XR East Herts

08/06/2026

06/06/2026

*💚 Come along to our next Extinction Rebellion & Green Friends General Meeting in Hitchin 19.00-21.00 on Wednesday 10th June. Everyone welcome 💚*
Please bring cake, biscuits and drinks to share (only if you can, vegan if possible) 🍰
At this meeting we will be looking at three very important questions: *What is your view on the* *goals/purpose of this XR group?*
*Where does this group sit within the ecology of other local green groups?*
*What actions feel right for this group at this time?*

Address: Ransom’s Pavillion, Triangle Community Garden, Alexandra Road, Hitchin
The postcode for the Pavilion is SG5 1RB. If you are headed for the small carpark on Nightingale Road (next to the Esso garage) please use the postcode SG5 1RQ.
Accessibility: meeting room is on the ground floor. Accessible toilet.
Directions: https://trianglegarden.org/directions/
Lift shares: let’s organise lift shares between us to bring as few cars as possible.

How to get to the site The Triangle Garden is in the northeast corner of Ransom’s Recreation Ground, between Grove Road and Nightingale Road, in the market town of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, and is open day and night throughout the year. It is less than a five minute walk from Hitchin Rail Station an...

25/05/2026

From NEB team:
We launched an official UK parliamentary petition calling for a UK-wide public briefing from independent experts on the risks posed by climate change and nature loss - and the opportunities if we respond at scale and with urgency.

Our aim is to reach 100,000 signatures to secure a Parliamentary debate, generate media attention, and significantly raise the profile of the National Emergency Briefing in Parliament.

If you support this idea, please could you sign - and, crucially, share it with friends, family or colleagues who might be interested?

Sign the government petition
Petition link: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767687

The public deserves clear, trusted information about the risks we face - from extreme weather and food insecurity to economic disruption and national security threats - and about what we can do together in response.

The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing on the scale of these risks. Government should hold an emergency briefing from leading experts.

17/05/2026

We have a critical opportunity to deliver legislation that restores nature as a national security priority and that’s why we need everyone to write to their MP to back the new Nature + National Security Bill. By supporting the Nature + National Security Bill you can secure your future.
To give us the best chance of success, we need to act before 21 May. Please act and share.
https://www.zerohour.uk/write
Here's a recording of the webinar; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbYLezWIqf0

Zero Hour campaigns for the action the science demands to avert climate and nature breakdown. We are dedicated to locking the science into law and ensuring a fair transition for all communities. We mobilise urgent, collective action by empowering citizens and pressuring policymakers to enact systemi...

07/05/2026

💚💚 You are very welcome to join us at our next general meeting. We will discuss ideas for local actions, actions that are happening at a national level and update you on regional info. Bring your ideas, share your news and spend an evening among like-minded people. See you there.
XR North & East Hertfordshire General Meeting
Wednesday May 13th, 2026 19:00-20.30
Join Zoom Meeting: https://xrb.link/f6qWH3y8lIe
Meeting ID: 897 3313 5934
Local XR meetings take place on the second Wednesday of each month. SAVE THE DATE for our June 10th meeting which will be in-person at the Triangle Garden, Hitchin 💚💚

01/05/2026

What these extraordinary numbers make clear is that Reform is less a political party and more a very highly paid public-facing lobby group for oil and gas interests.
This needs to be shared as widely as possible.

Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea oil and gas drilling ahead of UK-wide elections in May on the ill-founded claim that it will cut en...

05/04/2026

💚💚 You are very welcome to join us at our next general meeting. We will discuss plans for local actions, actions that are happening at a national level and update you on regional info. Bring your ideas, share your news and spend an evening among like-minded people.
XR North & East Hertfordshire General Meeting
Wednesday April 8th, 2026 19:00-20.30
Join Zoom Meeting: https://xrb.link/f6qWH3y8lIe
Meeting ID: 897 3313 5934
Local XR meetings take place on the second Wednesday of each month. See you there 💚💚

27/03/2026

People's Emergency Briefing

This 45 minute film is being launched nationally on the 7th April. Here's short one minute trailer about the film;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaI-dHgh65Q

Free screening events will be held across the UK throughout the year. They are open to absolutely everyone aged 16 and over.
One of the first events will be in

Knebworth Village Hall, SG3 6PD
On Saturday 11th April 7pm for 7.30pm

This booking link has further details of the event; https://www.tickettailor.com/events/nationalemergencybriefing1/2118164 .

There will be a brief Plastic Free Knebworth accreditation ceremony before the film. The film will be followed by facilitated reflections with our MP Kevin Bonavia.

Please can you all encourage and cajole your non eco contacts to attend.

Coming to [your town] this April! A new film featuring Chris Packham, leading scientists, a former general and Jennifer Saunders - all being far too frank ab...

02/03/2026

Come along to our next Extinction Rebellion & Green Friends General Meeting in Stevenage 19.00-21.00 on Wednesday 11th March. Everyone welcome 💚
Please give this post a 👍 if you can make it 🙏
Bring cake, biscuits and drinks to share (only if you can, and vegan if possible) 🍰
Bring ideas and inspiration to share 💡
We will have tea and cake followed by a meeting to discuss ideas for local actions, with updates on regional and national actions.
Please come along and spend a couple of hours with like-minded friends – longstanding and new!
Address: Friends Meeting House, 21 Cutty's Lane, Stevenage SG1 1UP Note: we will meet in the garden room, not the main hall.
Accessibility: meeting room is on the ground floor. Accessible toilet.
Trains: Stevenage 12-min walk.
Buses: Stevenage Interchange 10-min walk.
Lift shares: let’s organise lift shares between us to bring as few cars as possible.
Parking: there is a car park at the meeting house.

19/02/2026

BBC Complaint - Lack of Climate & Nature Crisis Coverage

Are you happy with the BBC's coverage? If not, please submit a complaint. You can simply use the text below, edit or write your own 🙂.

By repeatedly failing to reflect the seriousness and urgency of the climate and nature crisis and inform the public, the BBC has not met the obligations of the Communications Act 2003. It has been totally disproportionate in comparison with the much less serious pandemic. This has contributed to a damaging split in the political consensus and the rise of disinformation.
BBC News has failed to report on many key events including The Big One, Restore Nature Now, the withheld Nature Security report, the released redacted Nature Security report and most notably the National Emergency Briefing.
The consequences of this failure has been reflected in some BBC programmes. For example, on the special Question Time episode exploring the challenges of growing up in the 21st century (half the audience was under 30 or gen Z) there was no mention of the Climate and Nature Crisis. There was one brief mention of Net Zero from a member of the audience, but it was dismissed because it was off topic. Also, there was a question about the 'climate catastrophe' on another episode. However, the discussion went rapidly downhill with so much disinformation, denialism and ignorance.
Similarly, on one Any Questions episode one of the questions was about Net Zero which gave rise to examples of disinformation from members of the panel. On Any Answers only one caller was selected to share her thoughts on that question at the very end of the programme. The caller was 70 year old grandmother Fiona, an environmental activist who had been arrested for her cause. She was making some excellent points, but they cut her off because they had run out of time!
There was a question on climate change on another episode. Fortunately, Caroline Lucas was on the panel and was able to counter all the usual disinformation, but she was cut short before she could go into details of the withheld Nature Security report. On Any Answers there wasn’t time for even one caller to discuss the topic.
The BBC must do more. (1996 characters – appears to be the maximum allowed)
Full details including the BBC Complaint link can be found here;
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dc6iMvjyVbEUacVYlHI1p9AVvakfznSYFtLBXrZomzM/edit

It would be good if everyone in the environmental community submitted a complaint. It may help with the push for a public National Emergency Briefing 🤔 - we won't know unless we try 😏
Please share widely 🙏