Green Groups in the Shelfords, Stapleford and Sawston
Conversation Evening Plastic is a fantastic material. It is light, easily shaped, strong and inexpensive - and it doesn’t corrode. But there’s a downside. Mass production started in the mid twentieth century and the vast majority of plastic ever created still exists. It is estimated that up to 12.7 million tons of plastic enters the …
FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT AND WHY IT MATTERS 8 pm on Tuesday 3 December at the Three Horseshoes, Stapleford By the end of the last Parliament, over 300 cross-party MPs were calling on their pension fund to divest from fossil fuels. Is this enough? How many other organisations are following suit? Dr James Smith, Public Health …
Are natural disasters OUR FAULT? Most deaths caused by so-called 'natural' disasters have human responsibility behind them. Floods kill more people every year than all other natural disasters. Yet it is clear that climate change, primarily caused by burning fossil fuels, greatly exacerbates the power of storms and floods, generates long-term droughts, and causes heat …
Our final conversation evening for this winter on the subject of climate change. We welcome Jenny and Derek Langley from Cambridge XR who will give their personal insight into XR and answer our questions.
2G3S Conversation Evenings: Climate Change Extinction Rebellion We are delighted to welcome Jenny and Derek Langley from Cambridge XR who will give their personal insight into what XR is all about, followed by a chance to ask questions 8 pm Monday 26 October 2020 A Zoom meeting: contact greengroupssss@gmail.com with the heading ‘XR talk’ …
CONVERSATION EVENING: SUSTAINABLE DIETARY CHOICES Duncan Catchpole, founder of The Cambridge Organic Food Company and committee member of Cambridge Sustainable Food, will talk and answer questions about how the food system is contributing to climate change, and how we can make good dietary choices from an environmental perspective. He will also update us on …
WE ARE CORDIALLY INVITED to join Stapleford resident Patricia Mirrlees for a drink and a chat at her home The Stone House, 40 Mingle Lane, from 6.30 – 8.00 pm on Wednesday 25 August. This will be a social occasion at which we can get to know each other, but we shall also be …
Conversation Evening: CamLETS Monday 7 February 2022, 8.00 pm Peter Pope from CamLETS will talk to us about Local Exchange Trading Schemes (LETS) which are a way for a local community to trade skills, services or goods without using money. Cambridge has had a thriving scheme (CamLETS) since 1993. People from all over …
Welcome to the new 2G3S Book Club where we are going to be discussing books (and articles, podcasts etc) with an environmental theme. We are going to start with 'Doughnut Economics' by Kate Raworth and are meeting at The Rose, Stapleford, at 7.30 pm on Thursday 19 May. All are welcome to come along and …