Action on climate emergency
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 ...
https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2024/
Find out how the mayoral candidates will be tackling the climate emergency at an online hustings on 22nd April at 7pm. Sign-up here to book your place, put forward a question and receive the Zoom link nearer the time: https://actionnetwork.org/.../york-and-north-yorkshire.../ For information about the election and candidate responses to a range of climate and nature ...
Stop Food Waste Day is the largest single day of action in the fight against food waste. Started in 2017 by Compass Group USA, Stop Food Waste Day is now recognised globally in every corner of the world as we unite to educate and ignite change. Did you know, one third* of food produced for human ...
