In 2013 EAG CC became the world’s first carbon balanced cricket club. Since then we have made incremental improvements at every level of the club to lower our emissions. 2021 is a huge year for our green ambitions with several new major initiatives – and plenty of opportunity for you to be involved!
- Neutral Territory, under the guise of El Presidente Richard Parker, has launched the Carbon Centurions www.carboncenturions.com project. This aims to recruit 100+ cricket clubs to measure, balance and actively reduce their carbon footprint. Being green has worked for EAG and we want to help others match (and exceed) our own performance. We are sharing all our work with any interested club to help them on this path. To celebrate this amazing project we have arranged a cricket match on Friday 2nd July, starting at 6pm which will feature an EAG CC team against a Carbon Centurions select XI. If you want to play, update your availability, if not please come along and join the fun
- Our Carbon Champion Anna Collins identified kit recycling as an area of improvement for the club. We have started to supply unused equipment, at a nominal cost, to a raft of new youth players and those making the transition to hardball this season. This recycles kit that would have gone to landfill, saved the parents a huge expense and meets the ECB rules on non-sharing of equipment.
But that was not enough for Anna. She then contacted the Lord’s Taverners and signed EAG CC up as a kit collection hub sports-kit-recycling – the only one in North Essex. We are now collecting kit not only from our players (if you have any unused equipment please put it in the umpires room) but also from teams we play against and the general public. This kit will then be distributed to developing countries giving them access to vital cricket equipment.
Please get involved by supporting these programmes. If you want to know more please go to EAGCC Green initiatives / Read about us in The Guardian - HERE / Hear us on BBC radio Essex here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09ht0kt
Many thanks, Sam Collins