Every year the Climate Coalition1 organises two important annual climate events, the Great Big Green Week and Show the Love. As a member of the Climate Coalition the Women’s Institute (WI) has been taking part in Show the Love for years. CA-WN always contributes to the Great Big Green

Effective communication about climate change to ‘the general public’, i.e. those outside the green environmental tent, is a familiar and knotty problem. Climate Fresk tries to address this through the medium of a ‘collaborative game’. Within the CA-WN ranks we have a trained Climate Fresk facilitator, Maria Lee. Maria

CA-WN out and about

CA-WN has been collaborating with Northamptonshire ACRE (NACRE) for years. This is their story ... WHAT IS NACRE? Northamptonshire ACRE (Action with Communities in Rural England) is a countywide, independent charitable organisation working with rural communities in Northamptonshire to improve their quality of life, especially for those disadvantaged by their rurality.

CA-WN teamed up with Friends of the Earth at Kelmarsh Hall. Over the August Bank Holiday hundreds of Shambala festival goers came to talk about our action on climate and sign up to FoE's Planet over Profit campaign. FOOTNOTE Yes. Footnote. The Shambala festival has sustainability at its

The ONE Campaign, sponsored by many of the world’s greatest charitable foundations, hosted a Great Big Green Week event for Milton Keynes. And CA-WN was invited. A diary clash had pushed the event to Saturday 24 June, the week after the official GBGW, which very usefully highlights that if

CA-WN out and about

CA-WN out and about

CA-WN out and about

As the date for the King’s Coronation was set, among the Bugbrooke Environmental Working Group excitement was mixed with concern about potential sustainability issues. So, we came up with some suggestions for organisers to help make Coronation celebrations as sustainable as possible, and worked with the village event committee

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

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

India Palmer On Saturday 14th January Byfield village held its first sustainability event in the village hall. The event came about through eco-enthusiasts India Palmer, who lives in Byfield, and Helen Buttrick, working with the village Parish Council. The Parish Council were extremely supportive of promoting sustainability in the community.