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
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Environment
Belper Gets Green
The 2019 green festival promises to be the biggest and most environmentally conscious yet. Belper Goes Green Community, Eco and
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Opinion: What If There Had Been No Government Cuts To Sustainable Energy?
BelperStuff travelled to London last Monday to attend the SERA (Labour Environment Campaign) celebration, 10 years of the Climate Change
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Derbyshire Police Cut Carbon Footprint In Half
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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Jo Kirk: Short Story ‘Keeping Cool’
A green corner in the shade. She felt the cold stone bring relief to her feet. What a summer! The
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Strutts Centre Rain Gardens Receives National Acclaim
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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Belper Goes Green 2018: Derbyshire Eco-Festival Announces Final Line-Up
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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Transition Café At No 28 On Saturday
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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Belper Goes Green Festival Targets Single Use Plastic
Organisers of the 2018 Belper Goes Green Eco festival are leading the way to tackle single use plastic. The festival,
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Opinion: New Local Group Asks: “What Are You Doing About Plastic?”
Belper Beats Plastic is a Facebook page which was set up recently with a view to encouraging Belper residents to
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Crate Digger: 5 Plastic Platters for A Plastic Free February
Here are five songs to provide a soundtrack for a Plastic Free February. Plastic Jesus: Tia Blake Plastic is often
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Plastic Free February: Plastic Fantastic – Or Is It?
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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Nailed Launches ‘Plastic Free’ February
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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A Bags For Life Challenge
The Amber Valley Green Party has laid down a Bags for Life Challenge. They say that when it comes to
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Big Garden Birdwatch Survey This Month
27 – 29 January 2018 is Big Garden Birdwatch weekend. The RSPB are asking the public to help in the
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‘Thought Provoking’ Environmental Film Draws Large Crowd
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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Belper Eco-Festival To Return For Sixth Year
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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Award Winning Documentary ‘Demain’ To Be Shown In October
The award winning humanitarian documentary Demain (Tommorrow) is to be shown again at St Peters Church, Chesterfield Road, Belper on
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Deadline To Object To Fracking In Derbyshire Approaches
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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Reflections – Thoughts On Belper Goes Green 2017
I have now led the Belper Goes Green teams through 5 years of planning, doing, tweaking, reviewing and making every
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Election Special: Looking For A Climate Of Honesty
Seven years ago Cameron and Clegg formed their coalition and set in train the ideologically driven ‘austerity’ programme. At the
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Review: Demain (Tomorrow)
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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Election-Free Zone As Community Comes Together For Belper Goes Green
Belper Goes Green organisers have declared their 5th annual festival an Election-free Zone – a haven from the campaigning, rosettes,
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Fracking Month: Alternatives To Fracking
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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Fracking Month: Fracking And The Environment
There is a growing controversy around the question of fracking (using a mixture of water, sand and chemicals under extremely
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Guest Column: Kathy Fairweather
Gardening is one of the favourite hobbies in Britain. It can become rather addictive; I know a few people whose
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Earth Hour At The Unitarian Church, March 25th
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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Transition Café At No 28 This Saturday
After the success of the Transition Café at No 28 in October, Transition Belper now has the opportunity to make
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DerwentWISE Community Grants Now Open For Applications
DerwentWISE is offering a number of small grants for a wide range of innovative community projects that help people to
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Wildlife Observations: Spring – Autumn 2016
Walking about town, by the river, or looking out of my garden window, the birds I have seen this year
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We, The Uncivilised Film At The Ritz Followed By A Q&A Session
On August the 23rd We, the Uncivilised will be screened at The Ritz Cinema, Belper. Afterwards there will be a
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Richard Burgon MP in Conference by Bevan Cope
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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Fourth Annual Belper Goes Green Eco-festival a Huge Success
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: Labour Environmental Campaign Offers New Hope
Let me take you back to 1963 and a dark and smelly biology classroom populated by 36 scruffy and inattentive
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The UK’s Natural Environment Benefits From Our Membership of the EU – Independent Report
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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A New Oak Tree for Belper
At 11am this morning, the Environmental Group of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour planted a new oak tree at the
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Recycling – How are we Doing?
In Amber Valley we recycled a third of our domestic waste. The target for 2022 is 55% so we are
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Belper’s Vigil on Climate Change Reaches World Leaders.
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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Candlelit Vigil for 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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