We are having 2 Young People's Assemblies next week, exclusively for people aged 16-25 years. We will focus discussions on the future and what can must / can change to make it better.
join the Zoom meeting via this link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85399694343
Dorset Peoples Assemblies on Climate Emergency
Dorset Council declared a climate...
New Conservative administration drop key Council pledge from Climate and Ecological Emergency declarationThey misrepresent former Unity Alliance decisions to justify shelving plans for broader public participation
At the full Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole (BCP) Council meeting on Tuesday 24 November, portfolio holder for ‘Transport and Sustainability’ Councillor Mike Greene confirmed the new...
Researchers from Bournemouth University have recently put forward solutions for environmental breakdown.
Professor Rick Stafford and his team studied past scientific proposals and came up with a combination of what is called the ‘New Green Deal’ and ‘Nature-Based Solutions’ as a way of solving the problem.
It is Hoped, the research will influence ‘think tanks’ and finally find its way...
Erich Fromm, the renowned German-Jewish social psychologist who was forced to flee his homeland in the early 1930s as the Nazis came to power, offered a disturbing insight later in life on the relationship between society and the individual.
In the mid-1950s, his book The Sane Society suggested that insanity referred not...
The government’s newly outlined approach to green finance has already come under criticism for relying too heavily on market-based approaches to tackling the climate crisis. A joint-letter to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, co-ordinated by the New Economics Foundation and Positive Money, has...
A Dorset-based organic recycling specialist has won a multi-million-pound waste handling contract with Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (BCP).
The exclusive four-year deal, with an option to extend to up to ten years, tasks Eco Sustainable Solutions with processing all the organic wastes generated in the BCP region.
The annual amounts...
Preparation work for a 2.3km cycleway in Wimborne and Colehill has commenced marking the start of the first sustainable infrastructure scheme to be built in south east Dorset through Transforming Travel’s £100m+ Transforming Cities Fund1.
BCP Council and Dorset Council were one of 12 city regions2 in England to secure a...
Temporary emergency active travel measures introduced over the summer are being reviewed as part of a longer-term approach to improve travel across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
Councillor Mike Greene, Portfolio Holder responsible for transport, BCP Council, said; “There is no doubt that congestion is the biggest barrier to Bournemouth, Christchurch...
In a year when more people than ever have been stepping outside to enjoy local parks and open spaces, BCP Council has been awarded 23 Green Flags, highlighting the hard work that is put into delivering outstanding parks and open spaces for all.
The Green Flag Award scheme, managed by...
It’s the hope I can’t stand. Every few years, governments gather to make solemn promises about the action they will take to defend the living world, then break them before the ink is dry. Today, at the virtual UN summit on biodiversity, they will move themselves to tears with the thought...
