Our themes are:

“Natural Basingstoke” – protecting and promoting bio-diversity and nature conservation within our borough;

“Low Carbon Basingstoke” – practical steps to reduce CO2 emissions in the borough and tackle fuel poverty, e.g.:

• Energy conservation;
• Renewable energy;
• Sustainable transport;
• Carbon footprint reduction (individual and corporate);
• Reducing pollution.

“Resourceful Basingstoke” – improving awareness and use of local resources, e.g.:

• Resilience and skills;
• Recycling, re-using and reducing;
• Organic farming and permaculture;
• Water and wastewater;
• Tackling issues of consumption and consumerism.

“Habitable Basingstoke” – promoting plans to build sufficient sustainable housing in a pleasant environment for our children, e.g.:

• Low-consumption housing by design;
• Sustainable building materials;
• Natural health and wellbeing;
• Tackling litter, dumping and casual damage to environment;
• Education, culture and community towards a sustainable environment.

“Enterprising Basingstoke” – promoting public and private investment in, and use of, local schemes and enterprises to address all the above themes.