Our next meeting is on 6th April 2021. It’s online so please contact us if you would like to join and we’ll send you the link.
If you’re aged 11-18 and want to save the world you could join the next generation of activists at the Youth, Ocean and Climate Summit, on June 8th 2021 for World Oceans Day. This one-day virtual Summit will give you a platform to combine your passions, experiences and ideas on the most pressing issues of our time.
The Bishop’s Stortford Neighbourhood Plan has bold targets requiring most new developments to be carbon-neutral and promoting community green energy schemes. The consultation is open until 22nd March. Your support for the plan would be very helpful.
Have your say on the Neighbourhood Plan consultation
Hertfordshire County Council have a new sustainability strategy. It has some good elements in it, but does it go far enough, quickly enough? There is a survey for your feedback.
Reduce waste and save resources. See our local recycling guide
Latest news
Bottom trawling: “equivalent of ploughing an old-growth forest into the ground, over and over and over again until there is nothing left” time.com/5947430/bottom-trawling-carbon-emissions-study/
How Industrial Fishing Creates More CO2 Emissions Than Air Travel
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A new study is the first to calculate the immense carbon toll of dragging weighted nets along the ocean floorThe "Inactivists" have moved from denial to new tactics of deflection and division. www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/27/climatologist-michael-e-mann-doomism-climate-crisis-i...
Climatologist Michael E Mann: 'Good people fall victim to doomism. I do too sometimes'
www.theguardian.com
The author and eminent climate scientist on the deniers’ new tactics and why positive change feels closer than it has done in 20 yearsSurely incidents should be named and shamed? Does anyone know how to get the local data on them?
Revealed: no penalties issued under 'useless' English farm pollution laws
www.theguardian.com
Exclusive: Environment Agency has failed to prosecute or fine any of 243 documented violations since 2018www.facebook.com/groups/saveourstort/permalink/2603568346435004/
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Storm Bella helps Great Britain set new record for wind power generation
www.theguardian.com
On Boxing Day more than half of country’s daily electricity came from wind turbines