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...
As part of work to resurface Commercial Road following the removal of the old Weymouth Branch Line tracks, new lining has been installed.
Two on-road cycle lanes, one on each side of the road, have been introduced to encourage and help facilitate cycling where traffic volume and speeds are relatively...
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...
Weymouth Councillor Louie O’Leary has proposed a motion asking Dorset Council to condemn Extinction Rebellion for laying a wreath at the Cenotaph in London on Remembrance Day, and standing with a banner which raised the alarm about the links between climate change and global conflicts.
Ex-serviceman Robert Cheeseman from Weymouth says, “Donald Bell, is a 64 year old environmental campaigner and a British Army...
"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.
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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...
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...
