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The UK water industry collects, treats and then supplies over 16,000 million litres per day of water to domestic and commercial customers and then collects and treats over 10,000 million litres of the resulting wastewaters
In 2002/3 compared with 1998/9, the proportion of waste disposed of in landfill sites fell to 43 per cent, although the actual amount disposed of in this way did not change significantly. The proportion of waste being recycled or reused increased to 42 per cent
In 2004 domestic energy consumption was 22 per cent above the 1980 level
A recent UK Government report, focussing on sustainable community developments, cites only about 20 examples of initiatives across the entire country, and most of these do not involve discrete communities attempting to work together
In 2005 for the UK, around 65 per cent of (non-marine) mammals and birds and 22 per cent of fish, amphibians and reptiles species assessed were considered "threatened"

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Welcome to Hadlow

Welcome to the Hadlow Sustainable Learning Community Site!

We hope you find the site interesting and would welcome your comments so please let us know what you think by emailing us. We will be making regular updates to the site to ensure that is interesting and informative.

For the latest copy of the Sustainability e-Newsletter, please click here.

Take action against climate change, and lower your energy bills Kent County Council, in partnership with the Kent Energy Centre (KEC) has run an exciting initiative aimed at reducing the total carbon footprint of Hadlow. For more information, please click here.

Foundation Degree in Sustainable Land Management
This degree (full or part time) has been running since September 2007. Please check the Hadlow College website for more details.

The College Sustainability Mission

Our Mission is...

“To energise students, staff, governors, local residents and commerce to work together in genuine partnership, towards a dynamic and regional Sustainable Learning Community, that is more self-reliant, has a long term future and gives everyone the chance for greater personal fulfilment.“

Key agricultural and environmental facts

Our main supplies of fossil fuels – oil and natural gas – will soon be in short supply, as global demand exceeds supply.
Our agriculture in Britain depends upon fertilisers, which are manufactured using fossil fuels.
Currently we can only feed about 73% of the population from British production, but with less fertiliser this will drop even further.
If oil and gas supplies become threatened, other countries will also have food production problems and will reduce food exports to us – we need to plan for national self sufficiency in our basic foods.
Global climate change threatens us all – not just with warmer summers, but with unstable, freak-weather that will make growing our own food more difficult. It will also make water supplies much more uncertain from existing sources – droughts will become common.
Our wildlife heritage will also be affected by Climate Change and may also be threatened if Britain becomes short of food and begins emergency-measures for widespread ploughing.

We can manage these problems if we start planning now – for regional Sustainable Learning Communities (both rural and urban) that can generate much of their own food supply even in the face of Climate Change, exchange and learn new skills, support an active local economy, maintain links with a sophisticated global e-learning network, and enjoy a positive, healthy and worthwhile quality of life.