Pre-budget announcement of an insulation support scheme – a good start and we look forward to seeing the details … https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53313640
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Category: Climate Care
How to reduce your carbon footprint
Mike and Liz Bourke installed solar PV panels over 10 years ago. Now they share their energy use and household carbon…
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Community Led Plan – Environment Response
Did you contribute to the Stretton Town Council Community Led Plan (CLP)? Stretton Climate Care Trustees have submitted a response…
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Climate change: Top 10 tips to reduce carbon footprint revealed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52719662
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Warmer Homes Shropshire launched to help households lower their heating bills and stay warmer at home
To help bring down the cost of heating bills for fuel poor and vulnerable households, Shropshire Council along with Herefordshire…
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Climate Emergency – 1 year on
Dean Carroll, Shropshire Council Cabinet member for adult social care, public health and climate change, said: “Shropshire Council was already…
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EV Point at Easthope car park, Church Stretton
The new EV charging point at Easthope car park was up and running before the restrictions were in place, but…
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Wettest February on record
Last month was the wettest February in the UK since records began in 1862. Three named storms in three successive…
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Chasing Coral
Coral reefs are the nursery for all life in the oceans, a remarkable ecosystem that sustains us. Yet with carbon…
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If You Choose to Fail Us We will Never Forgive You
We rarely see Greta Thunberg getting emotional. Her speeches are clear and direct, but usually delivered with an assertive calmness…
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Follow the Global Climate Strike
Follow details of the global climate strike here. The most inspirational picture so far comes from Afghanistan. It may not…
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The First Moon Landing and the Environment
It was the launching of human beings into space in the 1960’s which gave humanity a new ecological awareness. In…
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DIY TetraPak Recycling
Having declared a climate emergency, Shropshire Council has now removed all recycling banks. Duh. They say you can use the kerbside…
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Greta Thunberg: Can you hear me?
In a quietly delivered but devastating speech to members of Parliament on Tuesday 23 April (remember that date) 16 year old…
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UK Hotter than Ibiza – And Wildfires in Winter
21 years ago the UK had its warmest winter day since records began – 19.7 degrees. 26 February 2019 saw…
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Stretton in Twenty Years
What would the Strettons have to be like, twenty years from now, for people to want to live and work…
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There’s Good News and Bad News
First, the bad news. Only six countries are on track to meet their emissions targets under the Paris Agreement, and…
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Give Me Eight Minutes, Mr President
Donald Trump says it’s no longer a Chinese conspiracy. It’s happening, but it’s all part of a natural cycle, and…
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Cutting down on plastic in the Strettons
Saturday 6thOctober. It was cold and wet – but four intrepid activists with Stretton Climate Care were found outside the…
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Pull Back Now or Fry; IPPC Abandons Fluffy Wording
After decades of hedging its bets, the IPCC has put it starkly; we are on the edge of climate disaster…
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