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Food Inc is a new film about the food industry is being launched in February 2010 and there is a single showing at the Vue cinema in Oxford at 6.30pm on Monday 15 February
Greenpeace UK are calling for ingenious ideas about what to do with the Airplot site at Heathrow
The 10:10 Campaign brings you an excellent interactive guide to help you decide which light bulbs to buy to reduce your energy consumption.
Apple, Sony Ericsson and Nokia do well in Greenpeace's updated Guide to Greener Electronics, while Samsung, Dell, Lenovo and LGE disappoint.
Catch up with Franny Armstrong (Director of Age of Stupid) and Mark Lynas (author of Six Degrees) who are hosting The Stupid Show at 7pm each day from Friday 11th to Saturday 19th December - if you miss it live you can watch it again until the next edition.
This morning 56 newspapers in 45 countries took the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. They decided to do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.
BBC Click programme reporting on the new generation of portable solar chargers that will be suitable for laptops and other gadgets.
Recycling and kitchen waste weekly. Garden waste fortnightly. Residual waste fortnightly.
President Mohammed Nasheed's speech at the Climate Vulnerable Forum.
Watch this film on the Channel 4 website about the devastating event of overfishing.
Decision hailed by groups who staged Climate Camp protest. Lower electricity demands due to recession cited as reason.
Composting is not just for gardeners - it helps the environment too
Home compost bins now available from £18.50
Now from 2009 onwards, you can put your old Yellow Pages into the black box for recycling - previously these had to be collected separately in a special skip at the Spendlove.
The chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has said that the aviation industry is not "off the hook" when it comes to reducing CO2 levels.
10:10 is an ambitious project to unite every sector of British society behind one simple idea: that by working together we can achieve a 10% cut in the UK’s carbon emissions in 2010.
CAWAG has signed up as
The Bell Hotel has been awarded a bronze award from the Green Business Tourism Scheme for its green tourism policy.
Kimberly-Clark has, as a result of public pressure, released a new environmental fibre policy that governs how it will help conserve forests and support sustainable forestry and use more recycled fibre. . . . . .
Jonathon Porritt accuses PM of failing to understand the environment . . .
Charlbury's Bring & Share Picnic was part of the nationwide Big Lunch idea from the Eden Project.
Listen to Richard Curtis interviewed on Radio 4's Today programme recommending Obama should watch The Age of Stupid while he is over here.
The Good Food Shop in Charlbury now takes Brita water filters for recycling. Previously the nearest place for recycling water filters was Cargo at Witney.
Video clip of Prince Charles. "If we can redouble our efforts to unite the world in meeting pehaps its greatest and most crucial challenge, then we may yet be able to prevail and thereby be able to avoid bequeathing a poisoned chalice to our children and grandchildren, but we only have 100 months to act".
The scheme costs £51 per bin for 17 months. This fee includes one wheeled bin and collections from outside your home every two weeks, making it easier and less time-consuming for you to dispose of your garden waste in an environmentally-friendly manner. Collections will take place from 11 May 2009 until 24 September 2010. All garden waste is taken to a local commercial composting facility.
Mine of information about ethical living in Oxfordshire. Costs £4.50
Short of New Year Resolutions? Here are over a 100 ideas to reduce your carbon footprint.
Shop this Christmas in Charlbury and reduce your carbon footprint
Watch the Friends of the Earth video. Be irritated by Matt on Grist TV's short film. Comment on the 350 wordless animation. With your help, we'll make YouTube all about climate change, even if just for one day. Please watch, comment, and pass them on.
If you live in Milton-u-W, Shipton-u-W, or Ascot-u-W, then look at www.swych.org.uk to find out all the events planned.
All books are now linked to web reviews to help you decide what to borrow
In June 2008, CAWAG launched Charlbury Sharecroppers to help put people in touch with each other so that locally grown food does not go to waste and so that as many local people as possible can be involved with growing, picking and eating fresh, healthy food.
Think twice before using plastic bags for shopping - use a jute shopping bag showing the faces of 60 Charlbury children.
The first Saturday morning of each month, CAWAG have a collection bag for Tetra Paks alongside the recycling bins at the same time as the green waste collection at the Spendlove car park from 10am-12 noon.
Take your household batteries (including dead rechargeable batteries) to any of the special battery collection boxes now available at the Post Office, the Corner House, and the Primary School.
Have you ever considered having a wormery to rapidly compost your kitchen waste instead of sending it to landfill?
Please phone Louise Spicer on 01608-810745 to arrange to borrow the low-energy lightbulb library for a couple of nights or arrange a home visit - Louise can help you go through the bulbs to find the best choices.
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Last updated 2 February 2010
As the first snowdrops are appearing it is definitely time to announce our Spring Feast and Ceilidh
Saturday 27 March in the Memorial Hall, Browns Lane, Charlbury
Cost: £5/£3 (10-16yrs) and free under 10yrs
To celebrate the arrival of Spring with local seasonal food, drink and community...
Bring your delicious seasonal, local (UK) dishes to the Memorial Hall to share and once the feasting is over we will push the tables aside and the dancing will begin. Follow the link for ideas about local and seasonal food. A bar will be available with local beverages.
Music will be from the well-known group The Kismet Ceilidh Band.
All dances will be called so there’s no need to be afraid.
ALL WELCOME but
PLEASE DO BOOK as capacity is limited: phone 01608 811057 or email charlburyfeasts@cwag.org.uk
To quote Mahatma Ghandi "Be the change you want to see in the world.”
The 10:10 campaign was launched in September 2009. The aim of 10:10 is to get all of us, as people and organisations, to sign up to reduce our carbon emissions by 10% in a single year - this year - 2010. Follow the launch on Twitter. The entire Cabinet has already signed up to it. Oxford's Chris Goodall has written in the Guardian with ideas of how to reduce your carbon emissions by 10%. Also check out CO2 What Can I Do? and Smarter Driving pages on this website for a host of great ideas from people in Charlbury.
For links to videos and analysis about the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen please look at the Climate Change pages on this website.
People from CAWAG, Sustainable Charlbury and Churches Together in Charlbury went to London on Saturday 5 December for The Wave - about 50,000 people from all over the country attended and walked from Grosvenor Square to Westminster.
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Food makes such a significant contribution to our impact on the environment that we now have a new Food page with recipe suggestions from local people. Apple trees often bear large fruit crops every other year so, unlike 2008, we didn't have enough apples in Charlbury in 2009 to hold any Big Apple Take-Aways - hopefully they will be back in 2010. Charlbury Sharecroppers did, however, distribute apples from a location opposite the school and also at the Bring & Take in October. We also distributed loads of plums, damsons and greengages to people who had registered an interest in receiving them.
Use the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Quick Guide we distributed May 2008 for ideas about reducing your impact on the environment. Also check out CO2 What Can I Do? for our growing list of simple ideas from people of Charlbury - many of which will save you money. Also tips on smarter driving to reduce fuel consumption. For more detail about specific items, use our on-line A-Z and for inspiration watch the "Story of Stuff" and "WakeUp, Freak Out - then Get a Grip". See the Climate Change page for other inspirational short films. Oxford City Council's excellent Oxford is My World guide is also an excellent source of information.
By the way - if you already "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle", then how about adding "Reforest" too? A donation of £25 to the Woodland Trust will enable them to plant 25 square metres of woodland in the UK which will capture 1 tonne of carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the trees. Also sign up to Prince Charles' campaign to stop the destruction of tropical rainforests which in themselves are so important in protecting the world from further increases in carbon dioxide. The loss of the rainforests will dramatically make climate change worse and HRH The Prince of Wales made a keynote speech on 15 December at the opening ceremony of the High Level part of the UNFCCC Climate Conference in Copenhagen (watch video).
Borrow books from our Bookshare Library - these are displayed at the quarterly Farmers' Market and Sustainable Charlbury events, but they can be borrowed at any time via the website - book of the month for December is Saci Lloyd's Carbon Diaries 2015. New books are being acquired all the time, usually from Evenlode Books in Charlbury. Jon gives a good discount and delivery is usually the next day. So think twice before you order a book from other sellers on the web, buying from a local shop can be cheaper than the web, it benefits the local economy, you don't have to be in for delivery and you haven't caused so much cardboard packaging to be used.
Remember, battery collection boxes are located at the Corner House, the Post Office and Charlbury School - drop dead household batteries into these boxes instead of putting them in your black box.
Buy one of the last few CAWAG jute shopping bags for £2. These are now only available from the School and the Good Food Shop. All proceeds go to the school's Eco Project.
It's never too late in the year to start growing your own fruit & veg. This is the best way to reduce your food miles, reduce packaging and eat healthier! Register with Charlbury Sharecroppers if you have more fruit and veg than you can cope with or would like to help pick fruit and veg that would otherwise go to waste, or if you have some garden space you'd like someone else to grow vegetables on, or if you are looking for somewhere to grow veg. We will help put you in touch with each other. Robert Longstaff runs short courses about growing vegetables at Longworth just south of Witney.
Contact Lynne at the Good Food Shop (811157) is you have surplus garden produce you'd like to sell.
Make an appointment to borrow the Low-Energy Lightbulb Library to find lightbulbs to suit all your light fittings or to borrow the wattage meter to find out how much energy various electrical appliances around your house actually use.
Click on the event below for more details:
Thursday: Colin Tudge on the Campaign for Real Farming, Eynsham
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