News
Exciting new project - Liverpool Swap days Project Planning Day, 9.45 - 2.00pm, including free lunch, at St James House, adjoining Anglican Cathedral, on Sat 17th January. Anyone who wants to be involved can be! Please come. Details from jim@la21.netDates released for new gardening courses ...[more]
New Wirral Evergreen
Articles on Christmas trees, Woodchurch Community Allotment, gardening taster courses, aluminium recycling, and more ...[download here]
Community RePaint E-zine October 2008 ...read it here
New library facilities Our collection of books, videotapes, 35mm slidesets, audio tapes and CD-ROMs is now available for loan for a nominal charge. Please ring (639 2121) first to make sure staff are here to help you ...[more]
Recycling banks for clean aluminium foil are being run on a trial basis at Iceland in Moreton and Tesco in Heswall. Foil put in the banks must be clean and dry, and not mixed with any other material. ...[more]
We have moved
- to the Sandon Building, Falkland Road, Wallasey, CH44 8ER.
Our phone number is unchanged (639 2121), and fax number is 639 4826. ...[get directions]
RePaint News
We are pleased to announce that we are now starting to take/give out wallpaper and borders ...[more]
LA21 Schools Forum
Register now and get local contacts, links on recycling, energy, waste, Fairtrade, horticulture, information about events, quarterly newsletter, and new schools web forum ...[more]
Events
Sat Nov 22nd - 10am to 3pmCommunity Tree Planting Session - Grange Community Park, West Kirby
- access via Lang Lane
The Friends of Grange Community Park, in association with Transition Town West Kirby, are having a celebratory tree planting session. Wear wellies and bring a spade. Refreshments will be provided - so if possible let us know if you are attending at info@transitiontownwestkirby.org.uk. to ensure adequate supplies!
Sat 29 Nov - 2 to 4pm
Transition in Action Working Groups Formation Day
United Reformed Church, Meols Drive, West Kirby
This is your chance to share your ideas - and to help put them into action! Whatever your passion is - be it housing, food, energy, the arts, healthcare - come along to the Open Space session and contribute in which ever way you can. Working Groups will then be formed with the aim of making projects happen in West Kirby!
www.transitiontownwestkirby.org.uk
Fri 12th Dec - 5pm
'Carols by Candlelight' - at the Wirral LA21 Network office.
Singing outside if it's dry, so wrap up! Mince pies and hot drinks available. Come and help us make this a festive Friday, and sing some seasonal songs and carols! All welcome. Free admission, but the donation box will be available to help cover the cost of the mince pies etc!
Tues January 20th 2009
Wirral Talks Debate:
BRITAIN SHOULD DO MORE TO PREVENT CLIMATE CHANGE
Prenton Literary & Debating Society www.wirraltalks.co.uk
Enquiries to Arthur Maltby 0151 342 5775
What is Wirral LA21 Network?
An environmental education charity (Registration No. 1068306) set up to promote and facilitate ethical and environmentally friendly lifestyles.Aims
The aim of the organisation is to advance the education of the public about the preservation of our world's natural environment, ecological sustainability, natural resource conservation, waste management, recycling, and the principles of Fairtrade within Wirral and the surrounding area.Where are we based?
On the 14th July we moved to the Sandon Building, Falkland Road, Wallasey, CH44 8ER.Tel: 0151 639 2121 fax number 639 4826. ...how to get there The office is halfway along Falkland Road look for blue railings and an orange roof. Our entrance is at the right-hand side of the building as you look at it. The entrance at the other end belongs to Energy Projects Plus.
Email: info@la21.net
What is sustainability?
Sustainability is now a term used internationally to describe an approach to life that many believe to be mankind's only viable chance of avoiding the environmental disasters that now seem to be part of our future.It is also a chance to reassert the value of social and environmental issues in a world that is becoming more and more materialistic and money orientated. It stresses that environmental issues are bound into social and economical ones, and are not to be considered as separate, or less important.
The Sustainable Life is one in which we meet our daily needs in a way that is within the carrying capacity of the Earths ecosystems, and that could be maintained indefinitely by our children. It is living off nature's interest, rather than her capital. It is to respect our resources, by minimising waste, reducing energy use, recycling materials, and cutting out excessive consumption. We dont need to starve ourselves, but rather change our present care-free attitude to resources and materials.
This website offers practical ideas for sustainable living.
Why live sustainably on Wirral?
At local level:
- It would bring all the benefits of a clean and natural environment: better quality of life and health. Clean air, water, parks etc.
- Saving resources will save YOU money.
- Improving the environment is an essential part of rebuilding community spirit.
At global level:
- It is a life that has a future. Our present form of consumerism is unsustainable, neglects both our future and that of our children, and threatens global disaster. Much of Wirral's residential land is below sea level. If Global Warming causes the sea to rise enough, the 21st century could mean drastic changes for our peninsula.
The Sustainability Movement is an international one that is being subscribed to by governments and businesses all over the world. In 1992, 179 world states met at the United Nations' Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro to try to attack the issue of our relationship with our environment. They realised that environmental issues reach deep into economic and social ones: for example, that rising sea levels brought about from Global Warming will mean loss of land, property, huge expenses for flood defence, and great risk to health and lives.
They had realised that our life-philosophy and idea of development must be reformed. Their term used to label this philosophy is Sustainable Development. The UK was, in fact, one of the first countries in the world to prepare a national Sustainable Development strategy
Wirral LA21 Network is here to provide information and education to the public of Wirral about sustainable living.
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