Entries by Carrie Cort

Easter Wild Green Play Session

Date: Friday 11th April 1.30pm until about 4pm Venue: Pear Tree Farm, West Chiltington Lane, Coneyhurst, Near Billingshurst, RH14 9DP – home of Natural Nurture Children’s nursery. Sussex Green Living are running an Easter Wild Green Play session thanks to Pear Tree Farm who are kindly allowing us to run wild on their beautiful farm.

Bottle Top Madness Event

On Saturday 5th April 9.30am – 12 noon there are certainly going to be thousands of plastic bottle tops at the Quaker Meeting House in Horsham, as volunteers gather to do their bit for the environment.  As part of the West Sussex Climate Change Board, Don’t Waste Your Week, Sussex Green Living are running a fun […]

The Family Festival for 2014!

Elderflower Fields Festival 23rd – 26th May 2014 With a wet winter behind us and the arrival of the spring, now is the time to get this great event in your diary. Elderflower Fields Festival is an idyllic way to spend the weekend with the entire family.  Super Early Bird tickets are all sold out although […]

Fracking in Wisborough Green

Letter from Greenpeace….. Will they ever stop? The South Downs National Park – a designated area of outstanding natural beauty – is now the target of frackers. In December, I told you Celtique Energie had applied to drill for gas and oil in Wisborough Green, West Sussex.

Importance of play

I have just read a really interesting article stressing the importance of play for children, where the author Dr Peter Gray compares human children to Carnivores and herbivores!  He says “There is a desperate need to give childhood back to children if we want our offspring to have happy productive and moral lives. We must allow more time […]

Happy New Year!

To all the Sussex Green Living followers, we wish you a happy New Years Eve.  When making your New Years resolutions please make at least one green!  Tomorrow we will post a list of suggestions for you to consider, print off and impliment when you are sobber! Have a safe and fun evening……. With love […]

Sussex getting greener!

Horsham Quakers and the William Penn Primary School unite Sussex Green Living with the help of Horsham Quakers and local residents launched a third recycling collection point in Horsham, last Saturday (7th Dec) at their monthly Green Coffee Morning and Mini Market.  This scheme will enable the people of Horsham to divert specific landfill waste […]

Winner of Campaigner of the Year from Sussex!

26th November 2013…We are very proud to announce that West Sussex born and breed environmentalist Nicola Peel has just been just won the PEA (Peoples Environment Award) for Campaigner of the Year 2013. The PEA Awards recognise people and companies from across Britain who are making a difference to the green agenda.

Biscuit wrapper recyclers

Congratulations! Together with the top 20 collectors on the McVitie’s Biscuit Wrapper Roundup, the William Penn Primary School with the help of Sussex Green Living and other competitors have saved over 47,000 Biscuit Wrappers from landfill! 

Going Green Family Style

Going green is something we all should do, not just us as individuals, but as whole families. We’re not talking Saint Patrick’s Day or yard beautification. We’re talking about energy conservation, renewable energy, recycling and sustainable living. Going green as a family is not only good for the environment, but it can also end up […]

Biscuit wrapper recycling competition

Sussex Green Living is competing in the UK wide Biscuit Wrapper Recycling competition, the beneficiary being the William Penn Primary School in Coolham.  This competition is to see who can save the most used sweet biscuit wrappers (and brand) from landfill.  At the time of writing this blog we were 18th in the UK.  With […]

We won the Business Matters Going Green Award!

  Press Release…..Take One Productions (UK) Ltd‘s CSR initiative Sussex Green Living won the GOING GREEN AWARD for the second year running.  Petro our mascot frog was excited to win the award he says “Its a great way to spread the green word that we all need to live greener, leaner and more sustainably”. Many […]

What is an Arboricultural Survey?

If you’ve tried searching for ‘what is an arboricultural survey’ before the release of this article then you’ll have noticed there is quite literally nothing on the internet about it. Despite there being lots of environmental organisations that advertise their abilities to perform arboricultural surveys around the UK not a single one explains what one […]

Join the anti fracking Sussex anthem 1st September 2013

Belt it out @ Balcombe 2 Sunday 1st September 2013 2pm London Road, Balcombe, RH17 6JH Something interesting is happening at Balcombe. All sorts of people who have never been involved in protest are coming together, supporting and connecting with each other. In the process of coming together they seem to be waking up to […]

The search engine which plants trees!

If you have not heard of this search engine then give it a go http://www.ecosia.org/.  They are donating 80% of their ad revenue (currently to The Nature Conservancy’s “Plant a Billion Trees” campaign) and being 100% carbon neutral this is a venture which is surely well worth supporting. “By making Ecosia your chosen search engine […]

Importance of social awareness for children

Parenting comes with a wide array of responsibilities, not least of which is teaching kids the importance of social awareness and giving back to the community. Volunteering and actively working to help others not only helps to make a difference in your community and the world beyond it, but also helps to instil a sense […]

Fracking in Sussex

We received this email from Greenpeace tonight.  Read this page and then follow the link below, their online template letter is a very easy way to express your disapproval at the increased fracking activity in Sussex, it takes minutes. We are based near Billingshurst, currently our home is surrounded by test drilling in Balcombe, Broadford […]