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Charlbury's waste collections will be changing this autumn and new containers for food waste and green waste will be provided by WODC.
Location of new local centre not yet confirmed, but possibly Enstone. Read fuller report in Oxford Times.
Everyone's booking their summer break this month. Avoid airport misery with a climate-friendly getaway. Plan your overground trip with Loco2. Win a 10:10 holiday.
The 10:10 Campaign say Spring has sprung, and it's the perfect time to get outside and try growing your own fruit and veg
The new film Dirty Oil is being shown at the Phoenix, Oxford on this single occasion. Tickets are booked FREE if you are a Co-op member.
The 10:10 Campaign brings you an excellent guide to help you through the range of options for insulating your home to reduce your energy consumption.
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.
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. . . . . .
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.
Short of New Year Resolutions? Here are over a 100 ideas to 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.
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.
Print this pageChristmas
Updated 21 December 2009
Christmas is coming and those special things bought for Christmas soon become "rubbish" - the extra refuse collected after Christmas amounts to an average five extra sackfuls per household compared to the rest of the year. During January, take your Christmas cards (and other greetings cards) to WH Smith, M&S, and TK Maxx stores where there are collection points for the Woodland Trust who generate money from recycling the cards and use the money to plant new woodlands in the UK - this year you can even tell them which region you'd like the trees planted in! Alternatively, hang onto the cards to remake your own next year. Send e-cards which are free! Our behaviour over the 3 days of Christmas apparently contributes "5.5 per cent of the UK's average carbon footprint of 11.87 tons per person a year" – equivalent to 20 days of normal consumption.
December 2006 - Graffiti spotted on a post box in St Giles' - "This Xmas Santa Claus wants YOU to curb your consumption".
There are loads of ideas around to help us change all this. Read some ideas for a greener Christmas from Charlbury's Kieran Cooke published in The Times. Try these top 10 tips for a green, sustainable and eco-friendly Christmas. Prepare for a less wasteful Christmas using the Green Guide For Christmas (ISBN: 0-9526841-0-1 £4.99) or go to: www.greenguide.online.com.
Christmas is not just a time of excessive food consumption but also a time when people receive unwanted presents. Joel Waldfogel's research into the happiness of present giving shows that people receiving presents don't value the presents as much as they are worth - 20% less, so of the £87bn spent worldwide on gifts at this time of year you could say that £15bn was wasted! The "deadweight value" or disappointment with presents is most likely to occur with presents between extended family and friends where people don't really know what they would each like. Gift vouchers might be best here, but charity gifts are also a popular way to avoid giving unwanted presents - giving "unwrapped" charity gifts on behalf of your friends to Oxfam will make a real difference to the lives of the people that receive them. Take unwanted presents to the local Charlbury "Bring & Take" in March or to local charity shops.
Use material bags to wrap presents in, either bags that the recipient can reuse or make permanent present bags in a range of sizes which you can reuse each year in your own family. These bags were mostly made from offcuts of gorgeous materials bought from Anna Belinda in Oxford, but also scarves following the Japanese tradition of tsutsumi.
Buy a Christmas Wreath to support the Lawrence Home Nursing Team - Charlbury Pre-School have organised making the wreaths and they are for sale at the Good Food Shop.
Buying food and gifts locally will also be beneficial to the local economy and reducce your carbon footprint. There are lots of benefits from buying local produce, research shows that for money spent on local produce stays in the local economy, so there is evidence that buying local isn't more expensive. Books can be ordered at a discount from Evenlode Books in Market Street and are usually delivered to the shop the next day so no worries about your book parcel getting lost in the Christmas post or not being delivered because you're not in.
Short of New Year Resolutions? Check out CO2 What Can I Do? and Smarter Driving pages for a host of great ideas from people in Charlbury.
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