I'm the Marketing and Communications Manager for Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT). My job is very varied and interesting as I get to help promote all PECT's projects which range from helping local people reduce their fuel bills (and carbon footprint) to setting up a zero waste zone in the city centre where we test innovative methods of reducing, reusing and recycling as much rubbish as possible. I write a weekly column in the Peterborough Evening Telegraph called shades of green - check it out in the ET on Saturdays or online here. My pet environmental hate is very specific! People who buy one or two items for lunch from Marks and Spencer and take one of their small plastic carrier bags – they probably use it for five minutes before it goes straight in the bin. I always pull faces at people who do that (so they can't see me of course – very passive aggressive, I know.) Oh and people who say 'why should I be green? China isn't.' Could you imagine a child that swears getting off the hook because they say 'it's ok, Tom over the road does it.'? My top green tip is just do something. Pick one thing you want to focus on and stick to it. Whether it's bussing or cycling to work, taking reusable bags to the shops with you, turning the heating down or setting up a water butt in your garden – just pick your one thing and make sure you keep it up. Once you've got the one under your belt it will just become habit and so effort-free that you can pick something else to focus on. Contact me: nyree@pect.org.uk 01733 866437 |
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Peterborough Environment City Trust, The Green House, 1st Floor, 4-6 Cowgate,
Peterborough PE1 1NA
t 01733 568 408 e info@pect.org.uk f 01733 553 716
t 01733 568 408 e info@pect.org.uk f 01733 553 716