Local Green Party in North Hertfordshire and Stevenage
Ecotips
11 April 2023 / 27 March 2024 by daveeldervass
Lots of compost on sale is now peat free – hurray! Please choose this – you are playing your part in preserving peatlands which are very valuable carbon sinks and which help biodiversity and help combat global warming by locking in CO2, which our planet desperately needs to do! Thanks to Katrina Nice for this […]
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Elections
9 April 2023 / 27 March 2024 by daveeldervass
Our Green Party candidates for North Hertfordshire Arbury: Davina Malcolm Baldock Town: Tim Lee Cadwell: Anni Sander Ermine: Hugh Parker Hitchin Bearton: Deolinda Eltringham Hitchin Highbury: Kruna Vukmirovic Hitchin Walsworth: Will Lavin Hitchwood Offa & Hoo: Nicky Clark Letchworth Grange: David Morris Letchworth South East: Maryla Hart Letchworth South West: Dugald Muir Royston Meridian: Des […]
Local Campaigns Members' Activities
9 April 2023 / 27 March 2024 by northhertsgreenparty
Reporting on Air pollution in North Herts and Stevenage – Nitrogen Dioxide readings (2022-2023) Over the winter of 2022/23 members of the North Herts & Stevenage Green Party set up monitoring stations at several locations in Hitchin and Stevenage to measure the cumulative levels of Nitrogen dioxide. North Herts Council have only two stations and […]
25 March 2023 / 27 March 2024 by daveeldervass
North Herts and Stevenage Green Party has elected two new co-chairs at our March 2023 monthly meeting. Jim Borcherds has lived in Stevenage since 1989. He taught at Marriotts School for 12 years and now works as an Education Consultant supporting Secondary schools across Hertfordshire and beyond with their timetables. For transport, Jim’s first choice […]
18 March 2023 / 27 March 2024 by daveeldervass
Deolinda has been a campaigner for local issues in Hitchin for decades and has a strong track record of supporting local residents.
Climate Emergency Local Campaigns Members' Activities
7 March 2023 / 27 March 2024 by daveeldervass
Deolinda is featured in an article in this month’s Hertfordshire Life magazine to mark International Women’s Day – 8th March 2023. The article highlights her work with Terracycle which has led to over 22 tonnes of material being recycled. If you’d like to increase your recycling beyond the standard kerbside collections, have a look at […]
Climate Emergency National Campaigns
6 March 2023 / 27 March 2024 by daveeldervass
Friends of the Earth are campaigning for the government to provide better home insulation. Their campaign page explains why there is an energy crisis, and explains the solution: Insulating our energy-inefficient homes, supporting those most at risk and moving to cleaner, cheaper renewable energy. They have also put together energy-saving tips that you can act […]
26 February 2023 / 12 October 2024 by daveeldervass
Here is an eco-tip courtesy of Which? magazine. Their very useful article gives detailed information on how to recycle your mobile phone: https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-to-recycle-your-mobile-phone-a4RH90q3yNtT For more recent phones, you may be able to sell them so that someone else can use them again. For older phones, there are charities that will pass them on to people […]
Speakers Corner
They have done it again! For the third year in a row DEFRA has given emergency authorisation for sugar beet farmers or rather seed merchants to treat seed with Neonicotinoids[1]. The Secretary of state for environment, formerly briefly in charge of the nation’s health, is now set to wreak havoc on the natural environment too. […]
30 January 2023 / 12 October 2024 by daveeldervass
Microwaves aren’t just for ready meals. Save time and energy costs (especially if you cook with gas) by using them for jacket potatoes, soup, veg, porridge or hot chocolate!
