Sustainability

19 Nov Eco Wrapping

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If we estimate 2 million tons of wrapping paper used over Christmas, this equates to 30 million trees. Most wrapping paper is dyed, laminated and contains glitter, plastic or gold shapes, so it can’t easily be recycled. You can tell by trying to scrunch it...

11 Nov How will Climate Change affect Guernsey?

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Food and EssentialsClimate change will bring more frequent, more extreme storms. As an island, Guernsey is dependent on both forms of transport to bring in essential supplies such as food. When the boats and the planes can't get in and out, then the shelves the...

08 Nov Day 2 COP27

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COP27 Presidency launches Adaptation Agenda to build climate resilience for 4 billion by 2030 In the Fulani village of Hore Mondji, in southern Mauritania, a women's cooperative uses solar energy to operate the borehole that supplies water to the market garden. A project piloted by UNICEF...

24 Oct Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival 2022

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Click on the image to take you to the homepage for this festival This festival took place in October 2022. Guernsey was represented by two talks:1. Explaining how to find your school carbon footprint by school pupils - (apologies this video will be not be available until...

17 Aug Four Mills Community eco space

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The Turning tides project is a community interest company who believe that everyone has the right of equal access to music, arts and life. Many of the people who benefit from this project are autistic and have a learning disability.The project takes a social model...

15 Aug 15 minute cities – a more sustainable way to live

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What is the 15 minute city initiative?The 15-minute city is defined by its ability to provide access to all human needs by walking or bicycling for a quarter hour or less.It is socioeconomically equitable—those without a car could easily access all their needs. This requirement...

28 Jul How much do you know about food production and climate change?

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Section 1: Farmed Animals‘From all the greenhouse gas emissions produced by man, 16 % of this is methane while around a third of that comes from ruminant livestock'Prof. John Wallace, University of Aberdeen, UK source: https://bit.ly/3PJAJYs Farmed animals give off a lot of...

10 Jan Chemists can be sustainable too

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