Welcome to this weeks Crowdleaf Newsletter. Our aim at Crowdleaf is to try and make a positive impact on people, to give the facts about the current state of the climate, environment, wildlife and conservation and about sustainability. We also aim to be able to find different ways to become greener.
Climate Change
Norweigan Central Bank has told it’s government to ‘dump it’s shares’ in oil and gas companies.
After all of the extreme weather America has experienced recently, more Americans are worried about the effects of climate change. With only 54% of American’s understanding that climate change is caused by human beings, it just goes to show how important it is to making the message clear about how and why the climate is changing.
Environment, Wildlife and Conservation
With an estimated 12,000 tonnes of plastic being dumped into the sea each year, a tax on single use plastics could be a good start to tackling the ocean pollution.
This is a similar article to above but tells more about the impact on the sealife. Whales dying from our plastic pollution – David Attenborough’s hard hitting message from the Blue Planet 2 episode on Sunday 19th November.
Whale mother can’t let go of dead calf likely poisoned by plastic …
Sir David Attenborough’s New Series to Show ‘Heartbreaking …
With the pollution in our oceans becoming so serious and the amount of harm it’s causing to our sealife etc, we all really need to start taking responsibility and doing every little thing we can to reduce this. In the case of take away coffee cups – there are reusable ones! – just take them home and wash up ready for the next takeaway drink. Again, straws – invest in reusable ones, you can also get handy little tiny brushes to help clean them properly. Every little really does help and if everyone would follow suit things could start to really change.
Greenpeace has given 9 good easy tips on how to reduce plastic use in the link below.
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/9-ways-reduce-plastic-use/
The Keystone Pipeline leakes 210,000 gallons of oil right before the Nebraska Public Service Commission is due to make a final decision on whether to allow an extension called the Keystone XL which will link Canada’s Alberta Oil to big refineries in the U.S. This is what locals to the pipeline have been fearing to happen and have been resisting the extension due to the impact such a leak can have to loacal water supply, to the environment and wildlife.
Keystone Pipeline leaks 210,000 gallons of oil | The Independent
4 days ago … The Keystone Pipeline has been temporarily shut down after it leaked more than 200000 gallons of oil in South Dakota. Crews shut down the …
A new study has showed that there has been a sharp drop in male fertility and poor sperm quality. The high levels of air-pollution could be the cause of this.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/22/air-pollution-linked-to-poor-sperm-quality
Sustainability
One of the UK’s nurseries ban the use of glitter to help the environment. The common arts and craft accessory is a micro plastic that has been found in foods and is poisonous for humans, can cause fertility problems and affect the immune system.
Nurseries ban glitter in pre-Christmas drive for cleaner seas …
5 days ago … A child at Tops Day in Christchurch, Bournemouth, uses lentils and rice to make pictures after the use of glitter was banned. Photograph: …
In the film industry there are ways to try and cut waste and pollution.
Recycleable coffee cups! Fantastic news and more good news the scientists behind this also have sandwich wrappers that can be recycled too. We hope to see these being used soon which could help reduce our waste in to the environment.
Meet The Scientists Who Have Made Coffee Cups Recyclable …
Only one per cent of the 2.5 billion paper coffee cups used in the UK each year … Meet The Scientists Who Have Made Coffee Cups Recyclable. Charley Ross by Charley Ross 29/09/2017 03:15pm. Writer at Sourced by HuffPost UK. … NextCupCycle are a company who’ve worked out a clever way of recycling the cups and …
This is an article about ‘Rasa’ – a car that runs on hydrogen and emits water. It’s compact, lightweight and environmentally friendly could this be the car for a cleaner future?
Below is a Youtube video of Rasa which is very interesting to watch. It does actually look like a very fun car to drive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utmkddBFUg0
An inspirational artist – Artur Bordalo – who collects his own materials from rubbish to create large scale animals who are the victims from our waste. Bodalo uses the waste for his projects to bring about social awareness for the ecological and sustainable environment.
http://www.greenmatters.com/renewables/2017/11/20/kcfLU/trash-artist-murals
1005 best Art images on Pinterest | James d’arcy, Built ins and …
Buses in London to use coffee grounds as fuel! This looks great and as they don’t need to be modified to use this fuel – even better.
http://www.greenmatters.com/news/2017/11/22/1TEtt8/london-buses-coffee-grounds
A disappointing blow to green power projects as government decline subsidies before 2015.
Events
Film Screening – Before the Flood
Thursday 23rd November 18:30 – 21:00
The Stripe, King Alfred Campus, University of Winchester
http://www.winacc.org.uk/events/2017-11-23/film-screening-flood-0
See Bin, Sea Change Tickets, Fri, 1 Dec 2017 at 17:00 | Eventbrite
Eventbrite – University of Portsmouth presents See Bin, Sea Change – Friday, 1 December 2017 at Eldon Building, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Find event and ticket …
This Eventbrite event that’s been promoted by our friends over at Green Hampshire. Some of you possibly remember a piece both related to Green Hampshire and Sea Bins was written by our friend Adam Manning of Green Hampshire and Friends of Western Shore.
National Tree week with the Centre of Alternative Technology in Machynlleth, Wales.
Saturday 2nd December 13:00 – 15:30
Join in for family friendly activities including tree decorating, Sapling planting, tree trail and tree story telling.
https://www.facebook.com/events/777916475742152/
National tree week 25th November – 3rd November
Take part or find an event near you via the website to celebrate National Tree Week.
http://www.treecouncil.org.uk/Take-Part/National-Tree-Week
Handy Websites:
Instead of throwing out or bagging up (to gather dust) all those clothes children quickly grow out of this is a brilliant website to buy or sell unwanted children clothes. It is run by a busy mum who also knows what it’s like with ever growing children and the endless amount of clothes children accumulate.
“Last year a quarter of the clothing we got rid of was simply thrown away. That’s a staggering 300,000 tonnes that went into landfill. So many of those items could have been re-used and enjoyed by another child, instead of contributing to the destruction of the planet.”
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