Hello and welcome to this weeks newsletter.
We have some great events coming up including our own CrowdLeaf’s Litter Picking Walk today (Tuesday the 10th) at Southampton Common so please come and join us for that!
Also, please come along to the Sustainability mic night where organised speakers (including our own Ryan Carter) and other like minded people from various organisations will tell us what they are doing for the environment.
We are pleased to say we had a very warm reception to our proposed green enterprise award when we met with Simon Letts fo Southampton City Council!
The War On Plastic
Plastic Pollution Killed Sperm Whale Found Dead On Spanish Beach
Plastic Bag Litter Falls In UK Seas
Micro-plastics Found In Fertilisers Being Applied To Gardens And Farmland
Climate Change and Pollution
BBC Radio 4 Broke Impartiality Rules In Nigel Lawson Climate Change Interview
Shipping Industry Faces Calls To Clean Up Emissions
Underground Travel ‘Increases’ Pollution Exposure, Study Suggests
Shell Threatened With Legal Action Over Climate Change Contributions
Wildlife, Conservation and Environment
Plans For Welsh Nuclear Power Plant Delayed By Concerns Over Seabirds
Cement Industry Urged To Reduce ‘Invisible’ Global Emissions
Rare Owl Given The Gift Of Flight After Double Wing Transplant
Climate Change Threatens Rare British Orchid That Tricks Bees Into Mating
Warming Climate Could See Butterfly Loved By Churchill Return To UK
Sustainability and Recycling
In Praise Of ‘Ugly’ Vegetables
This Nonprofit Is Using Plastic Bottles To Light Up Homes
Plastic Free Living: You Can Now Buy Eco-Friendly Coffee Pods
Images below are from Sustainability Matters
Events
CrowdLeaf’s Litter Picking Walk 10th April
Portsmouth Green Drinks 11th April
Greenpeace April Social and Meeting 17th April
Sustainability Mic Night 20th April
Southampton Sustainable Fashion Fest 2018 21st April
Repair Cafe Portsmouth 21st April
Salisbury Vegan Fayre 29th April
Swanage Pier Dive And Litter Pick 12th May
Sholing Valley’s Spring Fayre 2018 19th May
Handy Websites
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
Please come and check out our store to support our cause and green community!
Pollution Tracking Tools
London Air Pollution Live Data
See you next time or better yet – tomorrow!