The future

Why worry about trying to be greener?

Plymouth is already one of the greenest cities in the UK and that's official.

However we're still living way beyond our means in the south west. If everyone on the planet consumed as much as an average person in the south west, we would need three planet earths to keep us going!

As a Council we want to encourage city residents and businesses to join us in cutting energy costs, reducing congestion, improving the local environment and tackling fuel poverty in our communities.

Going green isn't all about climate change. It's also about creating a sustainable community - that’s a community that is healthy, socially just, productive and living within environmental limits. And surely that's something we all want?