Gemma Rickard - Save Our Shropshire

Good for Pocket – Good for Planet – Dawley

March 17, 2023March 17, 2023 Gemma Rickard

We delivered our second workshop in Dawley last night. Here’s proof – Allan showing the difference between eating meat and being a vegetarian on emissions of Greenhouse Gases. But did you know a household could save around £ 1,800 per year by adopting a vegetarian diet? Worth doing? The people (more…) Read More

Life in 2035 – Apocalypse … or Not?

March 3, 2023March 3, 2023 Gemma Rickard

See this play on July 16th at 2 pm and 4 pm. What kind of planet will we hand over to our children and grandchildren in 2035? Will it be an apocalypse as some fear, or will we have made our planet a home where it is easy for people (more…) Read More

Magic Bags

February 22, 2023February 23, 2023 Gemma Rickard

Help Avoid Food Waste Too Good to go is a great way to help avoid food waste. Their anti-food waste app lets you rescue delicious, unsold food from businesses to save it from going to waste. The app powers their efforts to build an anti-food waste movement. You can find (more…) Read More

Smart Meter users can get money back on their electricity

February 14, 2023February 14, 2023 Gemma Rickard

USwitch allows you to compare the costs of getting and using Broadband, Mobiles, Energy, Personal Finance and Insurance. If you want to switch Energy providers, they will give you the details of which energy providers you could use, and if you provide your gas and electricity usage over the last (more…) Read More

Shropshire Live Featured Article – good for the planet

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 Gemma Rickard

Shropshire Live online magazine has published an editorial, discussing how people can save money while saving the planet. At the moment people might be forgiven for thinking it is unnecessary to do so. Some may say it’s better to focus on the cost of living crisis. But at our upcoming (more…) Read More

Shropshire Live features our workshops

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 Gemma Rickard

The online newspaper Shropshire Live has provided an editorial on our grant from the Telford and Wrekin Climate Change fund. It illustrates how householders can save money by following what is required to improve our diets, heating and so on to save the planet. Click on the following to see (more…) Read More

Plant-based Ice Creams

January 14, 2023January 16, 2023 Gemma Rickard

We all love ice creams as children or adults. They make great “snacks” and are core to many recipes for puddings. Of course, for years they have been based on dairy milk, which is bad for the planet. An 80 g ice lolly generates around 70 g of CO2e. A (more…) Read More

Life in 2035

January 13, 2023January 14, 2023 Gemma Rickard

We are excited to work with Shropshire Youth Theatre to create a vision of life in 2035 after successfully transitioning to Net Zero in 2030! Climate Change requires behaviour change. People will need to change their lifestyles with respect to diet, travel, heating, and buying – pretty much all aspects (more…) Read More

SOS on Shropshire Live TV

January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 Gemma Rickard

Last year on June 28th Save Our Shropshire appeared at a breakfast briefing on climate change, alongside others very active in Climate Change, at Weston Park. It was attended by a number of local business people who were interested to discover how climate change would affect their businesses. (more…) Read More

Shropshire Star feature our new grant

January 6, 2023January 11, 2023 Gemma Rickard

Following our award from Telford and Wrekin’s Climate Change fund, the Shropshire Star announced this on Jan 4th. A great start to the New Year. We will shortly be announcing a series of practical workshops to be held across community centres like Newport, Leegomery, Wellington, Ironbridge, Oakengates and Dawley to (more…) Read More

Author: Gemma Rickard