Shropshire Climate Action: About us About Shropshire Climate Action Shropshire Climate Action is a registered charity which operates as a network across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin. SCA aims to tackle the ecological and climate emergencies across Shropshire, achieving a net-zero carbon footprint for the county by 2030 and restoration of nature, through building community capacity and empowering local action. Our Vision By 2030, Shropshire is no longer a county that contributes to the climate change crisis. Nature has been restored, our communities and enterprises are now sustainable. Our mission statement Our purpose is to support Shropshire to achieve net zero carbon and restore nature by 2030. We will be a catalyst that brings local people and organisations together to address the climate and ecological emergencies in a just and sustainable way. Governance SCA is constituted as a not-for-profit limited company and registered as a charity. You can read its articles of association here and charitable governing document on the Charity Commission website here . Achievements Since 2021, Zero Carbon Shropshire (Shropshire Climate Action Partnership) (as it was known) and South Shropshire Climate Action have helped to set up or deliver the following projects: The Shropshire Good Food Partnership Cool Shropshire and Telford for small business advice A map of sites suitable for renewable energy (Solar and Wind) and for carbon sequestration across the county A collaborative network of local climate action groups The Shropshire Love Nature Festival This website packed with resources and advice on how to take action across the county Regular newsletters about the climate action, events and news in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Leaflets of Walks through Ludlow and Bridgnorth's green spaces Retrofit toolkits for energy efficient homes and a repair cafe toolkit An Action Learning Project (2025) funded by Shropshire Council exploring how to decarbonise Shropshire communities Four climate conferences for Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin. Meet the SCA Trustees Trustee Mark Fermor (BSc MSc DUC MBA CGeol FGS FRSA) I am a hydrogeologist and risk analyst who founded and led environmental consultancy ESI (1996-2018). Since then I have led the development of GeoSmart, an environmental data and analytics enterprise based in Shrewsbury, am currently Chair and working towards more joined up flood modelling and risk assessment in the UK. In 2020 I was a founder of Shropshire Climate Action and Director of the Zero Carbon Shropshire Plan (2020). I founded a community active travel charity, Shropshire Cycle Hub, am Chair of the board of trustees and regular eCargo bike delivery rider. Trustee Jess Walton (BSc MSc) I am currently working as a project manager at Marches Energy Agency. I have a BA degree in politics and international relations as well as a Masters degree in political ecology. I am a long-time climate activist and former chairperson of Generation Zero Carbon Shropshire. Trustee Barbara Rainford I am a joint partner in Strawberry Fields, a marketing and social media consultancy. I am an elected director of the Midcounties Co-operative (which set up Co-op Energy) and Co-op Press. I helped set up Babbinswood Farm Community Benefit Society , which is campaigning to save an organic farm in North Shropshire. I was a volunteer with the Shropshire Wildlife Trust. I believe regenerative agriculture and green energy are the future for plants, people and the planet. Chair of Trustees Chris Deaves (BSc, Chartered Engineer) My career was spent working in IT in start-ups, large corporations and public sector bodies doing detailed technical design, project management, strategic corporate IT policy and consultancy. I have been a beekeeper for over 30 years and manage the teaching at the Ludlow Association. I was a Trustee of the British Beekeeping Association and chair of their education committee. I am currently Chair of Shropshire Climate Action and Chair of the Marches Energy Agency . I am a Trustee of Hands Together Ludlow and have developed their approach to digital inclusion and recycling IT equipment. Meet the Project Team David Matthews SCA Programme manager, Chair of Stretton Climate Care Mike Bourke SCA Energy and Buildings lead, Trustee for Stretton Climate Care Sascha Robinson SCA Transport lead, project worker for Living Streets Di Lyle SCA Waste lead, Founder and coordinator for the Ludlow Repair Café Colin Preston SCA Land and Biodiversity lead, Chair of the Marches Nature Partnership, Previously Chief Executive of Shropshire Wildlife Trust Chloe King SCA Conference lead, Project manager for Marches Energy Agency John Hughes SCA Communications and Fundraising lead, previously worked for Shropshire Wildlife Trust and Shropshire Council Tina Teearu SCA social media team Anna Ponder SCA social media team, Intern at Marches Energy Agency and ELP2 participant Sue Burnell Climate Fresk facilitator for community Kev Oubridge Climate Fresk facilitator for Business Consultants Joy Greenall (Measures) Joy was brought up in Ludlow. She taught in London before completing a Nature Conservation MSc. She worked for NCC (now Natural England) and the Cambridgeshire Wildlife Trust, spent 10 years providing on-farm advice and management plans in Berks and Oxon for the farming and wildlife charity FWAG, and then joined Duchy Home Farm at Highgrove as Sustainable Agriculture officer. Farming has always been her first love and 25 years ago she had the opportunity to come home and run an organic farm with husband Mark. Livestock farming leaves little free time, but other activities include choral singing, flower arranging and community project work, including chairing Land, Life & Livelihoods. Mark Measures BSc. Hons, Agric., FRAgS., IOTA Accredited An international consultant in policy, research and training in farm business and environmental management, soil, crop and animal husbandry. Formerly head of the Organic Advisory Service and the Institute of Organic Training and Advice and visiting lecturer at Scotland’s Rural College. He is director of an education and conservation trust in Argentina, jo int editor of the “Organic Farm Management Handbook” (12th edition), a 2018 Winston Churchill Fellow (studying soil management in the US and Europe), and a partner in a 150-acre farm in the Shropshire Hills. Professor John Whitelegg Senior Fellow for transport and climate change at the Foundation for Integrated Transport and an international consultant on transport projects. John has authored te chnical standards, reports and 11 books concerning sustainable transport , including “Mobility: A New Urban Design and Transport Planning Philosophy for a Sustainable Future ”. He is an adviser to the World Health Organisation on road safety and active travel. Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin's Climate and Nature Network St Martin's Parish Council Climate Action Working Group Sustainable Highley Thank you We are grateful to the following for their contribution to our website: Mike Bourke (Stretton Climate Care); Clive Dyson (Sustainable Bridgnorth), Sally Lancaster (previously of Generation Zero Carbon Shropshire) for writing text; Caroline Talbot (Mossy Life) for working with us and permitting us to embed her events pages and maps; Chris Deaves for technical support and Sarah Jameson for its design and technical support.

Shropshire Climate Action: Reuse and share Reuse & share The environmental impact of our consumer society is huge. A ccording to WRAP 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from clothing and footwear. UK consumers buy more clothes per person than any other E uropean country, and wear new garments just 7 times on average.* By 2030 global c lothing consumption is predicted to rise by 63%. The p oster designed by Ge neration Zero Carbon Shropshire shows some of the environmental impacts of fashion ranging from excessive artificial fertiliser, pesticide and water use. Discarded clothing is also significant. In the UK we discard 1 million tonnes of clothing every year: 300,000 tonnes of clothing is thrown in the bin of which 20% goes to landfill and 80% is incinerated Much of our used clothing is dumped in countries which lack the facilities to manage our waste such as Ghana Synthetic textiles e.g. nylon, polyester and acrylics, are made from plastics derived from fossil fuels. They are used in 60% of our garments and can take up to 200 years to decompose. (*Reference Daily Mail study) Actions you can take Don't throw things away. Consider i nstea d: Arrange a Swap and Share event - to share resources in your communi ty, exchanging unwanted items for something new! Check out this Toolkit Stop buying from fast fashion brands which produce clothes at high speeds and low costs to maximise profits. Instead educate yourself on sustainable brands and share this knowledge with others. Sign up to Ethical Consumer magazine . Buy from charity shops or second hand stores Repair or fix items and, where you can, repurpose See some of the great ideas for reusing clothes from Generation Zero Carbon Shropshire Set up a Library of Things in your community This video shows how Library of Things operate across London as part of a circular economy. Library of Things (LOTs) LOTs are local membership schemes which lend out things for your home, projects and activities (e.g. DIY, gardening, cooking, cleaning, camping equipment etc.). The schemes allow people to hire items on short-term loan for a small fee. Did you know that the average drill is used for only 7 minutes in its lifetime? These schemes help to cut down on clutter, waste and carbon emissions and save you money. Check out the Library of Things in our region – the Share Shack is run by the Active Wellbeing Society in Birmingham. Local examples in our area Oswestry Climate Action Hub Oswestry Climate Action Hub (OsCAH) , is based in the heart of the town centre at 36 Bailey Street with a mission to: "Make, Share, Grow, Repair". The Hub provides an inclusive space for local residents to meet and engage in events and initiatives from mends and upcycling, to skill shares, swaps. and growing your own plants. The aim is for the people of Oswestry and nearby areas to help each other live more sustainably and build resilience against climate change. Swaps, shares and giveaways Climate Action Hub Telford holds regular pop up swap, share and giveaway events and works together with Telford Repair Café and Terracycle Telford at local community centres. in Telford. See their website for ideas of what you could do in your community. Baby Stop is a project of The Severn Community Charitable trust who hold monthly baby product shares The With Love From project in Oswestry has created a Shropshire Shared Wardrobe of outfits for conscientious shoppers which you can also borrow from Oswestry library! Donations of party clothing, footwear and accessories are also welcome. Little Stars is a Shropshire based charity who provide pre-loved items to families in need for children of all ages. They also have pre-loved school uniform donation points in the following Tesco stores - Shrewsbury, Ellesmere, Whitchurch, and Ludlow Crafts and tools Scrappies sells end-of-line and recycled resources for craft, art and household. It is also an outlet for T ools for Self Reliance providing pre-owned and refurbished tools to help with DIY projects. Address: Scrappies, 1 Sherratt Court, Beaumont Road, Church Stretton, Shropshire, SY6 6BN. Tel: 01694 328 508. Email: info@scrappies.org Tools for Self Reliance also re-furbishes tools (including haberdashery and sewing machines) that are no longer needed and then sends them to local organisations in Africa to support rural artisans and craftworkers. Email: marchestools@gmail.com Furniture and equipment The Shed (for the people of Highley) receives donations from the community including toys and clothes (except large furniture) and provides help to local people in need. Warp It is an online tool supported by Shropshire council which assists with re-using equipment and furniture. The portal allows you to claim and exchange items you wish with other organisations. Schools may register and login for free. Click here for more information. Email: info@getwarpit.com

Shropshire Climate Action: Home page   Read More Welcome! Shropshire Climate Action (SCA) is an action driven coalition of local people, organisations and businesses, all dedicated to helping Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin take climate action. SCA brings together the South Shropshire Climate Action, Zero Carbon Shropshire and Shropshire Green Exchange networks because a co-ordinated and collaborative response is needed to tackle the climate and Nature crises at a local level. This website is full of information about the actions we can take as individuals, communities, schools, town and parish councils and businesses to support Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin to reach net zero by 2030. See how you can get involved in the invaluable work that local organisations in our network are already doing to protect Nature, reduce our carbon emissions and improve our health and wellbeing across the topics of energy and housing, land and biodiversity (including food), transport and repair reuse-recycle initiatives. Together we can take action to lessen the impacts of the climate and Nature emergency. Read more about us here Read our Climate Action Reports What is the Climate Emergency? Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin's carbon emissions How to take action Explore our website to find practical advice and information on taking climate and nature action across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin and how you can get involved with local organisations. ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. How to get involved Help make Shropshire Climate Action an effective channel for accelerating climate action – we can do it with you, we can’t do it without you Please email us at: contact@shropshireclimateaction.org Or get in touch about any of the following activities using the form below. Contact us Sign up to our monthly newsletter here Volunteer with us or join our working groups & meetings Share your local news, actions & events with us Make a donation here Get in touch with us! First Name Last Name Email Message Send Please see our Privacy Policy. Thank you for your message we will respond as soon as possible!

Shropshire Climate Action: Our climate reports South Shropshire's "Next Steps" Report (2021) South Shropshire Climate Action wrote the ‘Next Steps’ Climate Action Plan which was launched in May 2021. The plan set out practical and achievable steps to enable the Ludlow constituency (as it was known then) to achieve a carbon net zero target by 2030, whilst also contributing to human and environmental health and well-being. The report covered the themes of Land & Biodiversity, Transport, Energy & Buildings, and Communities & Education. In June 2021 (in the frenetic days leading up to COP26) Philip Dunne, M.P. for the Ludlow Constituency, presented the 'Next Steps' Report in the House of Commons and placed the report written by his constituents directly into the hands of the chair of COP26, Alok Sharma M.P. To download the South Shropshire Climate Action report (2021) click on the links below. Download the Next Steps Report (Summary) Download the Next Steps Report (Full - 72mb) Read South Shropshire Climate Action's End of Project Report (2025) Over 3 years, South Shropshire Climate Action (SSCA) has engaged with community groups, businesses, schools and local networks to begin implementing the strategy outlined in the “Next Steps” Climate Action Plan. Funding from an anonymous donor paid for two Project Co-ordinators, Nick Read and Fiona Morgan (working as a job share). The End of Project report (2025) outlines the Project Co-ordinators' activities, in conjunction with the many volunteers, organisations and networks that comprise South Shropshire Climate Action. Whilst some thematic areas have seen significant progress and a fifth theme of Repair-Reuse-Recycle has been added, others have been difficult to implement. A grant from Shropshire Council’s Climate Change Task Force enabled a research project involving four case studies to be conducted, using Action Learning Research methodology, to ascertain why some approaches to decarbonising Shropshire communities were successful, and others not (see the link to the full Action Learning Research Project report below). SSCA also helped with Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin’s first county-wide climate conference, drawing delegates from all over Shropshire, on the theme of how to accelerate change towards achieving net zero carbon. Of particular interest was the inclusion of young people in the conference planning and delivery through the Environment Leadership Programme (ELP). The End of Project report concludes with reflections on the last three years, to inform future developments, as the work continues under the auspices of Shropshire Climate Action. Download the Next Steps End of Project Report 2025 Download the Action Learning Project Report 2025 The Zero Carbon Shropshire Plan (2021) The Zero Carbon Shropshire plan was produced by Shropshire Climate Action Partnership in 2021 and looked at how Shropshire as a whole could get to net zero by 2030. Download the Zero Carbon Shropshire Plan A note about Net Zero We appreciate that achieving net zero by 2030 is ambitious, requiring resources and commitments from national and international agencies far beyond our ability to influence. However, SCA in conjunction with Shropshire Council and the Church of England have all adopted 2030 as the date because more urgent action is required than is being achieved by the government’s commitment to achieve net zero by 2050.

Shropshire Climate Action: Trains & Planes Trains & planes The climate impact of flying Air travel can offer unparalleled speed and global connectivity, but comes with a hefty carbon cost. According to Flight Free UK aviation is responsible for 7% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions. Even a short flight can emit hundreds of kilograms of CO2 per passenger. You can assess a flight's carbon emissions using My Climate's online CO2 flight calculator which will help you to work out how to offset the emissions. The aviation industry is making the problem worse by promoting frequent flyer incentives, airport expansion and increasing private jets. National campaigns are encouraging individuals to explore eco-friendly alternatives to flying. Possible’s campaign calls for UK flights to be cut by a third to help reduce carbon emissions and reach our climate targets. Graph credit: Flightfree.co.uk Take to the rails instead... Trains offer a great alternative to flying and driving. They are more energy-efficient: producing far fewer carbon emissions with each mile travelled. International travel by train Travelling abroad by train has never been easier! Th e Man in Seat 61 offers lots of information about using trains abroad. It provides travellers with: up-to-date information on train routes journey planners practical tips for a smooth journey. Train travel in the UK The UK rail industry is actively working towards more sustainable practices. Transport for Wales is investing in energy-efficient technologies and infrastructure upgrades to red uce carbon emissions. Using train apps to measure carbon savings Apps such as th e Trainline app and Train Pal app offer user-friendly platforms which makes it easier to plan journeys across the UK by train and bus to reduce your carbon footprint. When booking tickets, users receive information on the carbon impact and carbon savings of their journeys (see image on the right). Supporting greener business travel Trainline Business sells tickets from 270 carriers across 45 countries, covering 80% of all routes in Europe and provides businesses with cost efficiencies and controls over their travel spend. Read more here Actions you can take... Use a carbon footprint calculator to find out how much the types of transport you use contribute towards your carbon footprint. Sign up to Flight Free UK’s flight free challenge and check out their website for tips on alternative ways to travel abroad. Ask your employer to sign up to Climate Perks, a new employee benefit scheme where employers help staff to choose slower, cleaner, travel by giving them paid ‘journey days’ on top of their annual leave entitlement. Support Possible’s frequent flyer levy campaign : the more someone flies in any given year, the more tax they pay on their flights. Keep up to date with local initiatives that prioritise sustainability. See Shropshire Council’s website .

Shropshire Climate Action: Community actions What can you do as a community? Climate Fresk at Ludlow Quaker Meeting House Book a Climate Fresk workshop: learn about the climate crisis and what you can do to help Climate Fresk is a 3 hour facilitated workshop where you can get to grips with climate change in small groups in a safe, non-judgemental space, learn how to take action and enjoy some thought-provoking discussions. The workshops explore key drivers, mechanisms, and impacts of climate change, and map out where we are today and where we could be headed if we join forces. Previous participants have said: ‘I knew a fair bit about climate change but I learned so much new stuff. It was incredibly powerful sharing ideas in the group and understanding how everything is connected. We discussed next steps we could take and I left feeling focused and upbeat’. If you are a community group or group of friends living in Shropshire or Telford & Wrekin and want to book a half day Climate Fresk workshops which includes all the materials, find out more via the BizEd Projects website or email climate@bizedprojects.com Sign up to a Biodiversity Collage workshop "The global rate of species extinction is already at least tens to hundreds of times higher than the average rate over the past 10 million years and is accelerating. " IPBES, 2019 Join a biodiversity collage workshop to explore the pressing issue of biodiversity loss. Despite its critical importance, biodiversity receives far less attention than climate change, yet both are intertwined and pose significant threats to humanity. Based on the IPBES report, our interactive workshop offers a fun, collaborative, and visual exploration of biodiversity challenges. Here's what we'll cover: Starters: Work in groups to recreate ecosystems and uncover the impacts of human disturbance. Organise the collage: Connect the dots between 39 cards to understand biodiversity's significance, how it supports human life and how it is being degraded. Transform your collage into art: Decorate and title your creation Debrief and action planning: Reflect on insights gained and collectively develop action plans to halt biodiversity loss. Find out more via the BizEd Projects website or email climate@bizedprojects.com Set up a Carbon Watchers group The Carbon Watchers Project (CW) is loosely based on the philosophy of Weight Watchers: encouragement, no blame or shame, sharing ideas to reduce our personal carbon footprint. It encourages members of both formal and informal groups (friends, neighbours, clubs) to work towards reducing their carbon footprints, using any of the tools suggested on this website. Click here for a toolkit on how to set up a Carbon Watchers group. The Great Collaboration is an online Toolkit which contains 60 different carbon reducing actions you can take rated by cost and carbon impact. This includes a section on how you can join with other people to use your voice to call for change. https://greatcollaboration.uk/the-toolkit/ Start a climate conversation We are Possible recommends talking about the climate crisis to our friends, family, colleagues and neighbours, which can help empower others to understand the crisis we face and take action. Inspiring local actions are already happening, and we can strengthen these and generate further impetus by sharing our experience and knowledge. To get you started here are some questions to start the conversation …. What’s the best thing your group/organisation/ school has done in the last year to help cut greenhouse gas emissions or loss of natural habitat? What’s the most important thing you want to do next? What will help you do that? … and here are some ideas to consider for your community or group. Contact us to find out more. Read the Action Learning Report on decarbonising Shropshire communities South Shropshire Climate Action received a grant from Shropshire Council in December 2023 to explore how communities in Shropshire can achieve Net Zero by 2030. Four community groups participated in the project including: a school - St George's CE Academy, Clun a small rural parish council - Llanfair Waterdine a local faith group - Ludlow Quaker Meeting House a project run by a local charity - Community Climate Connectors Project (Marches Energy Agency). The final report reveals which which strategies are most effective in encouraging participation in activities designed to reduce carbon emissions at a community level and what barriers and challenges lay in the way of the groups making progress. Read the report

Shropshire Climate Action: Schools & Youth Groups Resources for schools & youth groups Schools, youth clubs, Scouts and Guides groups play a vital role in educating young people about the climate crisis, sustainability and active travel and showing how they can be part of the solution. Generation Zero Carbon Shropshire - a group of young adults aged 16-30 living in Shropshire during the covid pandemic who were affiliated to Zero Carbon Shropshire - and Deborah Murphy, a former deputy head teacher, created many of the resources on this page. They wanted to ensure Shropshire’s younger citizens have a voice in the ongoing debate about carbon emissions. Resources have also been provided by the Teach The Future campaign which aims to reform the UK education system around the issues of climate justice, the natural world, and sustainability. Let's Go Zero - a national campaign uniting teachers, pupils, parents and their schools to become zero carbon by 2030 - also provides support to schools. You can book one of their Climate Action Advisors to give free and tailored advice to help green school buildings, transport, menus and more. Watch this video Young people from Generation Zero Carbon Shropshire created this video for Key Stage 3 students. Listen to what they have to say about the climate crisis and what young people in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin can do about it. Key Stage 3 sustainability resources These sustainability resources for schools were designed by Generation Zero Carbon Shropshire and former deputy head teacher Deborah Murphy to be used for stand-alone sessions with KS3 students. This material is intended to launch discussion about the climate crisis, sustainability and the goal of zero carbon emissions in Shropshire by 2030. This lesson will suit a range of settings including: PHSCE, Citizenship English - extend into persuasive letter writing Flexible Learning Days Catch up Literacy sessions Youth Club, Scouts, Guides, youth group sessions . Click the orange links to download the resources which include: the video above - suitable for assemblies, tutorial time, break times etc. lesson plan for a stand-alone lesson that can be adapted to meet specific needs. Activities can be stretched to allow deeper exploration if required powerpoint presentation to accompany the lesson plan key words sheet sustainability pledge sheet What can I do now poster letter template for a school action plan to email to Shropshire Climate Action via: contact@shropshireclimateaction.org Active Travel to School For more information about the support available to schools to encourage their pupils to walk and cycle to school see our page on Active Travel (scroll to the bottom of the page) How to decarbonise a school in Clun Read the Action Learning Project case study of St George's CE Academy, Clun and their journey to decarbonise their school. including which strategies are most effective in encouraging participation in activities designed to reduce carbon emissions at a community level and what barriers and challenges lay in the way of the group making progress. The action learning project report (2025) was produced by South Shropshire Climate Action with support from a grant from Shropshire Council to explore how communities in Shropshire can achieve Net Zero by 2030.

< Back Shropshire residents out in force in London for “The Big One For Biodiversity” March on 22nd April Fiona Morgan 22 Apr 2023 Members of SSCA joined in the March calling on the Government to protect Nature and take action on climate. On Saturday 22 April (Earth Day) people from across Shropshire and the UK attended the “The Big One For Biodiversity” March in Westminster calling on the Government to take meaningful climate action and halt the biodiversity crisis affecting the UK’s wildlife. The event was organised by Extinction Rebellion in partnership with over 200 environmental and social justice groups including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Fair Trade Foundation, Stop Ecocide, Keep Britain Tidy and faith groups. It was estimated that 65,000 people attended the March including children and their families to show their concern about the current crises, many of whom made some amazing creative art works to demonstrate their love and appreciation of nature. Previous Next

< Back So what do you do with your hoover fluff? Angela Vnoucek 12 Jul 2024 One Shrewsbury resident's journey to become a Zero Waster This is not a question which comes up in everyday conversation. It is however relevant if, like me, you do not like putting your general waste bin out. It was too much hassle for me with a busy job and one less thing that I needed to think about. No more " What day is bin day? " and all the aggravation which came with. It was 2011 and I decided to review everything I put in my bin and find another home for it, or, better still, not generate it in the first place. I soon reached the stage where a whole year had gone by and I could still see the bottom of my general waste bin. It was only in 2020 that I realised I was doing something which is rapidly becoming a growing trend – zero wasting. I became used to recycling, reducing, repairing, repurposing, rotting (aka composting) and refusing. My general waste bin has now been repurposed and houses, ironically, my garden equipment. And what became of the hoover fluff? That went into the green waste bin. So now that I have posed the question please ask yourself ‘What do you do with your hoover fluff?’ Your journey to be a zero waster has begun. Read more about Angela's zero waste activities on the BBC News website . Listen to her interview on BBC Radio Shropshire [Intro @ 26:40; then 30:13 - 36:30: 48:24 - 54:27: 1.42:09 - 1.48:49] Previous Next

< Back Mossy.Life - Shropshire’s online local green guide Caroline Talbot 1 Mar 2024 For all Shropshire's green events, groups, activities and more This beautiful county not only provides magical green rolling countryside, but is the home of a whole array of green-minded individuals, companies, organisations and groups, all trying to gain traction in working towards a net zero way of living. From start-up zero waste shops and community litter picking initiatives, to energy saving workshops and organic farms, Shropshire has so many green heroes working towards a more sustainable future. Although it is true that every little really does help, it is also true that by connecting like-minded people and working together, we can help amplify the effect. In 2019, Caroline Talbot, a Shropshire born environmental educator, wanted to make a difference, so started to build an online free to use directory whilst on maternity leave. The website Mossy.Life has gone from strength to strength and now lists over 630 organisations and groups, and between 50-500 environmental events in the online calendar at any given time. How you can use Mossy.Life : Mossy.Life provides a green directory that can be searched by location, category or name, as well as a searchable events calendar . Both offer completely free listings to encourage even the smallest of groups to get involved. It includes a calendar of national and international campaigns , local green news and a range of eco living articles . The website can also be explored by area, showcasing Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin on individual pages to help connect individuals with everything local to them. You can also embed the Mossy.Life Directory into your own group’s website as South Shropshire Climate Action and Zero Carbon Shropshire have done to help publicize all the activities taking place locally to help address the Nature and climate crisis. If you know of an individual, organization, group, product or event that isn’t yet listed, please get in touch to help spread the word by sending an email to Caroline at hello@mossy.life Previous Next

< Back SSCA’s response to the government’s decision to roll back on the UK climate commitments Jane Cullen 23 Sept 2023 Our letter to Philip Dunne MP On the 23rd September we wrote to Philip Dunne MP, to make the following points: 2023 is the hottest year ever recorded; We in the UK lack climate leadership at all levels, especially government; The Office for Budget Responsibility has recently highlighted the economic benefits of speedy action on net zero and the financial risks associated with any delay; If we continue to use fossil fuels for our cars and heating this will drive up costs; Children experience profound anxiety as they try to grow up amidst all these pressures; Lack of action on the climate emergency creates more hardship and disintegration of communities while damage to the environment and nature accumulates; Milestones on the way to 2030 are missed that makes a net zero transition so much more difficult, so much less likely. Surely Prime Minister Sunak can see the climate emergency cannot be used in the ordinary way to score political points? Please write to Philip Dunne yourself (the Rosebank oilfield and the closing of the Energy Efficiency Unit both happened last month too). His email address is: philip.dunne.mp@parliament.uk Philip Dunne’s own letter to Prime Minister Sunak on behalf of the Environmental Audit Committee can be read here . [Photo credit: The chart is by Ed Hawkins, University of Reading using Met data and depicts Shropshire's increasing annual temperature change since 1884]. Previous Next

< Back SSCA's first Swap event at the Next Generation Fair, Craven Arms Fiona Morgan 20 May 2023 Reusing and sharing reduces carbon emissions, saves waste and helps us to help each other On Saturday 20th May we attended the Next Generation Fair at the Community Centre in Craven Arms . Along with having information on our stand about SSCA and other organisations in our network we held our first Swap event to encourage people to reuse children’s toys, books and clothes. We had lots of satisfied customers and will be taking the remaining stock to Ludlow Green Festival on Sunday 9th July for our next Swap event. So if you have any items for all ages (adults and children) to donate or swap including toys, games, books, DVD’s CD’s, household items, clothes etc please bring them along. By reusing and sharing we can help each other through the cost of living crisis and help the planet by reducing carbon emissions and waste. We look forward to seeing you there. Previous Next