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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.
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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 pageLocal Meal & Food Inc Film 2010
Updated 27 July 2010
About 50 people came to the Memorial Hall in Charlbury on Saturday 24 July for a meal sourced from local gardens followed by a showing of the film Food Inc.
The sit-down meal in the Garden Room was lovely and really show-cased what great food is available in our gardens in July even in this very dry summer - anyone could grow the food we were eating to feed their own families at this time of year. Our meal was a stark contrast to the American food industry we found out about in the film which was very disturbing. However, the important message to take away from the film is that we all have choices when we buy food and that these choices WILL determine how the food industry reacts. We can also grow more of our own food - have a look at the Grow Your Own Food page on our website for ideas about where to start.
The Meal
- Swiss Chard, Courgette and Ham and Tomato Quiches
- Warm Charlotte potatoes with flat-leaved parsley and butter
- French bean, broad bean and courgette salad with honey, mustard and garlic dressing
- Tomato and basil salad
- Green salad with lettuce, cucumber, mint, chives, summer savoury, marjoram, basil
- Salad dressing with rapeseed oil, honey, mustard, sea salt, pepper
- Summer puddings and pavlova with compote of redcurrants, blackcurrants, gooseberries, & loganberries and garnished with raspberries
- Rhubarb cake (lots of rhubarb recipes on the Riverford website)
- Yoghurt, Cream, Soya Cream, Oatly Cream
THE LOCAL FOOD was brought to you by the following – many thanks to them all
Peter B – Lettuces, Raspberries, Courgettes, Tomatoes, French Beans
John M – Courgettes (quiche)
Louise S – Swiss Chard (quiche), Lettuce
Frances M – Cucumber, Chives, Marjoram, Basil
Jane M – Basil, Salad Dressings, Pavlova, Summer Puddings
Christine E – Loganberries, Blackberries, Gooseberries, Redcurrants, Potatoes, Summer Savoury, Mint, Chives, Rhubarb, Sea Salt
Tim & Juliet C – Redcurrants, blackcurrants
Good Food Shop – Quiches made with Matthews Flour, Callow Farm ham and local garden produce
Callow Farm - Ham
Halcyon Honey Farm – Honey for sweetening the soft fruit
Worton Organic Farm Shop, Cassington – Potatoes, Tomatoes, Flat-leaved Parsley
Lees Rest Farm – Eggs
Oxford Local Bread – Bread for Summer Puddings and Flour for Rhubarb Cake
Chipping Norton Organics – Broad Beans
Charlbury Co-op – Cream, Yoghurt, Butter
This was a collaborative event between ChOC, Sustainable Charlbury, and CAWAG. Thanks to everyone who helped: Jane for preparing the lovely food; Catherine for the flowers for the tables; Richard and Forbes for doing the chairs; Louise on the door; Jon, Philip and Jenny for the bar; Frances, Carina & Jenny for serving the food; St Mary's for use of plates and cutlery; Leah and Christine for use of tablecloths; Mike for the loan of the projection equipment and Colin for being the projectionist; and ALL who helped to dismantle everything at the end. You all made it a wonderful community event.
The Film
You'll never look at dinner the same way again!
Review from Transition Culture "Ultimately this is a hopeful film. Yes the food system is extremely powerful, but as the film says, so was the tobacco industry. The movement of local, organic, unprocessed food continues to grow. As one farmer interviewed in the film says “people have got to start demanding good wholesome food from us and we’ll deliver, I promise you”. ‘Food Inc.’ lays bare the fact that our food system, the most basic thing for a society to get right, has been hijacked, and is making us and the planet very, very sick. Hopefully this passionate, inspiring and powerful film will play a key role in the scaling back and replacing of industrial agriculture. Highly recommended."
Explore the Hungry for Change Cafeteria and learn about healthy food choices in school lunches.
The Soil Association has a small collection of educational resources for primary school teachers to download and use in the classroom.
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