State of Nature Report: No Let Up In Loss of UK’s Nature
The UK’s wildlife continues to decline, according to the State of Nature 2019 report. The latest findings show that since
Read moreThe UK’s wildlife continues to decline, according to the State of Nature 2019 report. The latest findings show that since
Read moreThe 2019 green festival promises to be the biggest and most environmentally conscious yet. Belper Goes Green Community, Eco and
Read moreBelperStuff travelled to London last Monday to attend the SERA (Labour Environment Campaign) celebration, 10 years of the Climate Change
Read moreDerbyshire Constabulary’s carbon footprint has reduced by 54% in the last eight years. A figure of 11,249 CO2t in 2009/10
Read moreA green corner in the shade. She felt the cold stone bring relief to her feet. What a summer! The
Read moreThe Trent Rivers Trust’s award winning rain gardens featured on national television last week when the BBC’s Gardeners World visited
Read moreTransition Belper’s Belper Goes Green has announced the full line-up for its 6th eco-festival, which takes place on Friday 1st
Read moreTransition Belper’s café will be on Saturday 28th of April at No 28 Community Hall, 28 Market Place, Belper from 10.00am
Read moreOrganisers of the 2018 Belper Goes Green Eco festival are leading the way to tackle single use plastic. The festival,
Read moreBelper Beats Plastic is a Facebook page which was set up recently with a view to encouraging Belper residents to
Read moreHere are five songs to provide a soundtrack for a Plastic Free February. Plastic Jesus: Tia Blake Plastic is often
Read morePlastic pollution is becoming one of the biggest man-made threats of the modern world, and at the rate the issue
Read moreFew people would have imagined the dramatic, devastating impact that the BBC’s wildlife documentary Blue Planet 2 would have on
Read moreThe Amber Valley Green Party has laid down a Bags for Life Challenge. They say that when it comes to
Read more27 – 29 January 2018 is Big Garden Birdwatch weekend. The RSPB are asking the public to help in the
Read moreTransition Belper teamed up with St. Peter’s Church on Friday October 27 to hold a second screening of the inspirational
Read moreThe sixth Belper Goes Green eco-festival returns on Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd of June 2018 at the Rugby Club,
Read moreThe award winning humanitarian documentary Demain (Tommorrow) is to be shown again at St Peters Church, Chesterfield Road, Belper on
Read moreAugust 10 will be the deadline for all objections to the first Derbyshire exploratory well for fracking. The contentious environmental issue,
Read moreI have now led the Belper Goes Green teams through 5 years of planning, doing, tweaking, reviewing and making every
Read moreSeven years ago Cameron and Clegg formed their coalition and set in train the ideologically driven ‘austerity’ programme. At the
Read moreTrump. Brexit. Cyber warfare. Automated Jobs. The world is in crisis. It’s a troubling time, and not just for environmentalists
Read moreBelper Goes Green organisers have declared their 5th annual festival an Election-free Zone – a haven from the campaigning, rosettes,
Read moreSo it’s all very well to criticise fracking, but what are the alternatives? If we are to progress to a
Read moreThere is a growing controversy around the question of fracking (using a mixture of water, sand and chemicals under extremely
Read moreGardening is one of the favourite hobbies in Britain. It can become rather addictive; I know a few people whose
Read moreCelebrate Earth Hour at the Unitarian Chapel on Short Row, Belper, on Saturday 25 March, 8.30pm to 9.30pm. Doors open
Read moreAfter the success of the Transition Café at No 28 in October, Transition Belper now has the opportunity to make
Read moreDerwentWISE is offering a number of small grants for a wide range of innovative community projects that help people to
Read moreWalking about town, by the river, or looking out of my garden window, the birds I have seen this year
Read moreOn August the 23rd We, the Uncivilised will be screened at The Ritz Cinema, Belper. Afterwards there will be a
Read moreOn Saturday there was a 3 hour workshop-based political conference in Derby, organised by the Derbyshire branch of Momentum, the
Read moreThis weekend saw the fourth annual Belper Goes Green Eco-festival being held at Belper Rugby Club. Hundreds attended on each
Read moreLet me take you back to 1963 and a dark and smelly biology classroom populated by 36 scruffy and inattentive
Read morePress Release from Derbyshire Wildlife Trust A report commissioned by The Wildlife Trusts, RSPB and WWF-UK from the Independent Institute
Read moreAt 11am this morning, the Environmental Group of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour planted a new oak tree at the
Read moreIn Amber Valley we recycled a third of our domestic waste. The target for 2022 is 55% so we are
Read moreNearly 150 world leaders arrived in Paris on Sunday to begin the COP:21 talks on climate change; a potentially historic
Read moreThe newly formed ‘Inner Transition’ group are in the process of organising their first event! There will be a Candlelit
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