The new BCP Council budget for 2020/21 has been comfortably voted through Full Council, with backing from the Unity Alliance and abstentions from the Conservatives. It contains £1.4m of new investment in BCP’s corporate priorities. This included amongst other items:
· £240k for the climate and ecological emergency
· £150k for arts and culture
· £150k for street cleaning
· £370k for regeneration.
This investment now makes up...
The reopening of Winton Library Gardens is set to take place before the end of this week.
Winton East’s Green Party Councillors Simon Bull and Chris Rigby have been campaigning for public access to the gardens, and those efforts are now being rewarded. Residents and visitors will have access to the street-level part of...
Climate targets seem sensible, but are actually impeding effective action. Let’s do something completely different.
The crisis is not imminent. The crisis is here. The recent infernos in Australia, the storms and floods in Brazil, Madagascar, Spain and the US, the economic collapse in Somalia, caused in part by a devastating cycle of droughts and floods,...
Late last month, Dorset Council’s Climate and Ecological Emergency Executive Advisory Panel convened to hear about the continued progress being made by the authority in its work to tackle climate change.
First order of business was to discuss the motions put forward by Cllr Daryl Turner and Cllr Kelvin Clayton...
6 Stages of Climate Change Denial
Brilliant takedown of climate change denial.
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The 10 facts that prove we're in a climate emergency
The first month of the New Year is almost over, but it is not too late to start a new year’s resolution for 2020. By signing up to car share not only will you be saving on average £1,000 per year, but you will be helping Dorset Council tackle...
As the International Extinction Rebellion comes to it’s climatic end in London we would like to take this opportunity to look back from the point of view of local people in Wimborne. Some of whom attended the capital from day-one, others who travelled-up for just a day or two....
South East Dorset Green Party has selected candidates for all five Parliamentary constituencies in the area, to fight the next General Election whenever it is called.
In Bournemouth East, the Green Party candidate will for a third time be Alasdair Keddie. A Bournemouth University graduate who has lived in the constituency for 26 years,...
Plants and flowers look beautiful in the great outdoors, but they're also a fantastic addition to your interior design too. If you don't have a green thumb, don't worry. There are plenty of plants that require little attention or light to thrive. We’ll help you decide where plants will...
Queen Elizabeth School, Wimborne, 12 September 5.30-9pm
There’s now no doubt the climate has changed, we are entering a period of extreme weather and uncertainty. After the hottest June ever recorded wild-fires are raging across the globe from the Amazon to the Arctic where sea-ice is also disappearing at an...
