press_release Archives | Sussex Green Living https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/tag/press_release/ Sussex people inspiring a climate for change Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:28:03 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Festive Fun that doesn’t cost the Earth https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/festive-fun-that-doesnt-cost-the-earth/ Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:00:01 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=33539 Festive Fun that doesn’t cost the Earth. Christmas doesn’t have to be a costly burden, with a little effort and imagination we can have a waste free festive season, save money and protect the planet for future generations. If it’s all about the tree Do you already have a ‘fake-tree’ ? It could be more […]

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Dogs and Wolves https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/dogs-help-restore-nature-in-lewes-acting-like-wolves-for-wildflower-growth/ Thu, 14 Nov 2024 09:00:12 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=32943 Dogs and Wolves: Saving nature in Lewes where dogs are behaving like wolves!  In Lewes, dogs are on a mission to help the environment, and they’re doing it by acting like wolves! A long time ago, before wolves disappeared from the UK in the 1760s, they travelled across large areas every night, sometimes covering over […]

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How Affordable are Affordable Homes? https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/how-affordable-are-affordable-homes-can-local-housing-plans-truly-meet-community-needs/ Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:38:51 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=32938 How Affordable are Affordable Homes? We’ve heard a lot recently about housebuilding. Horsham District Council’s new Local Plan is now with the Government appointed inspector. Meanwhile, central government is promising to double the number of new homes built each year, which could potentially mean a lot more building in our District HDC has, quite sensibly, […]

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Preparing for Spring: Flowering Food for our Hungry Pollinators! https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/preparing-for-spring-flowering-food-for-our-hungry-pollinators/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 09:25:28 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=32864 Preparing for Spring: Flowering Food for our Hungry Pollinators!  As we head towards autumn, it’s time to think about spring planting and preparing our outside spaces and Pollination Education Stations (PES) for the coming year to give our pollinators the best chance of survival during the winter and provide them with rich, nutritious food sources […]

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Enjoying Ducks and Protecting Ponds https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/enjoying-ducks-and-protecting-ponds/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 08:00:54 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=32584 Enjoying ducks and protecting ponds: Horsham Town has two new family-friendly Wildways Trails thanks to Horsham Green Spaces, and these are a wonderful way to explore nature, with both routes beginning and ending at picturesque ponds. Ponds are often home to ducks, and we are fortunate to have a newly restored, wildlife-friendly pond in Horsham […]

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Worthing’s New Heat Network brings in the Community https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/worthings-new-heat-network-brings-in-the-community/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:50:34 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=32579 The post Worthing’s New Heat Network brings in the Community appeared first on Sussex Green Living.

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Partnering for a Greener Future https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/partnering-for-a-greener-future-2/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 09:21:09 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=32483 The post Partnering for a Greener Future appeared first on Sussex Green Living.

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Country Ways https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/country-ways/ Thu, 22 Aug 2024 08:00:23 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=32374 Country Ways: Val volunteers with Transition Horsham which runs the community allotment. She has decades of experience, as since childhood, she worked alongside her father on his allotment. When she married, she and her husband grew everything: cabbages, turnips,
swedes, cauliflower, runner beans, potatoes, radishes, gherkins, onions…and nothing was wasted. Even the swede and turnip leaf […]

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Animal Friends https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/animal-friends/ Thu, 08 Aug 2024 08:00:57 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=31888 Animal Friends: On Monday this week, I attended a wonderful open-air theatre performance in a hornbeam circle in a private woodland.
  The tree circle to create the ‘stage’ had been planted many years previously and the play wasn’t unique only in its setting- it had been crafted by the young children who performed it. They […]

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Horsham’s Future: Sustainable Developments https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/31797-2-horshams-future-sustainable-developments/ Thu, 01 Aug 2024 08:00:57 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=31797 Horsham’s Future: Sustainable Developments.  Although we have had a change of government and Horsham has a Liberal-Democrat MP instead of a Conservative representative, the pressure to build new houses in our local area is not going to change. We know there are a number of construction companies either erecting new homes or planning to do […]

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Rainbows and Hope https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/31802-2rainbows-and-hope/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:10:18 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=31802 Rainbows and Hope.  Rainbows have always been a symbol of hope, and I took this photograph at the weekend, just after my friend had said, “It’s impossible to take a good photograph of a rainbow.” We now have a new MP for Horsham, and Sussex Green Living is pleased to have an MP representing Horsham […]

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Without Nature We Are Nothing https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/without-nature-we-are-nothing/ Tue, 02 Jul 2024 10:47:12 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=31666 Without nature we are nothing. With that in mind, Sussex Green Living, Horsham Eco Churches and their supporters joined more than 60,000 people, representing 350 environmental groups on the Restore Nature Now march (led by Chris Packham) from Park Lane to Parliament Square in London on June 22.  It was a well organised family event, […]

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Vote Wisely for the Planet https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/learn-how-to-vote-wisely-for-the-planet/ Wed, 22 May 2024 15:06:15 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=30484 Vote Wisely for the Planet.  Sussex Green Living recently hosted the launch of Horsham MP Watch at the Sussex Green Hub. Pat Smith from Dorking introduced MP Watch to explain the nationwide service it provides for all residents. The idea is that amongst all the spin, information, misinformation, and media stories, the conflicting reports can […]

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Confessions of a Reformed Lawn Addict https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/confessions-of-a-reformed-lawn-addict/ Wed, 01 May 2024 08:00:49 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=30202 Confessions of a reformed Lawn Addict.  Oh, the swelling ambition with which I greeted my first lawn! (it was tiny). How I would nurture it!  Feed it. Weed it, ruthlessly. Mow it close, until its stripes looked like the No 1 Court at Wimbledon. Reality was very different. Inconvenient patches of muddy brown forever reappeared, […]

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A Small Island https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/a-small-island/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:46:33 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=30090 A Small Island.  I’m currently reading one of Bill Bryson’s funny books and he beautifully describes a little-known area near Heathrow airport which has somehow escaped development. The Staines Moor pocket of land has been untouched for over a thousand years and is the only green space for miles that Staines residents can enjoy. Heathrow […]

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Horsham Cloth Nappy Library: Changing Nappies Changing Lives https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/horsham-cloth-nappy-library-changing-nappies-changing-lives/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:00:11 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=29606 Horsham Cloth Nappy Library: Changing Nappies Changing Lives We’re Lucy and Sarah, local mums who loved cloth nappies for our babies so much that we’re now running the Horsham Cloth Nappy Library to support other families! As one of our favourite nappy retailers says, “You can change the world, – one nappy change at a […]

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Sussex Green Living’s new Pollination Education Station initiative https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/sussex-green-livings-new-pollination-education-station-initiative/ Mon, 26 Feb 2024 13:51:30 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=29302 Sussex Green Living’s new Pollination Education Station initiative!  We are proud to announce the launch of our latest initiative, the Pollination Education Station and we are now calling on businesses, pubs, councils, schools, groups, and individuals across West Sussex to get involved. The Pollination Education Station initiative is a response to the urgent need to […]

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Community Composting Revolution https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/community-composting-revolution/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 07:00:26 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=28629 Community Composting Revolution Nicky Scott, otherwise known as Mr Compost, is based in Devon and for many years has been the driving force in Community Composting across the county. This is his story. When I started a very small community composting project on our allotments in Chagford, on Dartmoor, I had no idea how it […]

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Transition Horsham’s Annual Seed Swap https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/transition-horshams-annual-seed-swap/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 07:00:12 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=28622 Transition Horsham’s Annual Seed Swap  It’s spring!  Well, nearly …we have some snowdrops out and it’s just glorious to see them.  It is at least the promise that spring is on the way, and it’s not just us humans who appreciate the flowers-the insects also appreciate the life-giving nectar in these early blossoms. If you’re […]

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Keep Lancing Lovely – Ten Years Cleaning Sussex Beaches https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/keep-lancing-lovely-ten-years-cleaning-sussex-beaches/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 15:17:23 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=28691 Keep Lancing Lovely - Ten Years Cleaning Sussex Beaches. Down here on the coast, we’re lucky to have organisations like Keep Lancing Lovely: a tireless network of volunteers who clear the beaches of all sorts of mess and rubbish, enjoying themselves and keeping fit while they do it, as we found on the sunny Tuesday morning we spent with Wendy Peters, Graham, Rosina and Angela, the KLL team who were combing the shingles of Lancing beach for wood, glass, cigarette butts, vapes and  plastic litter of all sizes.

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Give Dry A Try in 2024 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/give-dry-a-try-in-2024/ Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:50:55 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=28635 Give Dry a Try in 2024 We started our ‘Give Dry a Try’ campaign in January – but not for the reason you might be thinking – though that’s an excellent idea as well! From January 27th, the Sussex Green Hub our once a month event is encouraging all to ‘Give Dry a Try ‘ […]

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Solutions for Sustainable Heating: Navigating Heat Pumps https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/solutions-for-sustainable-heating-navigating-heat-pumps/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:26:44 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=28509 Solutions for Sustainable Heating: Navigating Heat Pumps -With too much heat in the summer and not enough in the winter, Sussex Green Living is delighted to showcase Option Energy Solutions who we met at the Amberley Eco-Day last Summer. They won a Highly Commended National award in June 2023 for their Domestic Air Source Heat […]

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Sunday Musings – It’s Time to Fix the Bugs https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/sunday-musings-fixing-bugs/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:59:57 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=28503 Sunday Musings – It’s Time to Fix the Bugs.  Last Summer, I went to Pulborough to join ‘Our Amazing Planet’, a service for children at St. Mary’s Parish Church, which I found very moving, when three small children in a beautiful calm space shyly declared their gratitude for nature. I moved on from there to […]

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Shipley Community Hub: At the Heart of a Village https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/shipley-community-hub-at-the-heart-of-a-village/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:28:32 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=28495 Shipley Community Hub: At the Heart of a Village.  A group that started off due to a request for a local Bridge Club has grown into a real community centre!  Thanks to a single person,making one small suggestion, the wonderful Shipley Community Hub now sits at the heart of the village. It offers not only somewhere for […]

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Rampion Wind Farm Providing Green Energy Since 2018 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/rampion-wind-farm-providing-green-energy-since-2018/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 10:28:05 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=27701 Recently, as a milestone birthday treat, I took a boat trip out to the Rampion Wind Farm which lies 13 kilometres from the shoreline on the South Coast and covers a total area of 72sq. kilometres. This impressive feat of engineering has been providing green energy since 2018 to around 350,000 homes – around half […]

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From the Path to the Shop: Natural Community Food Production https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/from-the-path-to-the-shop-natural-community-food-production/ Tue, 01 Aug 2023 16:12:45 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=27648 From the Path to the Shop: Natural community food production.  With all the worry about climate change and food production, it feels important to get to know one another to develop good practices for improving soil fertility and the production of local organic food. When working on my recent book, ‘Growing Together, Horsham’s Town Allotments’, […]

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Embracing the Green Circular Economy: A Step Towards Sustainable Prosperity https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/embracing-a-circular-economy-towards-sustainable-prosperity/ Tue, 27 Jun 2023 09:52:47 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=27453 community renewable energy symbol

Embracing the Green Circular Economy: A Step Towards Sustainable Prosperity.  As we begin to understand the challenges of the future, it becomes increasingly evident that the old story of using consumers (us!) to fuel economic growth by buying stuff they don’t need is of course incompatible with the limitations of living on a small island with finite resources.

Amidst multiple challenges, inspiring local projects are emerging that offer sustainable paths forward. One such project is Community Energy Horsham, which embodies the principles of the green circular economy and paves the way for a more prosperous and resilient future.

Community Energy Horsham is a community-funded renewable energy project which aims to harness the power of solar energy, reducing the community's carbon footprint and promoting clean, sustainable energy generation. By encouraging local investment and involvement, Community Energy Horsham empowers residents, strengthens community ties and provides opportunities for individuals to participate actively in the transition to a greener economy.

This initiative aligns perfectly with the principles of Kate Raworth’s ‘Doughnut Economy which emphasizes the importance of renewable energy, and using only what we need. By generating clean energy locally, Community Energy Horsham reduces reliance on fossil fuels and contributes to a healthier environment for all.

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How Our Pets Are Shaping Wild Bird Communities https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/how-our-pets-are-shaping-wild-bird-communities/ Thu, 08 Jun 2023 06:00:57 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=27312 Our pets bring immense joy and companionship into our lives, but have you ever wondered about their impact on the natural world? As it turns out, our furry friends can have unexpected consequences on the delicate balance of nature. From ground-nesting birds to fledglings in trees, our pets play a significant role in shaping the […]

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Beginnings and Endings https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/beginnings-and-endings/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 06:00:44 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=27306 It has been a great joy being part of the Sussex Green Living community over the years and it has led me into many unusual situations!  For example, last week I found myself decorating a cardboard coffin with butterflies and meadows, to be used as a funeral director’s window display in Horsham during Great Big […]

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Change is in the Air https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/change-is-in-the-air/ Thu, 25 May 2023 12:01:21 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=27317 The UK’s flying insects have declined by 60% in 20 years. The decline in insects affects all the major groups, not just flying and in the next few decades, as many as 40% of the world’s species could become extinct, including bees, ants and butterflies. Clive Cobie asks the question, ‘”is change in the air?” […]

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