Action on climate emergency
March’s Green Cafe features the ‘Circular Yorkshire’ Campaign – which aims to help combat the climate crisis by making the most of every resource we have. Come and find out more and how you can get involved. Event timings: 10.30-11am: Cafe and chat over refreshments about topical issues 11-12 Noon: Presentations from: *Erin Wheeler of ...
June’s Green Cafe is part of ‘Settle Great Big Green Week’ and features a presentation about the importance of soil health. Our speaker, Martyna Krol, will take us through some facts about soil, what makes it alive and abundant and how soil can help us to grow more nutritious food. Discover how we can adapt ...
As part of September's Green Cafe we will have a talk from Peter Myers, Chair of Settle-Carlisle Railway Development Company. In 'On Track to Cut Carbon? The Settle-Carlisle Railway's Place in the Climate Emergency' Peter will cover the often conflicting local and national expectations of 'our' railway, and the added challenges of the network's transition ...
Join us for our last Green Cafe of the year. Our cafe will be running for fairtrade tea, coffee and mince pies until 12 Noon. Fairtrade items for Christmas will be on sale. Have a 'Sustainable Christmas'. Check out these ideas from Skipton Methodists to help you have a: Sustainable Christmas 23 And...let us know ...
Whilst the climate crisis is being caused by wealthy and industrialised countries, the greatest impacts are being experienced by countries with very low individual carbon footprints. These countries also have the fewest resources for dealing with these impacts. Hear more from Izzie about this key issue and Global Justice Now’s campaign to make sure that ...
This is the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds' (RSPB) annual count of garden birds - taking place over the weekend of 26th-28th January (just pick an hour to do your survey between those dates). Find out how to make the most of your survey hour and sign-up here.
Check out all about World Wetlands Day here: https://www.worldwetlandsday.org/
Take part in the Fairtrade 90KG Rice Challenge at February's Green Cafe. This year ACE Food Group is starting off with the Fairtrade 90kg Rice Challenge. This is how much a subsistence farmer has to sell in order to pay for one years secondary school education. Education is very expensive for them. We have one ...
Find out more about World Wildlife Day and how to get involved here
Our March Green Cafe (timings at the end) will focus on what we can do to make Settle plastic free with an update of actions planned by the Settle Plastic Free group. Melanie Fryer (ACE's Food Group lead) will also introduce Greenpeace's The Big Plastic Count, taking place between 11th-17th March. Information about how to ...
We will be joining Yorkshire Dales Millenium Trust (YDMT) to do some tree planting as part of the 'Wildshare with Mearbeck' scheme, which is just outside Settle. Please sign-up direct with YDMT, letting Mike Appleton know that you would like to come along and he will also provide more details: mike.appleton@ydmt.org You can find out ...
At April's Green Cafe (timings at the end) we will be joined by Fiona Protheroe - Climate Emergency Officer at North Yorkshire Council - who will be telling us about how the Council is delivering its climate change strategy 2023 to 2030, through a 'climate strategy delivery pathway' and answering your questions about how this ...