Stevenage Borough Council Citizens’ Panel on Climate Change Report released Action needed to reach Net Zero by 2030 In October 2020 one of our Stevenage members, Jim Borcherds, was invited by Stevenage Borough Council (SBC) to join a Citizens Panel on Climate Change. The panel was professionally moderated over four short sessions. The first […]
Category: Climate Emergency
Nuclear Energy (Finance) Bill
Our Membership Officer, Deolinda Eltringham writes to her MP, Mr Bim Afolami, Conservative MP for Hitchin & Harpenden “Please vote against the Nuclear Energy (Finance) Bill” Good morning , Mr Afolami MP, I am writing to urge you to vote against the Nuclear Energy (Finance) Bill which has its final reading in the House of […]
Fight Climate Change by Planting Trees
Fight Climate Change by Planting Trees Article submitted by Kruna Vukmirovic There is always an opportunity to do more for the environment and planting trees is one such activity that will benefit the generations to come. Trees fight climate change by capturing carbon through photosynthesis and the entire woodland ecosystem including the living wood, roots, […]
Tomorrow! Post COP Climate Cafe
Post-COP Climate Café – THIS FRIDAY! 19th Nov. 18.30-20.00: Edwinstree School, Buntingford: Now that the COP in Glasgow is all over, are you any clearer about what happened there? Do you know whether to feel positive or depressed? Come to Edwinstree on Friday at 18.30 and find out! Hear from the Buntingford Ambassadors to the […]
Greens call for a Carbon Tax at COP26
Greens call on government to bring in carbon tax at COP26 Article submitted by Kruna Vukmirovic The Green Party is calling on the government to make ambitious plans to tackle the climate emergency by announcing a carbon tax at COP26. Under the Green Party’s proposal, the tax should start at £100 per tonne of carbon […]
Local Events during COP26
North Herts and Stevenage Green Party encourage our Members to participate in the local events taking place during COP26. Date: Saturday 30th October from 10:00 to 15:00 Organiser: Baldock Beats Waste Title of event: Baldock EcoFest Description of event: Stalls from a range of local environmental groups and businesses, including North Herts Friends of Earth. […]
NHDC Climate Emergency
NHDC Declares a climate emergency By Nicky Clark on behalf of NH&S GP, Hitchin Labour Group, NH XR, FOE, and TTL In March 2019 Labour’s Cllr Martin Stears-Hanscombe tabled a draft Motion for NHDC to declare a Climate Emergency that had been written by David de Smet of Labour. He had the support and backing […]
Climate Change
By DJN for the North Herts Green Party April 2019 The earth has warmed 14 degrees C in the last 3 million years. What does this mean for us? Some of the effects are: shrinking ice sheets at our poles disappearing glaciers rising sea levels higher rates of temperature-rise over land and sea increases in […]
Car Idling
Vehicle idling is an offence, it’s also… Expensive Bad for breathing Bad for children An ineffective way to warm your vehicle Damaging your vehicle by not operating at optimum Idling refers to running a vehicle’s engine when the vehicle is not in motion. This commonly occurs when drivers are stopped at a red light, waiting […]
