BCP Council, Hubbub and McDonald’s partner on ground-breaking campaignLocal businesses and community groups urged to join forces as lockdown eases
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole will be the focus of a ground-breaking pilot schemethis summer which will see drone-based technology used to tackle the issue of litter.
BCP Council is partnering with the environmental charity Hubbub and...
I love her. She personifies how young people can kick out the corporate stooges and create an eden that is both sustainable and something to be proud of.
The bully Trump thought himself clever with this
but as he flies to his Florida obscurity Greta hits back and how:
The key is...
Today I attended the City of London Magistrates Court.
I pleaded guilty to sitting in the road in October 2019. I read out my statement and was told I could leave. Then a moment later an usher came out and asked me to go back into the courtroom. The...
Construction of the first sustainable travel route funded through BCP Council and Dorset Council’s multi-million pound Transforming Travel – Transforming Cities Fund programme gets underway on 18 January.
The new 2.3km cycle path and walking improvements in Wimborne and Colehill will form the first part of a green travel route...
A call for public feedback on Transforming Travel in Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole (BCP) closes this Friday, 18th December.
BCP Council has been allocated £100m of Government funding from the Transforming Cities Fund for major upgrades to sustainable local transport options (cycling, walking, and buses) on key arterial routes. The Transforming Travel programme funding is...
Badger culling is to be banned on BCP Council land, following a vote by councillors on Tuesday in favour of a motion proposed by Councillor Vikki Slade and seconded by Green Councillor Chris Rigby.
The vote also secures access for local wildlife professionals for badger vaccination, and joint biosecurity working against...
An innovative hub-facility dedicated to achieving a step-change in the reduction of waste and elimination of single use packaging along Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole’s beautiful seafront has been given the go-ahead.
The Environmental Innovation Hub will highlight the impact of plastic packaging and waste on our seafront. With around 2,000 tons of waste...
"Our planet is broken," the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has warned.
Humanity is waging what he describes as a "suicidal" war on the natural world.
"Nature always strikes back, and is doing so with gathering force and fury," he told a BBC special event on the environment.
Is...
East Dorset Friends of the Earth today published the results of their latest survey of plastic packaging levels in local supermarkets: Plastics – how green is your supermarket.1This shows that approximately 85% of products are still wrapped in plastic – despite supermarket’scommitments to reduce “problematic and unnecessary single-use plastic”.2 According to surveys by the Local Government Association and Which?3 most plastic wastes are not...
Volunteers from Bournemouth and Poole Greenpeace visited ten Tesco stores across the conurbation to reimagine a scene from Greenpeace’s new animation, Monster , in which a jaguar turns up in a boy’s kitchen to tell him about the destruction of his forest home for industrial meat production. Greenpeace volunteers took photos...
