Community Eco-Challenge, Southern Group Environmental Health Committee, Riverside House, Armagh, BT61 9EG. Tel:02837515800  Fax:02837515801  Email:info@communityecochallenge.com

Calculate your Ecological footprint! Click here      Calculate your Ecological footprint! Click here      Calculate your Ecological footprint! Click here      Calculate your Ecological footprint! Click here COMMUNITY ECO-CHALLENGE  The Community Eco-Challenge is a pilot project for Northern Ireland. It will help 5 local community groups (100 households) over the next year, to calculate how sustainable (or not) their lifestyles are. Through close mentoring and support by the Community Eco-Challenge team, the groups will be encouraged to make simple lifestyle changes in order to move towards a way of life which reduces their impact on the natural world. The 5 participating groups will look at the four “big hitters” in the NI ecological footprint – FOOD TRANSPORT ENERGY WASTE Anne & Lynn from the Community Eco-Challenge will be encouraging households to move to a one planet lifestyle. “One of the big parts of this project is to show people that being more environmentally-friendly is easy, can be good for your health and good for your bank balance. Decisions taken every day on how warm we keep our homes, the type of food we buy, how we travel and whether we reduce, reuse or recycle our waste have an impact on the environment,” said Anne Greene, Senior Project Officer. ECO-CHALLENGE COMMUNITY GROUPS Armagh — MullacreevieDevelopment Association Banbridge — Magnet Women’s Group Craigavon — Chrysalis Women’s Centre Dungannon and South Tyrone — Willowbank Community Resource Centre and Equality 2000 Ltd Newry and Mourne — Menaware