Hello and welcome to this weeks edition of the CrowdLeaf newsletter.
What a beautifully hot week it’s been, we hope you have all been safe but enjoyed your time in the sun! There has been plenty of talk of team work this week with the world cup taking over the screens, pubs and odd street. It seems timely to remember how much we can achieve together when we want to. As your here reading this we would assume you want to achieve a greener planet and community. So we call on you to share this newsletter or the stories fro it with at least one person this week. Education, debate and pressure are the key drivers of ideas, innovation and passions so please share.
Keep your eye on this space as we are planning to do another litter pick within the next few weeks and are looking for volunteers to join us as we look to one up our last litter pick which was a great showing of people and a horribly large amount of litter.
Climate Change and pollution
Young Will Pick Up Climate Change Bill, Advisers Warn
Reality Check: Do Clean Air Zones Work?
Deluge As Electronic Waste Turning Thailand Into ‘Worlds Rubbish Dump’
Saddle worth Moor Fire Generating Pollution That Can Harm Health
Car And Housing Companies ‘Should Be Ashamed of Themselves’ As UK On Track To Miss Emissions Targets
Manchester Makes A Beeline For New Dutch-Style Cycling network
Wildlife and Conservation
Orangutan Study Offers Hope For Conservation Efforts
Palm Oil ‘Disastrous’ For Wildlife But Here To Stay, Experts Warn
Artificial Intelligence Used To Track World’s Wildlife
Recycling and Sustainability
A New App Will Show People In Leeds Their Closest Recycling Bin
Waste Crisis: Where’s Your Recycling Going Now?
Events
Research Cafe 35: Air Pollution And Our Health
Bitterne Litter Team – 1 Hour Litter Pick 24th June
Big Beach Clean Up 2018! 24th June
Air Quality Monitoring Workshop 28th June 2018
Portsmouth Green Drinks ‘On Tour’ Artist Special, Part 1 11th July
South sea Wildlife Watch 21st July
Handy Websites
Check Out Eco Collective who offer 100% vegan products and offer gluten free and organic produce.
Something we look to help businesses do in the future. If you are a business that is in the waste(not) business please get in touch –Mixed Plastic Banks In Southampton
Here is Southampton’s list on what to put into your blue lid recycling bin: What Can I Recycle?
Pledge Your Commitment To Improving Hampshires Recycling Habits
This brilliant website gives tips and ideas about food waste and how to reduce it.
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 a another child, instead of contributing to the destruction of the planet.’
Contact us!
Please join us on Facebook, like and share with fellow environmental and wildlife enthusiasts where we will keep you up to date with climate change, sustainable and wildlife and conservation news and anything else green.
We would also like to start adding a directory to our newsletter, making it more accessible for everyone to gain information, join other environmental groups or eco-friendly businesses that sell eco-friendly products. If you or someone you know are interested, please contact us. We can also help advertise and advise on any campaigns and fundraising events, with the option to advertise on our webpage, facebook and newsletters.
Equally if you have an article or blog which is relevant to the local or global cause of making the world cleaner and greener or feel there is an issue that could be part of a discussion, then feel free to send it over and we can publish it.
Contact us via our website:
Look us up on Facebook or drop us an email:
vicky@crowdleaf.org.uk
ryan@crowdleaf.org.uk
On behalf of CrowdLeaf,
Vicky & Ryan
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Pollution Tracking Tools
London Air Pollution Live Data
See you next time!