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Offsetting and Carbon Trading

Offsetting and Carbon Trading

I am very suspicious of offsetting. An old friend was persuaded by her heating oil supplier to give money to forestry in India. She has travelled to India many times and has a soft spot for the country and its peoples, so she was easily persuaded. In theory, the trees

Council Watch April 2023

Council Watch April 2023

CA-WN watching West Northants Council for us all The very first issue of CA-WN Exchange was published exactly one year ago, on 1 April 2022. We chose to write the first ‘Council Watch’ feature as a report card on the first year of the unitary authority’s existence. So how

Farming Today

Farming Today has been going for ever – I remember my granddad getting up to listen to it every morning in the 1970s. But it has definitely moved with the times and these days isn’t just about combine harvesters and the price of pigs. We all know that food systems

The Garden Jungle by Dave Goulson

The Garden Jungle by Dave Goulson

The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save The Planet: Professor Goulson is a mine of information about the natural world and a great communicator. There’s a lot of science in this book, but it’s clearly conveyed and easy to absorb. The science sits alongside a lot of practical

My Three Things for Climate Change

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My Three Things for Climate Change

by Emmie Williamson, Clinical Psychologist; Green Party parliamentary candidate for South Northants; Co-Coordinator of West Northants Green Party; Coordinator of Flore Climate Group. I’ve really enjoyed reading the other contributions in this space, and how the actions range from large and broad to tiny and specific. So I thought

My View: Rosie Humphreys

My View: Rosie Humphreys

CA-WN gives a Councillor the space to speak about climate action

CA-WN Monthly Meeting notes 16 March 2023

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CA-WN Monthly Meeting notes 16 March 2023

Present: Alexina Cassidy, Briony Askew, Dave Anderson, David Garlick, Dmitry Borisovich, Ella Mansfield, Eugenia Wilson, Harry Mellor, Jane Wood, John Thomason, Ken Ritchie, Leonie Beale, Orianne Neyroud, Peter Nalder, Rupert Frost, Rupert Knowles Apologies: Clare Robertson-Marriott, Clare Slater, Emmie Williamson, Jonathan Harris, Olivia Stevenson, Patsy Hollingum, Richard Hollingum This meeting

The latest from CA-WN Exchange - March 2023

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The latest from CA-WN Exchange - March 2023

Do you sometimes wonder why you bother? When all around you, others seem to be merrily going about their business making high carbon choices without a care in the world? After all, it’s their planet too – their extreme weather, their rising sea levels and their food shortages. It’s

Tea and Cake in Towcester

Tea and Cake in Towcester

Members and friends have been unable to meet face-to-face since Covid sent CA-WN meetings online - and we know just how much love some of us have for online meetings. So we were delighted to invite our friends and supporters to this first get together of the year on Saturday

Council Watch March 2023

Council Watch March 2023

CA-WN watching West Northants Council for us all So what has West Northamptonshire Council been up to so far in 2023? The full council met in February to agree WNC’s annual budget. With inflation at around 10% these are not easy times in which to set a budget. Councils

Warm The Cockles Of Your Heart With Borsch!

Warm The Cockles Of Your Heart With Borsch!

We have a friend who says this tastes like authentic Ukrainian borsch – and she should know, she’s from Chernivtsi. Our Oddbox delivery has of late brought us veg we haven’t necessarily factored in to our current menu list, and the result has been a lot of beetroot that

My View: Callum Boddington

My View: Callum Boddington

CA-WN gives a Councillor the space to speak about climate action

New England Financial Solutions - investing in the future

New England Financial Solutions - investing in the future

The average person in the UK has £17,365 savings, according to a report published in September 2022 by the Building Societies Association. Savings accounts are the most popular savings method amongst UK adults with over half using them, though when questioned, 23% of savers admitted to not checking the

The writer Rachel Carson who fought insecticide wars

The writer Rachel Carson who fought insecticide wars

The Forum - BBC World Service One of the more interesting finds of late whilst digging around BBC Sounds has been the strand The Forum on the World Service. The Forum explores a wide range of subjects including history, technology, art and philosophy, a sort of world-wide In Our Time.

Northampton Town Council's Climate Change Forum

Northampton Town Council's Climate Change Forum

By Councillor Andrew Stevens and Clare Robertson-Marriott. The Climate Change Forum was set up by Northampton Town Council in late 2021. Its purpose is to develop projects and campaigns which will raise local awareness of the significant threat to all life on earth that climate change and the related biodiversity

Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson If ever there was a seminal book in the history of environmental catastrophes then it has to be Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Even well over fifty years on, the book still delivers a strong message, perhaps even stronger today, that you cannot play around with chemicals

Don’t be so car-less

Don’t be so car-less

By Peter Doveston - Northants Streets Campaign CA-WN's Transport Correspondent provides an analysis of vehicle ownership and deprivation data to make the case that reducing car use isn't just about emissions and climate change Why should we bother doing anything? A question you may have encountered

No love for Northampton's air

No love for Northampton's air

In the week that gave us Valentine’s Day the Daily Mirror reported that Northampton is the worst town for its particulate matter (PM) air pollution. CA-WN decided to dig deeper. The Mirror story was picked up from indoor air quality experts at HouseFresh who used PM2.5 data collected

My Three Things for Climate Change

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My Three Things for Climate Change

By Ella Mansfield, who has volunteered and worked in the charity sector for 10 years. Ella is a new member to CA-WN but has been on a personal sustainability journey for 3 years. I started making sustainable changes about 3 years ago during the pandemic, like everyone else I all

**Updated** Promising meeting on local energy with Chris Heaton-Harris, MP

Updated Promising meeting on local energy with Chris Heaton-Harris, MP

**Update February 24, 2023 You may be aware of a new Government-published report – the ‘Net Zero Review’, conducted by former energy minster Chris Skidmore. The review is strongly supportive of the Local Electricity Bill, including in its recommendations: ⏩Turbocharging community energy Government should commit to the Local Electricity Bill and

CA-WN Monthly Meeting Notes 16 February 2023

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CA-WN Monthly Meeting Notes 16 February 2023

Present: Alan Mawer, Alexina Cassidy, Clare Slater, Clare Robertson Marriott, David Wragg, Dmitry Borisovich, Ella Mansfield, Emmie Williamson, Harry Mellor, Jane Wood, Jonathan Harris, Leonie Beale, Rupert Frost, Rupert Knowles Apologies: Briony Askew, Maria Lee, Olivia Stevenson, Yvonne Mitton This meeting was recorded and will be published through the CA-WN

Spotlight On Other Local Authorities - Wirral Council

Spotlight On Other Local Authorities - Wirral Council

🍃Wirral Council's ambitious tree, hedgerow and woodland strategy - an example of strong communication, cross-party and partner collaboration and local community education and involvement. Wirral Council is a single tier authority covering a population of approximately 320,000, a mostly urban area of 157 km2 listed by the

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The latest from CA-WN Exchange - February 2023

Well done on making it through January - what feels like a 100-day month! For many of us February is a month of hope, with the first signs of Spring emerging as buds, green shoots and sunset creeping later into the evening. But for those of you who are tuned

Mellow Yellow

Rupert Knowles – CA-WN Farming Correspondent Some of you may be old enough like me to remember dancing to Donovan’s 1966 hippy hit song by this name. But today, it is Farrington’s oils that invoke the magic of flower power. Farrington’s cold-pressed rapeseed oil is produced at Bottom

Movement: how to take back our streets and transform our lives

Movement: how to take back our streets and transform our lives

by Thalia Verkade and Marco te Broemmelstroet. Translated from the Dutch by Fiona Graham Once upon a time our streets were sociable spaces where people met to chat, and children safely played. But not now. Drivers, not pedestrians, rule our roads. How did we let that happen and what can