Green Camden

Most people want us to help reduce the costs of going green and to provide advice on how to do it.

That’s why we’ve set up Small steps, to make it easy to find everything you need to go green. We also help reduce the costs of going green in a number of ways, from providing grants to insulate your home, to funding vouchers for using real nappies.

You can find out about all the initiatives set up to help you by clicking through the Living, Travelling and Working pages of this website.

Green Action for Change is our new environmental sustainability plan (2011 – 2020), and outlines our goals to create a low carbon and low waste borough, and to increase green actions taken by residents, businesses and schools.

Below you can find some examples of the projects we are working on to tackle environmental issues in Camden:

• We've made our own Green Promise by joining the 10:10 campaign and pledging to cut our emissions by 10% by 2010.
• find out about our innovative abseiling insulation project, which got coverage on the BBC!
• we’re helping businesses reduce their carbon footprint through our Climate Change Alliance
• read about how we’re greening our fleet of vehicles
• check out our award winning Travelfootprint website, which helps people work out the environmental impacts of different forms of travel.
• find out what we’re doing to promote healthy and sustainable food through our food strategy
• find out about waste in Camden and how we manage the collection and recycling of it
• read about what we’re doing to reduce air pollution in our Air Quality Action Plan
• find out more about the mapping of the River Fleet, most of which is underground

You can find out more about what the council is doing by looking through our environment pages