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Schools Strike for Action on Climate Change. Colin Carritt, SusWoo Vice-chair, on why the striking schoolkids are heros
February 2019
It's good to see Woodstock businesses trying to help out with plastics by offering water refills and it's up to us, as individuals to see what we can do to make the difference. The picture below shows Cornwall Wildlife Trusts clean up on just one beach and we find similar amounts around our streets. Let's lobby our MPs for change at the highest level and in business. A few diary dates included below for events you might like to join in or tell others about.
Enjoy the snowdrops.
Hilary Brown Chair of Sustainable Woodstock.
WOODSTOCK - BE THE CHANGE
Sustainable Woodstock has now registered Woodstock town with the Plastic Free Communities network. Whether you live inland, on shore, urban or rural, high-rise or high-tide, communities are uniting in the fight against single-use plastics. It’s not about removing all plastic from our lives. It’s about kicking our addiction to avoidable single-use plastic and changing the system that produces it.
There's still more to do in Woodstock for us to achieve the status of single-use plastic free town and many still seem to be hooked on the single-use plastic bag. Let's get serious Woodstock and let's get busy avoiding single-use wherever we can.
It’s virtually impossible to get the existing 269,000 tonnes of plastic out of the ocean, but together we can stop putting more in.
By creating a global network of Plastic Free Communities, people are coming together in a collective effort to reduce the flow of unnecessary single-use plastics into the marine environment. Click HERE for 5 ways to break up with plastic.
Diary Date: 2nd March Mayor's Parlour, Woodstock
9:30 - noon.
"Buy
a Long Life Fairtrade Bag"
Sustainable
Woodstock bags available from Mary & Martin's newsagent, our Post Office, Hampers
and mnay other outlets.
AND AT THE FAIRTRADE COFFEE MORNING!
If you'd like some for your business email us at
Sustainable
Woodstock.
The Great Woodstock
Litter Pick
Diary Date
Saturday 9th March 10 am-12 noon
Thanks
Oxfordshire Museum, King's Arms & The Woodstock Bookshop
for Offering Water Refills.
Helping us kick the plastic
Join the Refill Revolution!
If you are a Woodstock business and wish to offer refills go online https://refill.org.uk . If you're feeling inspired, download the Refill app and make refilling the new normal!
Producing bottled water creates 500
times more CO2 than tap water. That’s why Refill Oxford has created a
network of Refill stations where you can fill up your water bottle for
free to reduce plastic pollution. Look out for a business with Refill
stickers. There are now over 14 thousand Refill stations all over the UK
and if Woodstock restaurants, schools, cafes or pubs would like to
sign up to be a Refill station and help reduce plastic pollution just
email refill.oxford@gmail.com and
they'll do the rest.
Refill Oxford is part of City to Sea’s national campaign to
promote the use of free tap water to reduce plastic waste. In Oxford,
there is a network of nearly 150 Refill stations in places such as cafes,
bars, pubs, restaurants, bus stations, hospitals, community centres and
hairdressers all over the city. So now you can refill your water bottles
whenever you need to, rather than buying a new plastic bottle.
Save money, stay hydrated and prevent plastic pollution at
source by using the free Refill
App on
the go, OR look for the Refill droplet in shop windows. This will
dramatically reduce the use of the billions of single-use plastic water
bottles bought in the UK every year.
Diary Date Saturday 16th March
We'd like to invite you to scatter the seed in the Woodland and Orchard ... and why not join us later in the summer to see how successful we are. Try and name all the plants that have successfully grown next summer.
Hopefully, we will help to increase biodiversity but why should we care?
We are surrounded by greenery here in Woodstock but most of the agriculture is sprayed with herbicides and pesticides throughout the growing season which destroys much of our local eco-systems. It's become clear that we depend on biodiversity to survive. Life as we know it is only made possible due to the complex interactions between the different lifeforms that live on earth. We rely on certain plants and animals for the food we eat, while trees and other plants produce the oxygen we need to breathe and remove harmful pollutants from the air. Biodiversity boosts ecosystem productivity where each species, no matter how small, all have an important role to play.
People frequently ask about doorstep deliveries of milk and other goodies. You could try Milk and More who support local British farmers and producers. Perhaps you've been thinking about vegetable boxes or meat delivery and this link may give you some ideas.
Be
Prepared & Quit Idling
Around our schools, our streets, our shops and just about
everywhere..... please cut your engine. Remember.....Drivers
who don't cut their engines are actually
breaking the law and risk being fined.
Invest
in Green Energy?
you may be interested in the Community Energy Fund.
Low Carbon Hub wants to strengthen and grow community owned energy in Oxfordshire. Energy that's good for people, and good for the planet. Join almost a thousand like-minded investors and put your money to work tackling climate change.
- Keep money in the local economy through community ownership
- Tackle the global issue of climate change on a local level
- 100% of our surpluses support further local action on climate change
* INVESTMENTS CAN GO UP OR DOWN - TAKE ADVISE
Sponsor
a Tree in our Community Orchard?
Over 50% now sponsored. You can sponsor a
tree as a group, with friends, colleagues. You will receive
a certificate and can dedicate if you wish.
How to Pay?
Costs £30 (single payment)
1) BACS payment.
2) Cheque
For details contact as below.
Questions ? Call 01993 811975 or email
sustainablewoodstockuk@gmail.com
Thanks for the Bluebells
Woodstock
in Bloom and Sustainable Woodstock thank all volunteers for their
time....and their effort. A total of 4000 Bluebells have now been
planted in the Community Woodland!
Eynsham's Zero Waste shop is now open (see Eynsham's site by CLICKING
HERE).
Look them up, next time you're passing.. Perhaps somebody is willing to
consider opening a shop here in Woodstock?
Opening Times
Monday-Thursday 9am-6pm; Friday 9am to 6.30pm
Saturday 9am to 6pm
Sustainability is often defined as meeting the needs of present
generations without risking the ability of futures generations to meet
their own needs and should lead to a better quality of life for
everyone, now and for generations to come.