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Have you tried composting with a Green Cone or Green Johanna? You can put all kinds of cooked and uncooked food waste in them,including meat, fish, bones and dairy produce and make compost. We have a Green Johanna and although our other bins show signs of wildlife invasion,it seems to be very secure and resistant to any kind of burrowing! If you don’t have one already you can get leaflets from Wiltshire Council to get a Cone for £20 and/or a Johanna for £25 and a chance to win £250. For more info visit www.greencone.com Happy composting! Information and Inspiration from Winchester’s Climate Change conference
Deadline for entries 22nd January. Read the criteria for entry and download an application form. ” It is the voices of the people on the frontline of climate change that need to be heard“.
Greg Condliffe Newbeck Cottage, Flower Lane, Amesbury is no ordinary house! It is jammed full of innovative ideas for reducing its carbon footprint. Architect Greg Condliffe, of Harnham, Salisbury was nominated by South Wiltshire Agenda 21 in this year’s Regen South West Green Energy Awards. Greg was runner-up in the housing category and was the only award winner from Wiltshire. Regen SW is the sustainable energy agency for South West England, funded by the SW Regional Development Agency. Its mission is to speed up the transition to a low-carbon economy by unlocking sustainable-energy business opportunities, accelerating the uptake of the region’s renewable-energy resources and championing effective energy-demand-reduction initiatives in the region. Read more on Salisbury Architect Scoops Regional Green Energy Award. On Saturday 5th December 2009, ahead of the crucial UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, tens of thousands of people from all walks of life will flow through the streets of London to demonstate their support for a safe climate future for all. Visit the wave website for more information or view the pdf. There are still a number of seats available on a coach leaving from Salisbury. For more information please contact us. For an update on coaches leaving from all over Wiltshire together with contact details go to http://www.wiltshireworldchangers.org/news/89 South Wiltshire Agenda 21’s next public meeting is on Thursday November 12th at 6:30 pm at the City Hall in Salisbury.
Caroline Lucas MEP The Age of Stupid is back by popular demand. Following a sell-out performance in September there will be a further showing of this blockbuster film about climate change at 7:30pm on Thursday 22nd October at the Studio Theatre Ashley Road Salisbury – cost £5. To avoid disappointment you can reserve a seat in advance by emailing us (see ‘Contact’ page). Reserved tickets need to be picked up at the theatre by 7:15pm on the night. Read more on Age of Stupid – further Salisbury showing October 22nd There was great concern across Wiltshire when 9 councillors signed up to a motion put to the Wiltshire Council meeting on 15.9.09 requesting that the Council withdraw from the Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change (a commitment to tackle the causes and effects of Climate Change). However there was cause for celebration when the motion was resoundingly defeated – the final recorded vote showed 6 in favour of the motion and 84 voting against (i.e. in support of the Declaration). Not all of those who had signed up to the motion in fact supported it after the debate! Read more on Wiltshire Council affirm support for Nottingham Declaration & 10:10 Campaign
SCRAP gets into action in the Old George Mall on Plastic Bag Free Day. Robert Key MP joined Tony Langham and other SCRAP members in attracting passing trade. There was no difficulty in persuading enthusiastic shoppers to ditch their plastic bags in exchange for free cotton bags made in India by victims of the Tsunami. 400 bags were exchanged in less than half an hour!
SCRAP (Salisbury City Residents Action on Packaging) is a group with a mission, determined to make Salisbury the first Plastic Bag Free city in the country. Find out more and sign the pledge on www.banplasticbags.org.uk |
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