Coming up next…with more detailed information on these and future events see our ‘Events Calendar’ page. Check back regularly or on our Facebook and Twitter pages to find out about new events, as they are added.
Tuesday 19th October from 7pm – ‘Walking to COP26’ a talk by climate justice campaigner Push Krishnamurthy. Join us on Zoom:
https://zoom.us/j/6255547892?
PAST EVENTS
Saturday 9th October – October’s Green Cafe (including AGM and speakers)
Featured our usual catch-up and feedback about climate & biological emergency related topics, our 2021 AGM and a presentation:
‘The Great Big Green Week’ took place between 18th-26th September) – just before the major international climate summit COP 26 comes to Glasgow (1-12th November), ‘The Great Big Green Week’ was a perfect time to celebrate the difference we can make when we come together to win a greener, fairer future for our environment and people all around the world. Our week was part of a UK-wide week of action being organised by the Climate Coalition more information about them here: https://www.theclimatecoalition.org/ and featured tree care, preserving talk, transport session and a Give and Take Day.
September’s Green Cafe featured: an ‘away’ to take the opportunity of joining Clapham Sustainability Group’s ‘information day’ at in Clapham village hall. A report of this can be found in our September Newsletter.
August 2021’s Cafe featured a catch-up in-person after this prolonged period of being virtual. We talked about our reactions to the UN’s latest climate report and organised distribution of our transport and energy survey until the end of September (more on that once data has been analysed).
June 2021’s Cafe featured: ‘Making the most of Home Energy’
Do you know your FITs from your SEGs and is it worthwhile to install solar panels since Feed in Tariffs were replaced by less generous Smart Export Guarantees? And what about heating your whole house and hot water with a heat pump? Government plans suggest they are one of the key ways to decarbonise home heating. Do they really work here in the north, and how?
These were just some of the questions discussed along with hearing from an ACE member with experience of generating and using their own electricity in Settle, taking advantage of battery storage.
May 2021’s Cafe featured: Settle Town Council plans to counter the climate emergency
Settle Town Councillors presented their recently agreed Climate and Biodiversity Policy Report. The report was adopted by the Town Council on 1 March and sets out actions they will take to become carbon neutral by 2030 and improve biodiversity of their owned and managed land. Cllr Robert Bellfield who led the team giving the presentation commented:
“The Council are committed to their Climate Change & Biodiversity Policy and Plan, and would like to invite local businesses and the people of Settle to join them in taking action to mitigate climate change and the loss of biodiversity.”
March 2021 – Spring Conference on Zoom: ‘Growing the Green Recovery’ – more details of the conference here:
Growing the Green Recovery – details, speaker bios and programme
Featured the following speakers:
- Neil Heseltine – Chair of Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority
- Anna Clayton/Melanie Fryer – Food Futures Lancaster
- Carol Douglas – Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust’s ‘Together for Trees’ project
- John Forbes – Cumbria Action for Sustainability’s ‘Zero Carbon Cumbria’ project
February 2021’s Green Cafe featured: A discussion about the film ‘2040’ and Members meeting.
January 2021’s Green Cafe featured: an introduction to Yorkshire Dales Millenium Trust’s ‘Together for Trees’ project.
ACE is one of four community groups who will be helping create 26 hectares of new native woodland, restore 1km of hedgerow and plant individual landscape trees to help mitigate the impact of ash dieback.
November 2020 featured our ‘Making the Most of the Green Recovery’ conference on Zoom
With calls for ‘Build Back Better’ and the release of the World Wildlife Fund’s latest ‘Living Planet’ report in September, highlighting the urgent need for a ‘sustainable, resilient and healthy post COVID-19 world for people and nature’, ACE’s conference gave us the opportunity to hear about ways we can address these challenging times. We had a great line-up of speakers and topics including the innovative approaches Cornwall County Council are taking to tackle the climate emergency; Community Wealth Building; UK Youth Climate Action Coalition activities and the possibilities for renewable energy projects in and around Settle.
October 2020 Green Cafe on Zoom featured– a discussion about the potential for developing local energy projects.
Thank you to Settle Community and Business Hub for letting us use this account.
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Our first Annual General Meeting was held at 11.00am on Saturday 12 September and was followed by September 2020’s Green Café with guest speaker
We held our first Annual General Meeting from 11.00am. This included the adoption of the constitution and election of officers and of members to ACE’s Steering Group, as well as an update on our campaigning strategy and finance report.
Our September virtual Green Café, followed the AGM, with Kate Jennings – Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Sites and Species Policy Manager speaking about the RSPB’s work…
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Nature has been so important for all of us during this crisis. We need to make sure that it is protected and enhanced as part of our recovery.
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August 2020 Green Cafe featured…our new membership scheme and how to join ACE, our current activities – including our draft website; along with the opportunity to feedback to other participants about what you are up to and what needs highlighting – locally, nationally or internationally.