10:30am – 13:30pm at 7 Crown St, Brentwood CM14 4BA
Speaker – Dr Richard Millwood – ‘What Have I Done? Choosing Green Energy.’ – starting at 11:00am for about one hour including questions and discussion.
Richard will be telling us about his personal experience of putting sustainability at the heart of our everyday decisions and reflecting on how we all have an important part to play in the green energy transistion.
Free, but please register!
We will also be sharing the Plastic Count results!
A welcoming new monthly space for everyone in Brentwood to get together and discuss climate and environmental issues, Climate Café® Brentwood, is launching in the town centre at the end of the month.
The first of regular monthly openings of Climate Café® Brentwood will take place on July 26, being organised by the town’s Brentwood Climate Action group – providing a relaxed and informal drop-in venue for anyone interested to have a chat with likeminded people.
The Cafe will take place in the community hub at 7 Crown Street, and the launch event coincides with the Summer Party taking place on the vibrant Brentwood shopping street that day. All are welcome, of any age, to stay for as little or long as they like. The Cafe will run in two sessions, from 9.30-11am; then later from 12-1.30pm.
It is a Bring Your Own Drink event due to numbers expected, and there are two nearby cafes – Hey Joe and Chantilly – happy to supply refreshments, as well as those on the High Street. Or you are free to bring your own drinks and snacks from home!
Families are encouraged to pop in, as there will be a themed drawing space, colouring equipment, as well as pens and paper for visitors to jot down their thoughts and suggestions for future Cafes.
Climate Café® is a community movement that began in rural Scotland in 2015, now with sister Cafés all around the world – all affording an inclusive space where everyone is welcome to join the climate conversation and get involved. All the chat and any action is led by those who live, work and play in that community.
Katherine Anderson, Brentwood Climate Action’s Chair, said: “We’re delighted to be launching Climate Café® Brentwood, a safe space to get together with people from across the community to Drink, Chat and Act on Climate.
“It’s free and open for all to attend, and I’m sure it will provide a positive and inspiring opportunity for the people of Brentwood to talk and listen about issues that matter to them, hopefully coming back on a monthly basis!”
Climate Café® Brentwood will take place at 7 Crown Street on the last Saturday of every month through to the end of the year. The next date is confirmed for August 30.
Brentwood Climate Action is the only Borough-based group campaigning for climate action; a totally volunteer-run and non-political group, funded purely by member and public donations. The BCA ethos is founded on engagement with a wide range of people across all environmental, cultural, faith, community and political groups.
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 climate change and protect nature. Between September 24 and October 2 this year, Great Big Green Week will unleash a wave of support for action to protect the planet. Tens of thousands of people in every corner of the country will celebrate the heartfelt, brave, everyday actions being taken to stand up for nature and fight climate change.
Together we can show decision makers that people from all walks of life are stepping up to take action on climate change – and we need them to step up too. Last year over 5000 events took place, with more than 200,000 people showing up for the planet in their community and online.
So it is definitely something that Brentwood should be participating in. And we need your help – Brentwood Climate Action members, and anyone interested in solutions to the Climate Emergency and nature crisis we face in this country and around the world – to make it happen.
Ideas currently being worked on are:
We’d like to stage these events during the week, and maybe more, but we can’t without more volunteers coming forward to help organise them and run them on the agreed dates.
So please get in touch with us at info@brentwoodclimateaction.org.uk
Or via our Contacts page, or our social media channels – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – to let us know how you’d like to get involved before and during Great Big Green Week.
The sooner we can confirm all our plans and dates/venues the sooner we can publicise all the events – and get as many people joining in with Great Big Green Week across the Borough as possible.