A campaign run by the Peasedown Environment Group (PEG) called 2K4PSJ asks people to get out of their cars and walk or cycle if their journey is less than 1km each way. The aim is to reduce the village’s environmental impact, but with the spiralling cost of fuel it is also saving people money.

Nearly the whole of the village is within 1km of the village centre if you walk or cycle, so it’s not difficult to achieve. But, because of the design of the village, some car journeys into the centre can be as much as 3km each way. For people making that journey each way almost 1kg of CO2 is produced and it costs 70p just for the fuel at today’s prices. Walking or cycling into the village saves you that 70p and cuts your carbon footprint. It also helps you keep fit, meet people, slow down and hear the birds sing.

PEG recognises that some people need to use cars and there are occasions when the weather or the load means you can’t leave the car at home but is the car always needed?

It would be great if as many people as possible could commit to make that change and walk or cycle 2km for Peasedown. PEG will be dropping a leaflet to parts of the village this week which explains more about this and we’d like to see people signing up to 2K4PSJ. Return the response slip (also available at The Hive reception) or come in to the Terracycle collection on Thursday, 21st and Saturday, 23rd or into the Repair Café on 23rd April.

PEG are also actively campaigning to make cycling in the village safer, easier and more secure.

Please do use our Terracycle collections for some of those items that you can’t recycle in the kerbside collections (ink-jet cartridges, pens, tooth brushes, crisp packets and much more) and come to the Repair Café to get those broken items back up and running.

If you have ideas of how we could do more for the environment in the village please go on our Peasedown Environment Group Facebook page and let us know and don’t forget the Peasedown Environment Group Wildlife Facebook page where you can discover what people are seeing in the village. Ian Souter