Basingstoke Clean Air Campaign

24/11/2024

Have you seen the news that Energise South Downs have WON The Countryside Charity (CPRE) Climate Action award?

In even better news, winners of the four Countryside Awards then become nominees for the overall Hampshire Choice Award. This is an award YOU can vote on! So please, vote for ESD before 5pm on Friday 6th December. The winner will be announced on the 10th of December.

These awards celebrate those whose mission is to promote, enhance and protect a thriving Hampshire countryside that enriches all our lives. They celebrate the passion and commitment of those who take action and make a positive impact on their local environment so that the countryside can flourish for the benefit of people and planet.

Congratulations to our fellow winners: Blacknest Fields Nature Recovery, Walk n Talk Therapies by Wi******er Youth Counselling, and Alton in Bloom Community Grow Club. What a lot we have to be proud of in our patch!

Please vote here by Dec 6th: https://www.cprehampshire.org.uk/hampshire-choice-award-cast-your-vote/

13/08/2024

**This giveaway has closed as stocks have now run out**

Thousands of free trees are up for grabs in the Tree-mendous Giveaway!

You can get up to two free trees to plant in your garden this autumn that'll help to encourage our native wildlife and absorb carbon too.

Applications are open until Sunday 10 November, or when stocks run out. You must live in the borough of Basingstoke and Deane. The 11 available varieties are spindle, guelder rose, wayfaring, blackthorn, hazel, elder, hawthorn, crab apple, field maple, bird cherry and rowan.

The free trees are from the Hampshire Forest Partnership, which aims to see one million trees planted across the county as part of an ambitious programme of work by Hampshire County Council to tackle climate change.

Apply or find out more: https://sustainable-basingstoke.co.uk/tree-mendous-giveaway

27/06/2024

Bit of a complex graph, but basically the Tory/LibDem policy to stop energy efficiency improvements, ban onshore wind and slow down solar power development has increased energy prices by £22bn.

More here https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cutting-the-green-crap-has-added-22bn-to-uk-energy-bills-since-2015/

23/12/2023

Well, they said it could not be done. As of 1:30pm today 86.2% of the UK's electricity was coming from renewables and low carbon generation. Another 7% was coming from France, which is mainly low carbon as well. Only 7% was coming from fossil fuels.

See https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live for updates.

21/09/2023

If you haven't seen the Chis Packham channel 4 programme I suggest you watch it.

Chris Packham: Is It Time to Break the Law ? I look at the evolving nature of climate protests and ask the question , is it time to break the law ? Wednesday @ 9pm |

17/09/2023

This is not good.

We know the cause and we know the solution.

Stop burning fossil fuels.

It ain't rocket science.

Missing winter sea ice signals changes that could be a "disaster for the world", scientists say.

31/08/2023

Yesterday the government introduced a law that forces a council to assume pollution from new houses does not exist. This is utter nonsense.

Craig Bennett(Wildlife Trust) on the Tories watering down water pollution levels to build new houses. "This govt has done an appalling job tackling pollution & what it announced, yesterday, is almost Orwellian... it ignores science... & just pretends sewage does not exist.. "

22/08/2023

We, as individuals, can do a lot to reduce carbon emissions, but these are the guys that really need to step up and take responsibility.

19/08/2023

July was the hottest month ever recorded by humans. And the hottest by a huge margin.

At the same time glaciers are retreating, sea levels are rising and polar ice caps are at a minimum.

We know what causing the climate emergency - it's burning fossil fuels.

We need to stop.

Simple.