Green Shoots

Keeping hold of hope and compassion in the face of all this bad news on climate and ecology is difficult. And too much hope may not be appropriate or helpful. But Spring needs celebrating, even as it gets quieter, and we need to feel and express gratitude for the astonishing beauty and richness of our environment, especially here in Stanton St Gabriel, even as it diminishes.

With that in mind, here are some stories of what's being done - both locally and globally. Please send in your own...

Locally

Hogchester Farm - a 75-acre farm charity restoring biodiversity and providing ways for people to enjoy, get close, and be inspired by nature. Read more

Prime Coppice - a 52-acre working woodland in Whitchurch Canonicorum "restoring nature ~ restoring people".

Charlie Kennerley's organic Kitchen Garden Charmouth - a market garden to feed the neighbourhood.

Land Workers' Alliance - based in Wootton Fitzpaine, Jyoti Fernandes is Chairperson & Campaigns Coordinator of the Alliance, which campaigns for a food system based on 'food sovereignty', where everyone has access to healthy, regionally produced, affordable food from farmers they can trust.

Nationally and Globally

In October 2018, the European Parliament voted for a complete ban on a range of single-use plastics across the union in a bid to cut ocean pollution.

Soil Association initiatives.

According to the European Commission and others, the atmospheric abundance of controlled ozone-depleting substances (ODSs) has decreased and the recovery of stratospheric ozone has begun. The Antarctic ozone hole is recovering and, outside the polar regions, upper stratospheric ozone has increased by 1–3% per decade since 2000.

Turning bus stops into bee stops.

The Arup 2050 Scenarios Project

Do something

Please help us create green shoots across the parish, giving young people some hope and all of us a role in building a future for our community.

Dreaming 2030 the Danish way