The Queens Hall Narberth has teamed up with Transition Narberth and taken up the challenge of converting to a low carbon building and is hoping to take the community on the same journey.
The department of Energy and Climate Change has challenged twenty communities around Britain with leading their localities in the fight against global warming. Competition is stiff but the Queens Hall has a good chance of being able to lead the way as a carbon reducing community.
The project will involve measuring the present energy consumption, and using every means available to reduce the use of electricity and gas needed to run the building.
The community are being asked to find out their own carbon footprints and send the results in to be recorded now at the start of a new decade, and measured again as the project goes along, to show how much they have reduced the CO2 in the atmosphere.
Narberth people will be involved in the process of preparing and executing an energy reduction plan that will benefit the whole town. An open space meeting is planned soon and everybody who is interested will be invited to come and discuss ways of reducing energy and the cost of living. There will be a series of low carbon events to bring practical help to make the changes needed.
Spokesman Declan Connolly said " We all want to leave a decent world to our children and since there was no agreement at Copenhagen, everybody has to be active in adapting to dwindling reserves of fossil fuels.
"This project aims to help the whole community to adapt, one building at a time. We aim to help people to be resilient to environmental shocks and help create a sustainable future"
For a way to join in and record your own carbon footprint, log on to www.transitionarberth.org or call Declan on 01834 861408
Useful reference sites
www.sd-commission.org.uk/wales.php
www.thequeenshall.org.uk
www.tenp.org.uk
actonco2.direct.gov.uk/actonco2/home
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