be overcome?

Did you know, UKHarvest operate Community Food Hubs in West Sussex to fight food waste and provide access to affordable food. West Sussex County Council is working with UKHarvest to pilot new Community Food Hubs at Bognor Regis, Crawley and Southwick. Learn more about Food Rescue on our website and at UKHarvest.

What do you think? What have you found most effective and why? Does your Smart meter help you make better choices?

Find help with your energy bills.

It may seem as if not much is happening in your garden or in local green spaces during the winter, but people can still take action to help wildlife to thrive and give biodiversity a boost. Share your thoughts with other West Sussex residents on how we can all support nature at this time of year.

The RHS website has some handy hints for helping wildlife through the winter.

The Sussex Wildlife Trust highlights what to look out for each month. See what you could spot in January and record what you see, so your sightings can be submitted to the Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre. 

What are some of the things that get in the way? How have you overcome this? Do you think we can achieve both?

Five ways to spend and waste less this Christmas from the BBC.

Here are some Christmas energy saving tips from the Energy Saving Trust - have you tried any of these before?

Read the The Carbon Trust’s tips for a more sustainable Christmas. Share your thoughts with each other here.

Very concerned about the huge amount of house building in West Sussex. This will not help the climate agenda at all as it will take away valuable landscapes which help with carbon collection and provide a habitat for nature. Plus all the extra people mean more roads and therefore pollution, and inevitably more infrastructure building. It is a never ending cycle - reducing population growth is part of the answer. 

Hi what are you doing to save energy as it gets colder?

when I am working from home, I just heat the room I work in using a plu in electric radiator? At the moment the electricity it is using is matched by the electricity coming off my PV panels so carbon-free and free money wise too!

I'd love for it to be a lot easier for communites to work together to establish community-owned electricity generation.   Currently there are significant constraints that make it all but impossible to get such schemes off the ground.   What could the council be doing to make it easier for such schemes to be viable?   

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/community-energy