Brentwood Climate Action is planning to fully embrace this year’s Great Big Green Week in the autumn – with an outline of events we could run agreed at this week’s BCA Steering Group meeting. For those that don’t know, the Great Big Green Week is the UK’s biggest ever celebration of community action to tackle… Continue reading
Category: Sustainability
Join our Litter Pick events on Saturday April 9
Come and join members of Brentwood Climate Action as we take part in two Litter Pick events in town on Saturday April 9 – as part of Keep Britain Tidy’s Great British Spring Clean campaign. Our latest members meeting at Chicken and Frog bookshop and also via Zoom on Thursday (March 24) agreed the time… Continue reading
Top ten Brentwood Climate Action achievements of 2021
As we head into what we hope will be a landmark year for Climate Action in Brentwood, let’s take a minute to look back on the major achievements of Brentwood Climate Action since our group was formed in late summer of 2021. In no particular order, here’s our Top Ten of Actions taken so far:… Continue reading
Council pledges Sustainability Strategy publication in 2022
Brentwood Climate Action was pleased to hear recent pledges from Brentwood Borough Council Leader, Cllr Chris Hossack, that the planned Sustainability Strategy will be published in 2022 and include carbon reduction targets and objectives for the authority. Cllr Hossack was responding to questions from BCA chair Susan Kortlandt at last week’s Ordinary Meeting of the… Continue reading
Questions asked of Brentwood Council
Brentwood Climate Action chair, Susan Kortlandt, is asking two questions of Brentwood Borough Council at their full Council Meeting tomorrow evening 1. What is the total carbon footprint of Brentwood Council from all its current operations, including housing, offices and works? 2. I note that the Council is preparing an Environmental Strategy aimed at taking… Continue reading
Council’s Ottilie West presents to November meeting
The guest speaker at our November monthly members meeting was Ottilie West, the new Climate and Sustainability Officer at Brentwood Borough Council. Ottilie joined the hybrid meeting like others via Zoom, while there was also a packed meeting room for those attending the November 23 session in-person at Chicken and Frog bookshop in Brentwood. Ottilie’s… Continue reading
Schools Conference a great success
More than 50 sixth formers from four schools across the Borough attended Brentwood Climate Action’s first Schools Conference, held at Anglo European School in Ingatestone last week. In addition to pupils from the host venue, students and their supervising staff came from Brentwood County High School, St Martin’s School, and Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School.… Continue reading
Join us in Ingatestone or online
A reminder that our monthly Members’ meeting for October takes place on Tuesday 19th – in-person in Ingatestone as well as hybrid via Zoom. The venue this month is the Seymour Pavilion at Seymour Field in Ingatestone, starting at 7.30pm – and will be a joint meeting with Ingatestone & Fryerning Parish Council Climate Emergency… Continue reading