Climate Change – should we be worried?

SCCAP meeting 21.6.2010

The next full meeting of the Salisbury City Community Area Partnership – which will also be the AGM for the Partnership – takes Climate Change as its theme.

The meeting will be held at the newly refurbished Quaker Meeting House on Wilton Road on Monday 21st June, 7 – 9 pm.

There will be speakers from Wiltshire Council and South Wiltshire Agenda 21 as well as displays and information.

Admission free – all welcome

“An essential documentary … if you like eating see this film”

Daniel Etherington – Channel 4

Studio Theatre, Ashley Road, Salisbury

Thursday 22nd April, 7:30 pm

Doors open 6:45, Bar available

Tickets £5, Students £3

To reserve a seat contact South Wiltshire Agenda 21 by email. Reserved tickets must be collected at the Theatre by 7:15 pm.

The honeybee is under threat, mass die-offs are occurring and no-one knows why. This film explores the collapse of the Earth’s pollinators through the eyes of those whose livelihoods depend on them.

Introduction in music and dance by Wiltshire College (Salisbury)

For more about the film and to sign an online petition to help secure funds for a systematic review of the impact of pesticides on bees visit the film website

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 

View the Wiltshire Council Climate Change presentation.

Read more on Action on Climate Change in Wiltshire

“I defy anyone coming out not to feel like they’ve got to make a difference ” 

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.

From the makers of McLibel, a Spanner Films production, this film tackles the elephant in the room, and confronts the relationship between oil and climate change. Starring Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, it uses ‘archive’ footage from 2007 and asks, why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

Age of Stupid website with making of and reviews

Cycling in Wiltshire / Photo: Chris Neal

Saturday 4 July 2009

Procession followed by events in Castle Meadows for all the family.

Cycle ride from Alderbury to Wilton along the proposed Sustrans Connect 2 route.

More details on the COGS website http://www.cogsbike.org.uk/

Change of wind in Wiltshire? / Photo: Andrew Dennes

Come and listen to Ariane talk about how our county plans to lead on the issue of climate change and reduce Wiltshire’s carbon footprint.

Date: Thursday 12 November 2009, 6.30 pm
Venue: The City Hall, Salisbury (map)

Keep visiting this site to find out details of venue and time, to be confirmed. And in the meantime, find out more on how our local representatives are tackling the causes of climate change.

Wiltshire Council signs Nottingham Declaration
Environment and Sustainable Development in Wiltshire
South West Climate Change Impacts Partnership
Fair Shares, Fair Choice campaign by Sustainability South West

City Hall Meeting Room, Salisbury
Thursday 22 January 6.30-8.30pm

We will be looking at our priorities for action and the future structure of the organisation at a time of change.

The meeting will encourage active participation so that everyone present will have a chance to contribute. There are many people interested in environmental issues who are not currently members of SWA21 but may be active in other groups or who as individuals are doing their own bit towards creating a ‘greener’ future. We would like to ask all our members, organisations and individuals, to speak to people they know and invite them to join us for this brain-storming session.

Further details will be made available soon.

With best wishes for Christmas,
Pam Rouquette (Sec. South Wiltshire Agenda 21)

St. Francis Church Hall, The Neve Room
Tuesday 13 January 2009, 7.30pm

Help to make Salisbury the first Plastic Bag Free City!

A letter from SCRAP: Salisbury City Residents against Packaging:

Dear supporter,

Please copy this to anyone who may be interested.
The next meeting of SCRAP Salisbury City Residents’ Action on Packaging is Tuesday 13th January 2009 7.30pm at St.Francis Church Hall, The Neve Room. We hope to see you there, and as many friends as you can bring along.

Interesting things have been happening since the official launch on Nov 22nd. Grants are being pursued, and the results of a questionnaire survey will be available by the meeting.

Firstly, a happy and healthy New Year to you all.

As a community based campaign, it’s your ideas that count. Come and hear what people have suggested. Please bring your ideas to the meeting, and tell us what you’d like to see happen, and what you can offer.

Where to distribute the re-usable cotton shopping bags that remain from the 1000 donated by Co-Op?
How to encourage shops to use fewer plastic bags?
How to identify which shops are becoming Plastic Bag Free?
Would a newsletter be a good idea?

Tony Langham, on behalf of SCRAP. www.banplasticbags.org.uk

A meeting has been arranged to discuss the strategy and aims for the group:

St Francis’ Church Hall
Thursday 18 September, from 7 to 8 pm

Download SCRAP flyer

SCRAP (Salisbury City Residents Action on Packaging) is a group of City residents who wish to get rid of unsustainable packaging in Salisbury. Its first objective is to eliminate the use of single-use plastic bags in the City, and an initial action is to supply each household in the City with a shopping bag made from sustainable materials. Although SCRAP has been established with the active involvement of two ward Councillors, it is a non-political group, and it already has support from all local political parties, Local Agenda 21 and the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. We wish to broaden our support to include local businesses and other interested parties.

We have made considerable progress with SCRAP. Grants for start-up costs and the provision of bags have been applied for, and prospects look good. A further application for funding from the District Council’s General Community Fund is in progress. Assuming all our bids are successful we will have sufficient funding to meet our first objective – the provision of a sustainable shopping bag for each household in the City. Our website is virtually complete and will soon go live for Beta testing – the last stage before it is formally launched. A draft constitution has been completed, an outline strategy for achieving the first objective has been developed, and plans for a high profile public launch are well advanced.

The committee now believe that we should place our strategy and initial action plan before our supporters, and seek their comments, suggestions and agreement to the initial way ahead. We have therefore arranged a meeting at St Francis’ Church Hall on Thursday 18 September, from 7 until 8 p.m. and we would very much like you to attend.

If you know of anyone else who might be interested in becoming a supporter (no financial commitment!) could you let them know about the meeting (and pass on the flyer); we would welcome anyone who can make an input to his initiative.