Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole’s Green councillors call for the Bournemouth Air Show to be replaced in the coming years, as one measure to address the climate emergency and to centre local tourism around the needs of residents across the conurbation.
The comments come as BCP Council announce the cancellation of the...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is delighted to announce the return of the UK’s biggest annual nature challenge, 30 Days Wild, which asks the public to do one ‘wild’ activity each day for the 30 days in June.
Last year 400,000 people took part in The Wildlife Trust’s initiative across the...
Nicotine patches are to be tested on coronavirus patients and healthcare workers treating infected people after initial studies suggested smokers were less likely to catch the disease.
Researchers in France say early data indicates those who smoke make up a disproportionately small number of people in hospital with COVID-19.
A study at...
With household recycling centres currently closed and new Garden Waste subscriptions temporarily suspended, why not start home composting your garden waste?
it's easy to get started!it's good for your garden - digging compost into your soil improves on its texture and nutritional quality, which in turn produces healthier plantsit's good for the...
As we approach the anniversary of Dorset Council declaring a climate and ecological emergency on 16 May 2019, Extinction Rebellion Dorset have written to them asking where their promised strategy and action plan are.
The letter was sent on 15 April 2020 to Cllr Ray Bryan, who chairs their Climate...
A plastic free revolution is emerging in Bournemouth with scores of local businesses signing up.
SOBO Wastebusters, of Southbourne, came up with the plastic free scheme and ever since over thirty business have shown interest.
Maria, co-founder of SOBO, said they would like to see as many people as possible sign up. She said: “We are trying...
Sometimes it takes a threat to our own neighbourhood, our own county or country, before we wake up to what is happening across the world. It will take food shortages before we accept that industrial farming is gradually killing the soil that all life, bar marine life, depends on. ...
Dorset Council’s Executive Advisory Panel for Climate Change recently hosted two Inquiry Day sessions where organisations and members of the public were invited to present their ideas for how the Council can help tackle climate change.
Back in December 2019, the Council launched its Call for Ideas, inviting people to submit...
A joint bid by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (BCP Council) and Dorset Council, has been awarded £79 million by the Department for Transport’s Transforming Cities Fund (TCF).
The funding gives the green light for the largest sustainable travel programme of change to transport infrastructure ever seen in the area, helping...
Boris Johnson’s announcement for a new 2035 target to end the sales of new diesel and petrol vehicles, shows that the decision to approve ExxonMobil’s £800m Fawley Refinery Expansion was ill-conceived.
This month, Boris Johnson announced that 2035 would be the revised cut-off for the sale of new petrol and...
