Reading Climate Action Network website
In this second interview with Ayo Sokale, I talk about the Reading Climate Change Partnership (RCCP): who we are, and how we are trying to Get Reading Ready for the challenges of climate change. This website, and the Reading Climate Change Strategy that it hosts, are going to help us to deliver our vision. However, it …
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We had a fantastic launch event on the 13th June. This opened the 6 month consultation on the 3rd Reading Climate Change Strategy. Please do get involved: your ideas, energy and commitment are going to be really important to make a real success of this. You can take part in a number of different ways …
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It was my great pleasure to be interviewed by Ayo Sokale – one of Caversham’s new Councillors. This is the first in a series of five interviews. In this we talk about our plans for new Reading Climate Change Strategy. We are writing the new strategy between now and Christmas. Please do get involved – …
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In 2010, eight million tons of plastic trash ended up in the ocean from coastal countries—far more than the total that has been measured floating on the surface in the ocean’s “garbage patches.” That’s the bad news. The even worse news is that the tonnage is on target to increase tenfold in the next decade …
Whiskas is the leading partner in a new European pet food container recycling programme to collect the plastic packaging that is not recycled through door to door collection systems. The system works through teracycle https://www.whiskas.co.uk/terracycle , an organisation that recycles a whole load of post consumer packaging from Pringles containers to Colgate tooth products and …
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It’s Spring again, and I can’t believe I’m half-way through my term as chair of the RCCP. The board met this morning, which was great. There is a busyness and anticipation about the Partnership at the moment…not surprising given all that is going on this year. These last few months I have been focused on …
Earth Hour is a global WWF (formerly known as World Wildlife Fund) climate change initiative which brings attention to the effects of climate change by asking people to switch of lights at homes and businesses for an hour at 8.30pm (20:30), local time, usually on the last Saturday of March. This Year it falls on 30th …
Reading Community Energy Society (RCES) is launching a new community share offer this week, inviting local people and organisations to invest in renewable energy for the greater Reading area. RCES is a community benefit society owned by its members and already runs 12 solar energy systems which have been generating clean, green energy for the …
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Clothing is a necessity and for many a way of expressing ourselves and boosting confidence, yet the process of making them is extremely wasteful and polluting. The production of these textiles itself, whether they’re synthetic or natural, is also causing harm. Kay Politowicz, Professor of Textile Design at the University of the Arts in London, says …
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The quarterly RCCP Board meeting took place on Jan 25th. The board spent time discussing the process for developing Reading’s 3rd Climate Change Strategy to run 2020-2025. It was agreed there was a need to develop RCAN to enhance outreach into Reading community, through engagement events each strategy theme. There will be a public engagement …
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