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St. Joseph’s Primary School, Wetherby leads the way with local Earth Day celebrations.
On Friday 22nd April, St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Wetherby celebrated Earth Day with a variety of activities held throughout the day. Founded in 1970, the annual celebration of Earth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement. Every year activities involve over 1 billion people around the world, as…
Read MoreHow Green are you?
Check out your ‘green’ credentials, with our fun quiz. Answer these 26 easy questions and see how high you score. There’s plenty of ways we can all make a small impact to slow climate change. You may not agree with them all, so do the ones you feel are right for you. Together we can…
Read MoreThis Earth Day, Friday 22nd April. Can you leave your car at home?
As individuals, we have the simple yet effective power to make our voices heard through our choices, our civic actions, and our personal interactions. What each of us does, and how we do it, has a huge ripple effect on our ecosystems, and on the pace of corporate and government action. Started in 1970, Earth Day is…
Read MoreCreate and enjoy a wildlife-friendly, and sustainable ‘grow your own’ garden
Here are our 8 tips for creating your own wildlife-friendly garden, one in which you could also ‘grow your own’ veg. BUTTERFLY GARDENS – Who’d like a garden haven for you and the butterflies to enjoy? Choose plants with simple flowers that make it easy for butterflies to reach the nectar. Try toprovide flowers right…
Read MoreLet It Grow; Reduce the Mow
Leaving your grass to grow or setting aside at least a patch of your lawn to allow flowers to bloom and provide a vital source of nectar for bees and other insects to complete their breeding cycles. See photos below of some gardens in our Green Group.
Read MoreThe Crown & The Pudding Lab, Boston Spa awarded first 5stars for Sustainable Local Business Award.
Co-founder Penny Stables says she ‘is delighted to be able to recognise these local businesses as striving to protect their local environment and help mitigate the impact on climate change. It’s great to see that these businesses now offer free water refills, don’t use polystyrene and many other oil based single use plastics and are actively engaged…
Read MoreThrowing out food is one of the biggest contributors to climate change?
Like and share on Facebook When we waste food, it’s not just the food we’re wasting, it’s the resources taken to produce it too – like water and the land that could have been cleared to grow it. With a massive 25-30% of global greenhouse gases coming from the food system, we need to do…
Read MoreClose the Loop on Waste & Become Plastic Free
As we hear more and more about climate change, we are asking local businesses in Wetherby, Boston Spa & Villages to make a voluntary pledge to sign up to our Sustainable Local Business Award Programme, as part of our collective journey to attain Plastic Free Community status: 1star for joining the Refill scheme or food…
Read MoreEco Friendly Christmas Ideas
Top Tips for a greener more sustainable Christmas: The typical Christmas wrapping paper is shiny and not recyclable, so consider using a paper that is recyclable or reuse tissue paper, newspaper, old wallpaper, fabric etc all tied up with string or ribbon (not sellotape which is not recyclable). Make your own wreath using sticks or…
Read MoreWhy the UK’s 1% of global emissions is a big deal
Like and share on Facebook It’s often claimed the UK, at 1% of global emissions, is too small to have an impact, often followed by ‘what about China?’. But there’s so much wrong with that calculation… There’s a phenomenon I like to think of as Schrödinger’s Global Britain. It’s where we’re simultaneously a global power…
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