For an overview of practical ways to save you money and reduce your carbon footprint

have a look at this page on Wiltshire Council's website - lots of tips and useful information for (i) your home (ii) when travelling and (iii) your garden.

Key Actions to Help Us & NAture

Lobby politicians to prioritise action on the climate and biodiversity crisis

 

Contact our MP

- lots of us doing this can have a big impact

 

MPs want to know what we care about - their job is to represent us in Parliament.  We can ask them to help stop the loss of wildlife, speak up for nature, prioritise climate issues and champion ambitious measures (including strong environment laws) to create a better, nature-friendly world.

 

For more details and advice for writing to, or meeting with, your MP see The Wildlife Trust.

 

* Refuse * Reduce * Reuse * Repurpose!

We are using the equivalent of 1.6 Earths to maintain our current way of life and ecosystems cannot keep up with our demands

(Becoming Generation Restoration, UNEP)

Think

Do you need it?

Can you make do with less?

Can you reuse rather than buy another?

Can you use it for something else?

Garden for Wildlife

 

Make space for nature

and help turn the UK’s 24 million gardens into a life-line network of nature reserves

 

Wildlife-friendly gardening

 

 

Pollinator friendly lawns

 

Food and homes for bumblebees

 

Gardening for butterflies and moths

 

Gardening for bugs - saving the small things that run the planet

 

Work with nature: ditch the pesticides and herbicides - practical tips for chemical-free gardening

 

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/chemicals-free-organic-gardening

 

https://issuu.com/pan-uk/docs/a_guide_to_gardening_without_pestic?e=28041656/56337362

 

 

Check how much they

may be contributing and

consider switching.

 

Since 2015 banks have pumped over £3.8 trillion into supporting the fossil fuel industry.

 

https://www.switchit.green

http://www.yourethicalmoney.org

 

Food Waste

 

If food waste were a country, it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases

 

Just stopping binning bread alone could be as effective as planting 5.3 million trees!

 

In the UK, 70% of food waste occurs in our homes - every year we throw away 4.5 million tonnes of food worth £3.5 billion.

 

Reduce Your Food Waste

Info, practical tips & examples from BBC Good Food

 

Try Out Best Food Saving Recipies

Top Recipies from LOVE FOOD, HATE WASTE

 

Explore A-Z of Foods

Top info and tips for buying, storing, etc.

from LOVE FOOD, HATE WASTE

Help make your street hedgehog-friendly

 

In 2020, hedgehogs were put on the IUCN Red List as vulnerable to extinction in Great Britain. Decline continues in rural areas.

https://www.hedgehogstreet.org/help-hedgehogs/C

 

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Protect our brooks

 

Many cosmetics,

Man cosmetics, soaps, washing-up liquids and cleaning products can be harmful to wildlife with long-lasting effects. Look out for phosphate listed on the side of packaging. Sometimes it is called sodium Tripolyphosphate (STPP) instead. Look for products with less than 5% of these substances.

On average a person in the UK uses 150 litres of water a day equating to almost two full bathtubs of water per person per day, residents of Copenhagen use less than 110, a saving of 14,600 litres a year.

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/watch-what-you-wash-away

5 simple changes to make in day-to-day life which will massively benefit our local rivers and the wildlife that depends on them!

 

https://bristolavonriverstrust.org/everyday-action/

 

 

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