Staff from the Housing, Health and Wellbeing team at Newark and Sherwood District Council visited the fair to talk about the benefits of reducing our meat consumption and to tempt us with some samples of delicious vegetable chilli (recipe below) with nachos and cheese. They also gave out additional plant-based recipes to try at home.Continue reading “Thoughts from the Green Fair – Meat Free Mondays”
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Thoughts from the Green Fair – Waste!
Green Southwell held our first Green Fair on 25th March, bringing together a range of groups with different emphases on what it means to be green. The day was wonderful. The sense of collaboration between different organisations and the quality of the conversations we had have lifted us, and lots of people made pledges onContinue reading “Thoughts from the Green Fair – Waste!”
Online event, 29 November: COP26 and Southwell – What next?
Responding to the big question raised by the COP26 yarnbombs and Southwell Climate March, this event asks what can we do as individuals and a community? This online event has been put together by Green Southwell to answer some of those questions for individuals, and to generate ideas for what we can do as aContinue reading “Online event, 29 November: COP26 and Southwell – What next?”
COP26 Yarn Bomb!
To highlight the breadth and depth of the ecological emergency, our town’s Yarn Bomb group brought the challenges facing our natural world to the streets of Southwell… on our bollards. We used some of the 112 bollards to explain some of the breadth and depth of the challenges faced by the climate and biodiversity. WeContinue reading “COP26 Yarn Bomb!”
COP26 Climate March
Thank you SO MUCH to the hundreds of people who joined Southwell’s COP26 ClimateMarch today. It is as important for us to meet and share concerns, ideas and actions as it is to highlight them to others. We kicked off the march with an excerpt from church leaders’ joint statement on #climatechange, so for thoseContinue reading “COP26 Climate March”
Helping Newark and Sherwood with its environmental ambitions
In July 2019 our District Council declared a climate emergency, and in September set out a plan of action for how it would approach the challenge . Having spoken at the Council meeting, and launching a petition calling for urgent follow-up action, we were invited to give our views to the relevant committee and theirContinue reading “Helping Newark and Sherwood with its environmental ambitions”
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