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Brailsford's Wildlife Hotel

Fri, 14 May 2021

Brailsford Parish Council are trying to rewild a small piece of land that had become neglected. They have started by building a Brailsford's Wildlife Hotel with decaying logs. The local birds are already enjoying it so there must be someone in residence!

They hope to let most of the grass grow longer and have also planted some wildflower seeds, wild snowdrops, and added a bird box and bee a hotel.

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Submit Ideas for “Together Our Planet, Together Our Future” Mural

Fri, 14 May 2021

With the aim of empowering the local community to take action against climate change, Green Meadows, the £1.5 million National Lottery Climate Action funded project, has launched the Community Mural. The mural is designed to creatively involve residents from The Meadows area in Nottingham City and further afield.

For this project, Nottingham-based residents are invited to contribute ideas, drawings, short stories, or poems under the theme “Together our planet, together our future”. Submissions can be any size, length, medium or material, and can be submitted digitally or by post. Deadline is 30th May 2021.

Mural artists can also register interest for future involvement in the project via the website.

https://bit.ly/3tM7CrP

Apple manufacturing to source 100% renewable electricity, thriving Australian reef shows what is possible, and more...

Mon, 12 April 2021

National/International News in Brief (April 2021): 

  • Climate-concerned gardeners demand UK ban on peat compost

    https://bit.ly/31Ux42N
     

  • More than 100 of Apple’s manufacturing partners have agreed to source 100% renewable electricity for the production of Apple products

    https://bit.ly/3mxR3O8
     

  • Britain's electricity system 'greenest ever' over Easter

    https://bbc.in/3cZqiz1 
     

  • Rowley Shoals: thriving Australian reef shows what’s possible when ecosystems are untouched by humans

    https://bit.ly/3mDWBHj

Struggling Green Homes Grant Scheme Scrapped

Mon, 12 April 2021

Green Homes Grant (GHG), the government voucher scheme to help towards the cost of installing energy efficiency measures, was scrapped last Wednesday (31st March). Initially extended till March 2022, GHG was touted as UK’s answer to ‘build back greener’. But the scheme has struggled from the start with poor installer capacity, slow application processing times, and delayed payments.

The goal of the programme was to reach 600,000 homes. Out of the 123,000 applications received by the end of February, only 28,000 vouchers have been issued and only 5,800 energy efficiency measures had been installed.

The £300m previously allocated for the GHG will now go into a programme administered by local authorities, Local Authority Delivery Scheme, targeted at lower income households.

https://bit.ly/2OxFB8N

U-turn on A38 Derby, 100 Sakura cherry trees arrive in Derbyshire, and more...

Mon, 12 April 2021

Local News In Brief (April 2021): 

  • U-turn on A38 Derby Junctions road scheme as Transport Minister Grant Shapps admits that he acted unlawfully when he approved the expansion scheme.

    https://bit.ly/3dNlNXP
     

  • ‘A prosperous and green Derbyshire’ is one of the key priorities in new Derbyshire County Council Plan, with a pledge to invest £40m to maintain road and pathways  and develop sustainable methods of travel.

    https://bit.ly/3dJ8APB
     

  • 100 Sakura cherry trees arrive in Derbyshire as part of Toyota City Partnership to celebrate Japan’s friendship with the UK. 

    https://bit.ly/39RYRFA