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Pickering and Kirkbymoorside Team are North Yorkshire's
"Greenest Neighbourhood Team" Following Their Green Neighbourhood
Challenge Win
Following a special awards ceremony in York on
Saturday, the Pickering and Kirkbymoorside Team, based in Ryedale,
has been announced winner of the Green Neighbourhood Challenge – a
year-long sub-regional carbon-cutting campaign.
The team, headed up by champion Mike Potter, was picked to take
part in the campaign in January last year – competing alongside six
other groups from across York and North Yorkshire to make lifestyle
changes that will create greener communities for themselves and for
future generations, helping them to save money at the same
time.
The Green Neighbourhood Challenge's aim was to see which group
could do the most to save (and even generate) energy, cut emissions
and encourage local people in their area to foster a low-carbon
lifestyle. Teams were challenged to achieve an 11% reduction
in their carbon footprint by the end of 2011 - whilst earning the
laudable title of North Yorkshire's 'Greenest Neighbourhood
Team'.
The Pickering and Kirkbymoorside Team has been awarded £500 to
invest back into their community and a certificate congratulating
them on their achievement of a whopping 11.9% carbon reduction and
evidence of strong grass roots activity within their
neighbourhood.
John Brown, Ryedale District Council's Environmental
Co-ordinator is proud of the team's achievement:
"We're so thrilled that the Pickering and Kirkbymoorside team
has won the Green Neighbourhood Challenge. We've monitored their
progress throughout this challenge and their fantastic efforts will
no doubt be used as a catalyst to creating a more sustainable
community for themselves and others. We applaud their award and
hope it will encourage more communities in our area to partake in
low-carbon living. The teamhas laid the groundwork for any local
community to take up the Green Neighbourhood Challenge - which is a
very worthy way of greening your community, having fun, learning
and saving money at the same time."
Green Neighbourhood Challenge Project Coordinator, Denise Hall,
is impressed with the level of commitment shown by the groups
involved:
"Our teams have all contributed differently – but the overall
aim of increasing awareness of the benefits of low-carbon living
has been achieved in all areas. The groups have created a blueprint
for other communities to follow suit and discover the challenge for
themselves – and I'm incredibly proud to be a part of this
successful project. Congratulations to everyone taking part."
Supported by local councils across York andNorth Yorkshire, the
project was funded by the Yorkshire and Humber Improvement and
Efficiency Partnership (YoHR Space). It was managed by Yorkshire
Energy Partnership and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at
York University.
The Green Neighbourhood Challenge is now relaunching
its website to feature toolkits and resource packs so that any
community group can organise and launch their own challenge or
series of activities. To find out more visit http://www.greenneighbourhood.co.uk/ .
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