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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 page5. CLIMATE CHANGE
Last updated 16 February 2010
Apart from climate change issues and the recent hostile debate in the press, there is no doubt that the world is facing a severe energy and resource crisis. Production of oil has peaked and we don't have an alternative energy supply to support our current lifestyles, let alone the developing western lifestyles of China and India. Back in 2006, the WWF reported on current UK lifestyles requiring the resources of 3 planets. For an amusing but serious view on ever growing economies, have a look at The Impossible Hamster.
The Impossible Hamster
The 10:10 campaign was launched in September 2009 at the Tate Modern's huge turbine hall - 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 - 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%. Reduce your carbon emissions and you will inevitably reduce your ecological footprint too and bring down the number of planets you require!
Just ahead of the 2009 party conferences, a coalition of environmental groups (the Green Alliance; Friends of the Earth; the Woodland Trust; WWF; the Wildlife Trusts; the RSPB; the Campaign to Protect Rural England and Greenpeace) issued a 10-point manifesto urging the next government to put cutting carbon emissions at the top of their agenda and to achieve cuts of at least 40% by 2020 instead of the 32% signed up to by the current government. They want a large investment in energy production and green transport, a ban on coal-fired power plants, an end to airport expansion and a nationwide housing re-fit to boost energy efficiency, a doubling of woodland in the UK and the provision of green space within walking distance of every home.
Try the BBC's electricity calculator to see how the UK's electricity predicted demand of 381 bn kWh in 2020 could be generated and the associated carbon emissions.
06/01/10 - Met Office: "What's causing the cold weather?"
Why people dispute climate change
The Guardian on Climate Change
The Independent on Climate Change
The Community Channel (Freeview 87, Sky 539, Virgin TV 233) is showing a season of films about Climate Change and the Environment
The Greening of the Deserts Three part BBC documentary series where Ayisha Yahya, a Tanzanian, explores climate change issues in the African desert (recorded on location in Mali, Namibia and Egypt).
After hearing the result of the Copenhagen talks, one member from Africa wrote "It takes a lot to get an elephant moving, but when you do it is hard to stop...the elephant is moving..."
20/12/09 - Joss Garman: Copenhagen - Historic failure that will live in infamy
19/12/09 - Mark Lynas's Copenhagen Notebook
Final Statements at Copenhagen
3264 Vigils
Reading 14 million petition names
The Stupid Show
Franny Armstrong interviews Ed Milliband
07/12/09 - Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'
This editorial calling for action from world leaders on climate change was published by 56 newspapers around the world in 20 languages
Global Wake-Up Call
On Monday 21 September at 12.18pm local time, global climate wakeup call events happened all round the world. The time of 12.18pm was chosen because it signifies the date the Copenhagen talks end on 18 December when it is hoped that a bold climate deal will have been agreed by world leaders. This date was also the release date for the Age of Stupid film in the USA when the world's press was in New York for the UN's climate meeting on 22 September attended by 80 heads of state.
10:10
The story of the 10:10 tag (747 to 1010 in 34 seconds)
The Prince's Rainforests Project
Zero Carbon Britain
Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip
Climate Change explained in 26 steps
Age of Stupid Trailer
Maldives Underwater Cabinet Meeting
Message in the Waves
End of the Line
Food Inc
Aviation and Climate Change
Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise expedition to the Petermann Glacier
Fish on Climate Change and China
Contract & Converge from the Age of Stupid
The Story of Stuff
War for Resources from The Age of Stupid
Capitalism: A Love Story
A-Z Climate Change (O for Outsourcing)
Severn Suzuki speaking at UN Earth Summit 1992
Kivalina: The Canary in the Mine
How sea level rise has affected the Maldives
Be the change you want to see in the World - Mahatma Ghandi
Act Now!
How Many Ligtbulbs?
1 minute to save the World competition - Eco Fund
Coalfinger
People change politics - the inside story of the Climate Change Law
The End of Oil (Part 1 of 6)
The End of Oil (Part 2 of 6)
The End of Oil (Part 3 of 6)
The End of Oil (Part 4 of 6)
The End of Oil (Part 5 of 6)
The End of Oil (Part 6 of 6)
Crude Impact
Marcus Brigstock's Eco-Pad
Paul Hawken speaking to the Class of 2009 - University of Portland:
This extraordinary time when we are globally aware of each other and the multiple dangers that threaten civilization has never happened, not in a thousand years, not in ten thousand years. Each of us is as complex and beautiful as all the stars in the universe. We have done great things and we have gone way off course in terms of honoring creation. You are graduating to the most amazing, stupefying challenge ever bequested to any generation.
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