One Planet Living for Sutton

BioRegional are working with the London Borough of Sutton (an independent council) to deliver One Planet Living across the borough. This project plans to include mass retrofit of energy efficiency measures to existing homes, a borough wide Energy Services Company to supply renewable energy, sustainable food initiatives, a borough wide green transport plan and much more.

One Planet Living in Sutton is a hugely ambitious programme of work - getting the whole borough from a 3 planet level to a 1 planet level will take imagination, hard work and innovation from every resident, business and organisation in Sutton as well as input from organisations with expertise in each of the principles. But its not all hard work - we hope that it will be fun, inspirational and great for building community spirit.

“Sutton Council has led the way in promoting environmental awareness for over 20 years and we adopted the One Planet Living principles into our environmental sustainability strategy for the borough. So this is part of our ongoing commitment to make Sutton a zero-carbon, One Planet Living borough. Our aim is to encourage everyone in Sutton to use one planet’s worth of resources and still live comfortably. At the moment we are all consuming roughly three planet’s worth of resources and we need to drastically reduce this because we cannot sustain this over the longer term.”

- Cllr Colin Hall, deputy leader of Sutton Council

For more information visit the One Planet Sutton website.