SOSWatkins, Author at Save Our Shropshire

Shropshire Live Featured Article – good for the planet

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 SOSWatkins

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 SOSWatkins

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 SOSWatkins

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 SOSWatkins

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 SOSWatkins

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 SOSWatkins

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

Carbon Literacy Action Day certificates awarded

January 5, 2023January 5, 2023 SOSWatkins

On November 7th 2022 Save Our Shropshire ran a one-day workshop for the general public to coincide with the start of the global “Conference of Parties” COP27. It was part of a series of meetings, the last of which was COP26 held in Glasgow. It established a commitment to help (more…) Read More

Telford and Wrekin Grant

December 15, 2022December 15, 2022 SOSWatkins

Save Our Shropshire is delighted to announce that Telford and Wrekin have awarded us a grant of £ 10,000 to deliver education across the borough during 2023. We will be using this grant to provide practical workshops across Telford and Wrekin, helping consumers to understand how they can both tackle (more…) Read More

Consumer-led action against climate change

November 14, 2022November 14, 2022 SOSWatkins

The current strategy for achieving climate change in the UK is flawed, and we are not making the progress that we desperately need. Tackling the problem sector by sector is too complicated. Thus trying to tackle the energy sector, the transport sector, agriculture and so on is hard. Only 17 (more…) Read More

Net Zero – The Ambition Gap

November 11, 2022November 11, 2022 SOSWatkins

This paper critiques the UK’s Net Zero Strategy and proposes a bill for parliament that will take into account the gaps in the current strategy. The Government’s strategy was found by the High Court to be illegal in July, a finding to which the government agreed in September. This paper (more…) Read More

Author: SOSWatkins