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Environment

ENVIRONMENT NEWS 

State of Nature Report: No Let Up In Loss of UK’s Nature

11th October 2019 Admin 0 Comments Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, Environment, State of Nature Report, Wildlife

The UK’s wildlife continues to decline, according to the State of Nature 2019 report. The latest findings show that since

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ENVIRONMENT NEWS WHAT'S ON 

Belper Gets Green

13th May 201918th May 2019 Edward Sills 1 Comment 2019, Belper Goes Green, BGG, CAMRA, Community, Environment, Festival, Rugby Club, Seventh, Transition Belper

The 2019 green festival promises to be the biggest and most environmentally conscious yet. Belper Goes Green Community, Eco and

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ENVIRONMENT OPINION 

Opinion: What If There Had Been No Government Cuts To Sustainable Energy?

3rd December 20183rd December 2018 Admin 0 Comments climate change, cuts, Derbyshire, Environment, Government, John Porter, Labour, Labour Party, SERA

BelperStuff travelled to London last Monday to attend the SERA (Labour Environment Campaign) celebration, 10 years of the Climate Change

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ENVIRONMENT NEWS 

Derbyshire Police Cut Carbon Footprint In Half

31st August 201814th November 2019 Admin 1 Comment Carbon Footprint, Derbyshire Police, emissions, Environment

Derbyshire Constabulary’s carbon footprint has reduced by 54% in the last eight years. A figure of 11,249 CO2t in 2009/10

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CREATIVE BELPER CULTURE 

Jo Kirk: Short Story ‘Keeping Cool’

29th July 201829th July 2018 Jo Kirk 0 Comments Creative, culture, Environment, fiction, Keeping Cool, Short Story, Summer, Writing

A green corner in the shade. She felt the cold stone bring relief to her feet. What a summer! The

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ENVIRONMENT NEWS 

Strutts Centre Rain Gardens Receives National Acclaim

25th June 201825th June 2018 Edward Sills 3 Comments BBC, charity, Environment, flood, Gardeners World, Gardening, Rain Garden, rivers, Strutt Centre, Trent Rivers Trust

The Trent Rivers Trust’s award winning rain gardens featured on national television last week when the BBC’s Gardeners World visited

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ENVIRONMENT FEATURED NEWS 

Belper Goes Green 2018: Derbyshire Eco-Festival Announces Final Line-Up

20th May 2018 Edward Sills 2 Comments 2018, Belper Goes Green, Community, Environment, Festival, Line-Up, Transition Belper

Transition Belper’s Belper Goes Green has announced the full line-up for its 6th eco-festival, which takes place on Friday 1st

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BELPER GOES GREEN ENVIRONMENT WHAT'S ON 

Transition Café At No 28 On Saturday

25th April 2018 Claire Meese 0 Comments April, Community Hall, Environment, My Happy Space, No 28, Tetra pack, Transition Belper, Transition Café

Transition Belper’s café will be on Saturday 28th of April at No 28 Community Hall, 28 Market Place, Belper from  10.00am

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ENVIRONMENT FEATURED NEWS 

Belper Goes Green Festival Targets Single Use Plastic

22nd April 201824th April 2018 Edward Sills 0 Comments 2018, Belper Goes Green, CAMRA Beer Festival, ECO Festival, Environment, live entertainment, Plastic, Rugby Club, Single Use Plastic, use

Organisers of the 2018 Belper Goes Green Eco festival are leading the way to tackle single use plastic. The festival,

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ENVIRONMENT OPINION 

Opinion: New Local Group Asks: “What Are You Doing About Plastic?”

26th February 2018 Claire Meese 1 Comment Belper Beats Plastic, Environment, oceans, Plastic, Plastic Free February, single use, supermarkets

Belper Beats Plastic is a Facebook page which was set up recently with a view to encouraging Belper residents to

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ENVIRONMENT 

Crate Digger: 5 Plastic Platters for A Plastic Free February

18th February 20182nd March 2018 Tony Webster 0 Comments 5 Songs, Cratedigger, Environment, plastic free month

Here are five songs to provide a soundtrack for a Plastic Free February. Plastic Jesus: Tia Blake Plastic is often

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ENVIRONMENT FEATURED 

Plastic Free February: Plastic Fantastic – Or Is It?

2nd February 2018 Claire Meese 0 Comments Be plastic clever, campaign, Environment, Kids against plastic, kidsvplastic, Plastic, Plastic Free February, pollution, Tips

Plastic pollution is becoming one of the biggest man-made threats of the modern world, and at the rate the issue

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ENVIRONMENT FEATURED NEWS 

Nailed Launches ‘Plastic Free’ February

31st January 2018 Edward Sills 0 Comments Belper, Environment, february, Free, Nailed, Plastic, Plastic Free February, single use

Few people would have imagined the dramatic, devastating impact that the BBC’s wildlife documentary Blue Planet 2 would have on

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ENVIRONMENT POLITICS 

A Bags For Life Challenge

15th January 2018 Tony Webster 1 Comment Amber Valley Green party, Bags For Life Challenge, Environment, Plastic Waste

The Amber Valley Green Party has laid down a Bags for Life Challenge. They say that when it comes to

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ENVIRONMENT 

Big Garden Birdwatch Survey This Month

12th January 2018 Claire Meese 0 Comments Big Garden Birdwatch, Birds, Birdwatching, Environment, RSPB, survey

27 – 29  January 2018 is Big Garden Birdwatch weekend. The RSPB are asking the public to help in the

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ENVIRONMENT 

‘Thought Provoking’ Environmental Film Draws Large Crowd

30th October 2017 Claire Meese 0 Comments Community, Environment, Film, St. Peter's Church, Tomorrow, Transition Belper

Transition Belper teamed up with St. Peter’s Church on Friday October 27 to hold a second screening of the inspirational

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ENVIRONMENT FEATURED NEWS 

Belper Eco-Festival To Return For Sixth Year

27th October 2017 Edward Sills 0 Comments 2018, Belper Goes Green, CAMRA Beer Festival, ECO Festival, Environment, live entertainment, Rugby Club

The sixth Belper Goes Green eco-festival returns on Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd of June 2018 at the Rugby Club,

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ENVIRONMENT WHAT'S ON 

Award Winning Documentary ‘Demain’ To Be Shown In October

28th September 2017 Edward Sills 0 Comments documentary, Environment, Film, St Peter’s, Transition Belper

The award winning humanitarian documentary Demain (Tommorrow) is to be shown again at St Peters Church, Chesterfield  Road, Belper on

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ENVIRONMENT NEWS 

Deadline To Object To Fracking In Derbyshire Approaches

20th July 2017 Edward Sills 2 Comments Application, Derbyshire, Environment, fracking, Planning

August 10 will be the deadline for all objections to the first Derbyshire exploratory well for fracking. The contentious environmental issue,

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ENVIRONMENT FEATURED OPINION 

Reflections – Thoughts On Belper Goes Green 2017

12th June 201712th June 2017 David George 3 Comments 2017, Belper Goes Green, Environment, Transition Belper, Volunteer

I have now led the Belper Goes Green teams through 5 years of planning, doing, tweaking, reviewing and making every

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ENVIRONMENT OPINION POLITICS 

Election Special: Looking For A Climate Of Honesty

29th May 2017 David George 1 Comment 2017 general election, Change, Climate, Conservative, Election Special, Environment, Government, Labour

Seven years ago Cameron and Clegg formed their coalition and set in train the ideologically driven ‘austerity’ programme. At the

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ENVIRONMENT REVIEWS 

Review: Demain (Tomorrow)

24th May 2017 Edward Sills 0 Comments Demain, Environment, Go Green Café, No 28, Tomorrow, Transition Belper

Trump. Brexit. Cyber warfare. Automated Jobs. The world is in crisis. It’s a troubling time, and not just for environmentalists

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BELPER GOES GREEN ENVIRONMENT NEWS 

Election-Free Zone As Community Comes Together For Belper Goes Green

6th May 2017 David George 0 Comments Belper Goes Green, charities, Community, Election-Free Zone, Environment, Transition Belper

Belper Goes Green organisers have declared their 5th annual festival an Election-free Zone – a haven from the campaigning, rosettes,

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ENVIRONMENT FEATURED 

Fracking Month: Alternatives To Fracking

19th April 2017 Claire Meese 0 Comments advice, alternatives, Energy, Environment, fracking, renewable energy

So it’s all very well to criticise fracking, but what are the alternatives? If we are to progress to a

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ENVIRONMENT FEATURED 

Fracking Month: Fracking And The Environment

7th April 2017 Mick Hepworth 1 Comment DEFRA, Environment, fracking, Friends of the Earth, Public Health England, Shale Gas, Transition Belper

There is a growing controversy around the question of fracking (using a mixture of water, sand and chemicals under extremely

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ENVIRONMENT FEATURED 

Guest Column: Kathy Fairweather

18th March 2017 Kathy Fairweather 2 Comments advice, Environment, Exercise, Gardening, Health, March, Nature, Research, Tips

Gardening is one of the favourite hobbies in Britain. It can become rather addictive; I know a few people whose

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ENVIRONMENT WHAT'S ON 

Earth Hour At The Unitarian Church, March 25th

8th March 2017 Edward Sills 0 Comments Earth Hour, Environment, Live Music, Lucy Milford, Sue MacFarlane, Unitarian Chapel, World

Celebrate Earth Hour at the Unitarian Chapel on Short Row, Belper, on Saturday 25 March, 8.30pm to 9.30pm. Doors open

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BELPER GOES GREEN ENVIRONMENT NEWS WHAT'S ON 

Transition Café At No 28 This Saturday

26th January 2017 David George 0 Comments Community Hall, Environment, No 28, Transition Belper, Transition Café

After the success of the Transition Café at No 28 in October, Transition Belper now has the opportunity to make

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ENVIRONMENT FEATURED 

DerwentWISE Community Grants Now Open For Applications

7th December 20167th December 2016 Tony Webster 0 Comments Community, DerwentWISE, Environment, grants

DerwentWISE is offering a number of small grants for a wide range of innovative community projects that help people to

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ENVIRONMENT 

Wildlife Observations: Spring – Autumn 2016

2nd December 20162nd December 2016 Claire Meese 0 Comments Birds, Environment, Observations, Wildlife

Walking about town, by the river, or looking out of my garden window, the birds I have seen this year

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ENVIRONMENT WHAT'S ON 

We, The Uncivilised Film At The Ritz Followed By A Q&A Session

6th August 2016 Claire Meese 0 Comments Environment, Film, Q&A, Ritz, Screening, The Ritz Cinema, the Uncivilised, We

On August the 23rd We, the Uncivilised will be screened at The Ritz Cinema, Belper. Afterwards there will be a

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NEWS POLITICS 

Richard Burgon MP in Conference by Bevan Cope

22nd July 20163rd June 2019 Admin 0 Comments economics, Environment, fracking, Labour Party, youth

On Saturday there was a 3 hour workshop-based political conference in Derby, organised by the Derbyshire branch of Momentum, the

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BELPER GOES GREEN ENVIRONMENT FEATURED NEWS 

Fourth Annual Belper Goes Green Eco-festival a Huge Success

7th June 20167th June 2016 Edward Sills 0 Comments Belper Goes Green, Belper Rugby Club, CAMRA, Environment, Transition Belper

This weekend saw the fourth annual Belper Goes Green Eco-festival being held at Belper Rugby Club. Hundreds attended on each

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OPINION 

Opinion: Labour Environmental Campaign Offers New Hope

25th March 20163rd June 2019 Admin 8 Comments Belper Labour Party, Environment, John Porter, Labour, SERA

Let me take you back to 1963 and a dark and smelly biology classroom populated by 36 scruffy and inattentive

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ENVIRONMENT HEALTH & WELLBEING NEWS 

The UK’s Natural Environment Benefits From Our Membership of the EU – Independent Report

15th March 201615th March 2016 Emma Clinton 0 Comments Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, Environment, EU Referendum, IEEP, Wildlife, Wildlife Trusts

Press Release from Derbyshire Wildlife Trust A report commissioned by The Wildlife Trusts, RSPB and WWF-UK from the Independent Institute

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ENVIRONMENT NEWS 

A New Oak Tree for Belper

8th December 20159th December 2015 Clare Washbrook 2 Comments Catholic, climate change, Environment, Pope, tree

At 11am this morning, the Environmental Group of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour planted a new oak tree at the

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ENVIRONMENT FEATURED 

Recycling – How are we Doing?

3rd December 20153rd June 2019 Admin 0 Comments amber valley, Environment, Recycling

In Amber Valley we recycled a third of our domestic waste. The target for 2022 is 55% so we are

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ENVIRONMENT FEATURED NEWS 

Belper’s Vigil on Climate Change Reaches World Leaders.

30th November 201531st May 2016 Clare Washbrook 1 Comment Climate, Cop:21, Environment, Protest

Nearly 150 world leaders arrived in Paris on Sunday to begin the COP:21 talks on climate change; a potentially historic

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ENVIRONMENT FEATURED WHAT'S ON 

Candlelit Vigil for Paris 2015

24th September 201522nd June 2021 Admin 0 Comments Belper, Environment, Paris 2015

The newly formed ‘Inner Transition’ group are in the process of organising their first event! There will be a Candlelit

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CULTURE WHAT'S ON 

Derbyshire charity to screen award-nominated short film in Belper

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An award-winning short film highlighting the impact of rural domestic abuse is set for a special screening in Belper on

New film by Seiko Kinoshita to be shown in Belper
CREATIVE BELPER CULTURE WHAT'S ON 

New film by Seiko Kinoshita to be shown in Belper

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ENVIRONMENT WHAT'S ON 

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