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New cash to promote greener living

25 June 2009

PCS has successfully bid for money from a new £6 million Defra fund set up to help voluntary organisations develop environmental projects.

The Defra Greener Living Fund aims to promote positive environmental changes and help people reduce their carbon footprints, make greener lifestyle choices and find new ways to rely less on our natural resources.

Our Climate Solidarity project was one of 10 successful projects chosen from over 100 applications.

Climate Solidarity is a partnership of PCS, the Communication Workers Union, the National Union of Teachers and the University and College Union. Working with the Climate Outreach and Information Network it will mobilise a combined union membership of nearly one million people.
The aim is to develop new low carbon workplaces and provide green jobs for the future, building on core trade union ideas of collective action, social justice and solidarity.

The partnership aims to inspire community action on transport, housing (cutting bills and fitting insulation) and food (ending waste and buying locally).

It will set up ‘climate action groups’ of trade union members which will work together for six months on a particular theme.

The project will be evaluated by experts from the Open University, the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University and the University of Sussex.

Find out more at on the green workplaces pages.

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