Sustainable Xmas — Cheadle leafletting, free space & bike protest

Cheadle­High­Street Against Cli­mate Change say ‘A plan­et is not just for Xmas’

Activists from Cheadle­High­Street Against Cli­mate Change have com­menced their cam­paign for a sus­tain­able Xmas. Nation­al research has indi­cat­ed that peo­ple through hol­i­day eat­ing, trav­el, Christ­mas lights, and gift giv­ing pro­duce on aver­age 650 kg of CO2 emis­sions per indi­vid­ual. This is 5.5% of the year­ly car­bon foot­print of the UK.

Cheadle­High­Street Against Cli­mate Change say ‘A plan­et is not just for Xmas’

Activists from Cheadle­High­Street Against Cli­mate Change have com­menced their cam­paign for a sus­tain­able Xmas. Nation­al research has indi­cat­ed that peo­ple through hol­i­day eat­ing, trav­el, Christ­mas lights, and gift giv­ing pro­duce on aver­age 650 kg of CO2 emis­sions per indi­vid­ual. This is 5.5% of the year­ly car­bon foot­print of the UK.

The aver­age per­son dur­ing the Hol­i­days pro­duces 26 kg of CO2 from Christ­mas food, 96 kg of CO2 from Christ­mas Car trav­el, 218 kg of CO2 from extrav­a­gant light­ing dis­plays, 310 kg of CO2 on Christ­mas Shop­ping.

CACC mem­bers recieved a good response from shop­pers of all nation­al­i­ties with their leaflets ’ A plan­et is not just for Xmas’. Shop­pers were urged to buy local­ly grown conifers in pots rather than import­ed Scan­dana­vian trees and to use solar pow­ered lights . An exchange has been set up for recy­cled presents and those want­i­ng an alter­na­tive to farm pro­duced cru­el­ty have been offered soya tex­tured pro­tein in exchange for the Xmas turkey.

A ‘Xmas free space ’ will be opened for those suf­fer­ing stress at Xmas and those who wor­ship oth­er reli­gions or who are aethe­ists and pagans.There will also be a Box­ing Day bike protest against traf­fic con­ges­tion