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Community Climate Action Networking Events

Thu, 31 January 2019

Saturday 9th March - Sumac Centre, Nottingham
Saturday 23rd March, Loundsley Green Community Centre, Chesterfield
Both events: 12pm-4pm
Free event. Bring something to share for lunch

An opportunity for eco-focused community groups in Derbyshire, Derby, Nottingham & Nottinghamshire to meet to share their projects, successes, struggles and ideas. There will also be a workshop at each event focused on creating and maintaining a group that endures and thrives.
 
Confirmed Nottingham workshops:

  • Creating and maintaining a healthy group culture. A space in which to reflect on how your group and members are doing and how you can give yourselves the best chance of being a group that endures and thrives. Caroline Harmon, Marches Energy Agency
  • Climate friendly gardening. Tracey Lloyd, Windmill Community Gardens
  • Greening Beeston. Anne Jennings. Greening Beeston will also be bringing their eco dolls house which they use at community events to help people learn about eco friendly homes.
  • Campaigning to make it easier to build eco homes locally. Claire and James Healey, EnVelop Homes
  • Extinction Rebellion: declaring a climate emergency.

Confirmed Chesterfield workshops:

  • Creating and maintaining a healthy group culture. A space in which to reflect on how your group and members are doing and how you can give yourselves the best chance of being a group that endures and thrives. Caroline Harmon, Marches Energy Agency
  • Creating opportunities for anyone to experience cycling. Alastair Meikle, Inclusive Pedals and Cycling Without Age
  • Hayfield Sustainable Transport: a minibus car club. Roland Strube, Hayfield Sustainable Transport
  • Local Anti-Fracking campaigns. Greg Hewitt
  • Campaigning to make it easier to build eco homes locally. Claire and James Healey, EnVelop Homes
  • Combating poor air quality. Peter Robinson, Derby Climate Coalition

If you are part of a community group and would like to bring a short informal workshop/talk (25 minutes) about a project you are running/have run please get in touch: caroline.harmon@mea.org.uk / 07748 508704. Otherwise, come and be inspired.

Please indicate you are attending either via the Facebook events or by emailing Caroline Harmon: caroline.harmon@mea.org.uk

Facebook events:

February Newsletter Out Now!

Thu, 31 January 2019

Our Feburary newsletter, packed with all the latest community climate action news from Nottinghamshire, Nottingham, Derbyshire & Derby is out now. Read it online. Subscribe, for free, to future editions here.

January Newsletter Out Now!

Thu, 17 January 2019

Our January newsletter is out now and packed full of all the latest on cliamte change action in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Derby.

Nottingham Plastic Free, Zero Waste Pop-Up Shop Open This Christmas

Tue, 18 December 2018

If you want to shop plastic free this Christmas then NottmZWC, a pop-up shop, is back and offering plastic-free and sustainable shopping a every weekend until Christmas. Bring your own containers to buy from a wide range of dry bulk food and zero waste personal care and household options to help you shop sustainably and keep your plastic footprint to a minimum.

Teh shop is open each Friday-Sunday unitl 23rd December and can be found at Rough Trade on Broad Street in Nottingham.

There are store cupboard essentials in bulk such as rice and pasta, tasty wholefoods and pulses, healthy snacks such as nuts and dried fruits, plus luxuries like tea and coffee. With loads of vegan and organic options, there is also a range of household goods such as unpackaged soap, wooden toothbrushes, shampoo bars and sustainable cotton buds. Plus items from local producers too such as Nottingham's Zero Waste Maker reclaimed products, make-up pads, produce bags and un-sponges etc.

https://bit.ly/2TX8vwQ

Support Available to Run a Restart Repair Event

Tue, 18 December 2018


The Restart Project is offering support to groups who want to run community events where people teach each other to repair broken stuff so that they can value and use them for longer. They’re building a network of people who want to do something about the throwaway culture around us by helping people repair stuff.
 
There are people in our communities who already know how to fix things, and others who want to learn. By bringing them together in a local repair event, you can have an immediate impact on waste in your area. The Restart Project takes this further by using data and stories collected from events to help demand better, more sustainable products for all. Their Fixometer tool allows you to make a note of every repair attempted, which not only enables you to measure the environmental impact of your events (useful for funding bids), but also add to a growing database of repairs around the world. This data is used to talk to policymakers and manufacturers in the fight for more sustainable products. Using real world data from local communities can help influence legislation and magnify our collective impact.

The Restart Project offers how-to guides, event-management tools and personalised advice: https://bit.ly/2racBoi