Mitigation and Adaptation - What can we do?
The Focus of Our Efforts
Mitigation means taking actions to reduce emissions and limit global warming.
Adaptation means taking actions to adapt to changes that are inevitable and that can't be mitigated.
Kilcock 4 Climate Action believes we need to do both. As a community we will come together and prioritise our actions based on risk assessment and best practice. This page gives examples of actions and projects we have on our plan and is designed to inspire and give links and information to help us. See our upload of our detailed plans.
Energy + Transport
Some Ideas
Set up an SEC sustanable Energy community YYY Kilcock SEC
Car pooling App for Kilcock
Car sharing initiative
Air bnb for cars https://www.joe.ie/business/airbnb-cars-fleet-604681
Bike Parking
Local Bike Scheme (like Dublin City Bike)
Retrofitting education Y
Retrofitting co-op
Advocate for Access Walkways in Kilcock to make pedestrian Y mavigation of the town easier
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Education & Support
Ideas
Climate and biodiversity education YY
Growing your own food YY
Facilitation and communication Y
Adapting and Building Resilience - The Work that Reconnects - Joanna Macy Y
Community events Y
Gathering Data *
Learning new skills or bringing back old lost skills Y
Identify and connect with vulnerable members of the community *
Emergency Planning *
* - beginning this action
Sustainability
Ideas
Develop a local currency
Set up Zerowaste Kilcock
Zerowaste co-op
Community Supported Agriculture *
Local Working hubs **
Clothes swap events
Community events Y
Community Gardens YYY
Town composter Y
Town Biodigester
Equipment Library
* = working on it
Y = in progress / some done
YYY = Lots done
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Biodiversity
Making a Difference
Collaborate with Tidy Towns YYY
Re-wild areas YY
Encourage residents to allow gardens to re-wild Y
Bug hotels Y
Collect data on use of glyphosphate and other sprays
Campaigns YY
Eco Audits
Biodiversity Festivals or Events Y
Waterways - water quality
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