Tools & links
Catch up on our recent Zoom meetings
"The Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group's role in linking thriving wildlife with sustainable food production" - Bel Whitwam. Plus a case study from Matthew Riddle talking about flood management and sustainable farming on Kyneton Park Farm in South Gloucestershire.
(Original meeting: 10th May 2021)
https://www.sustainablethornbury.org/_resources/2021Meetings/fwag.mp4
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Nuclear's Role in Meeting Climate Targets - Dr. Kevin Howard
(Original meeting: 22nd April 2021)
Plants for pollinators in public spaces, with guest speaker Catriona Bass (Eynsham Nature Recovery) - a talk for councillors and local organisations in Wotton and surrounding parishes.
(Original meeting: 16th April 2021)
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Land Use Climate Projects in Wotton-under-Edge and surrounding areas, as well as overseas
Original meeting: Oct 22, 2020 8PM
Meeting Recording:
Access Passcode: Jq!iBs4H
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Professor David Waltham, The 100-tonne, low carbon diet
Original meeting: Sept 24, 2020 8PM
Meeting Recording:
Access Passcode: U0FF*a&K
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Recommended tools
WWF Carbon footprint calculator
The World Wildlife Fund offer an easy-to-use carbon footprint calculator. Whilst not going in to granular detail, this calculator gives an idea of what your carbon footprint might be, how it compares to others and what you can do to reduce your carbon footprint.
Home energy directory
Our team pulled together a Home energy directory, giving details of all the services available locally (some with funding) that can help you reduce energy use in your home.
Five-minute online articles
"Good Energy's 5-minute read on how Climate Change and weather are connected, and how this affects us here in the UK. The article also includes a great video from the Met Office" - Sam and Nick
Related groups & organisations
The following local groups may interest you…
Wotton Green Drinks meet once a month at The Star pub in Wotton to hear from a guest speaker. Contact wottongreendrinks@gmail.com to find out more.
Wotton Town Council climate working group work in collaboration with groups like ours. The group formed in July 2019 and set out to ascertain what the council can feasibly and practically do about climate change.
Wotton Community Parc hold regular tree planting events within the parc (the land around the skate park and community orchard).
Wotton, Charfield and Kingswood Greenway Group aim to create a safe walking, cycling and jogging route connecting the three locations, and potentially extending further in future. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/wckgreenwaygroup
Stroud District Lucky Severn Community Lottery
Like to play Lucky Severn Community Lottery? Buy your tickets from our page and 50% of the lottery ticket price comes to us, plus 10% goes to other local good causes. If you enter before 26th June '21 you could also win 12 monthly fruit and veg boxes delivered to your door from Boxxfresh.
https://www.luckysevernlottery.co.uk/support/wotton-area-climate-action-network
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