Derbyshire County Council is working to reduce its carbon emissions through energy efficiency and promoting renewable options.  Read more on the climate change pages at www.derbyshire.gov.uk/climatechange.  Here are some other projects they are involved with - including the Everybody's Talking About Climate Change Campaign.

The County Council has been working over a number of years to improve energy efficiency, including sustainable energy in its newly designed buildings and promote renewable energy installations where appropriate.  Below is a list of what they have done and are currently doing.  These are just a few examples of the many ways the County Council is doing their bit.

Walton and Holymoorside Primary School

Derbyshire's first sustainable school building including high energy efficiency, rainwater harvesting, passive solar design to reduce heat demand and maximise light into the building.

Herbert Strutt Primary School

The planing and development of an energy self-sufficient school in Belper with integrated renewale technologies to generate energy electricity and sell surpluses to the grid.

Markham Environmental Technology and Training Centre

State of the art flagship sustainable building with business germination units.  Includes: wind turbine, photovoltaic cells and wood fuelled boiler.

Markham Willows

Planned plantation of short rotation willow coppice which will feed the wood fuelled boilers.

The installation of a wind turbine at Shipley Country Park

To generate electricity to supplement the energy load required by Shipley's operation.

Street lighting in Derbyshire runs on renewably generated electricity

All street lighgint under the control of Derbyshire County Council, is run on renewable energy.  We are seeking further efficiency savings to reduce the use of electricity for these installations.

Derbyshire County Council has signed the Nottingham Declaration

This charges signatories to reduce carbon emissions through a planned programme of energy efficiency, renewables and community leadership.

Use of reflective traffic signs

To be phased in on replacement and in new schemes.

Staff car share scheme

Provision of cycle and clothes lockers and the provision of showers to encourage staff cycling.  The car-share scheme is now part of the car-share Derbyshire scheme www.carsharederbyshire.com

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Local Authorities' Partnership (LAEP)

The County Council has been a memeber since 1996.  All 19 local authorities' in the two counties are members.  The benefits are joint working, support, information exchange, best practice, networking and we have two flagship projects running currently: Everybody's Talking About Climate Change and the Sustainable Procurement Project.

'An Inconvenient Truth' has been shown to staff recently

This raises awareness of climate change as part of the Local Authorities' Carbon Management Programme.

Copies of 'An Inconvenient Truth' now held by all county libraries

Available on loan to the general public free of charge.