We are twelve households on Fawnbrake and Kestrel Avenue working together to reduce our carbon output. We first met in October and have discussed Energy in the Home, Rubbish, Travel, and Water. At our next and last meeting we will discuss Food and Shopping.

Here are some of the actions our team has taken:

• Change to a compostable cat litter
• Double-glazed the back extension
• Put an ecobutton on the computer
• Collect plastic bags (like those for fruit) and take the to Sainsbury’s for recycling
• Be more careful about turning plugs off at the socket
• Have a carbon survey done on my home
• Open a milkandmore account on line so I can order their organic veg/fruit box
• Turn off the heat when sleeping and away from home. Keep it at 13 when home
• Borrow an electricity meter
• Boil only as much water as needed
• Turn off lights
• Put in low energy bulbs
• Get a veg box to eat locally and in season
• Get milk delivered – no plastic bottles
• Call catalogues to cancel delivery of them
• Buy yogurt from Brixton Market in reusable glass containers
• Install radiator panels
• Have Lambeth collect moth-eaten woolens for recycling
• Install secondary glazing
• Put cling film on windows
• Compost using bokashi box
• Buy veg and fruit without packaging
• Share rides
• Do the school run by bicycle
• Commit to limiting air travel to one roundtrip a year
• Put in a front door curtain
• Switch to a renewable energy supplier