Welcome to the West Berkshire Green Exchange
Welcome to the West Berkshire Green Exchange Website. The Green Exchange meets quarterly to allow West Berkshire's green and sustainability groups to network and share information. Workshops are also held and cover a range of topics that will help your community meet its sustainability needs.
Please feel free to join and send us information about what you or your group is doing. There is no charge for membership. We have funding available, thanks to Greenham Common Trust, for new and existing Greening Campaigns, as well as sustainable projects of other groups. Please contact us if you are interested.
Please feel free to join and send us information about what you or your group is doing. There is no charge for membership. We have funding available, thanks to Greenham Common Trust, for new and existing Greening Campaigns, as well as sustainable projects of other groups. Please contact us if you are interested.
A talk by Brian Hoskins of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London and Reading University
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We were privileged to have Sir Brian to talk to a group recently on the urgent topic of climate change. You will find his presentation on the left.
Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time. It is now more certain than ever, based on many lines of evidence, that humans are changing Earth’s climate. Some of the key evidence is at royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes the Royal Society-US National Academy of Science Report on Climate Change. | ||||
Ecotricity leads a campaign for green gas
Recently Ecotricity launched a new report, which shows that Britain can get almost all of its gas from a very simple source – grass.
The benefits to our country of making our gas this way are pretty astounding, so we’re calling on the government to rethink where Britain gets its gas.
Quite incredibly, we’ve found there is enough suitable land to produce enough green gas each year to power almost all of the homes in Britain (97%).
And we can do that without affecting food production – in fact, we would be boosting it (via crop breaking), and at the same time we would create new wildlife habitats on an unprecedented scale.
Not to mention the £7.5billion boost to the economy and 150k new jobs in a new and sustainable industry - and making fracking a redundant concept.
Our report shows that we now have a more than viable alternative to fracking, which people have been fighting tooth and nail up and down the country to prevent.
It’s not too late, because fracking hasn’t started yet. But we need a proper review of where Britain gets its gas from – we can either frack the countryside or we can grow the grass. It’s that simple.
We’ve recently got consent for our first Green Gas Mill. All we need now is the government to get behind this simple, abundant and benign energy source.
You can keep up to date with our plans on Facebook and Twitter – check it out and join in by all means. There’s lots more info on our website about what we’re doing, including the full report and detail on how our Green Gas Mills will work.
The benefits to our country of making our gas this way are pretty astounding, so we’re calling on the government to rethink where Britain gets its gas.
Quite incredibly, we’ve found there is enough suitable land to produce enough green gas each year to power almost all of the homes in Britain (97%).
And we can do that without affecting food production – in fact, we would be boosting it (via crop breaking), and at the same time we would create new wildlife habitats on an unprecedented scale.
Not to mention the £7.5billion boost to the economy and 150k new jobs in a new and sustainable industry - and making fracking a redundant concept.
Our report shows that we now have a more than viable alternative to fracking, which people have been fighting tooth and nail up and down the country to prevent.
It’s not too late, because fracking hasn’t started yet. But we need a proper review of where Britain gets its gas from – we can either frack the countryside or we can grow the grass. It’s that simple.
We’ve recently got consent for our first Green Gas Mill. All we need now is the government to get behind this simple, abundant and benign energy source.
You can keep up to date with our plans on Facebook and Twitter – check it out and join in by all means. There’s lots more info on our website about what we’re doing, including the full report and detail on how our Green Gas Mills will work.
Brian Cox led a discussion on Climate Change in Reading
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Brian Cox recently led a Climate Change discussion with
Prof. Sir Brian Hoskins. The event was a great success. The Great Hall of the University of Reading was full to bursting. Brian Cox was compère with a panel composed of two climate scientists from Reading, an ecologist from UCL and a journalist from the Economist. The questions covered a wide range of topics and made for a an interesting discussion of climate change, its likely impacts, and what can be done about it from governments down to individuals. A video of the event is on YouTube, https://youtu.be/xj9bYALLYJ4 |
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