Repair Café
Repair Cafés are meetings where local people can bring along broken, household items for simple repairs. Items repaired include home appliances, clothing, bicycles and tools. The Cafés are manned by volunteers who have the skills to complete simple repairs whilst people wait. We are planning on opening a Repair Café in Amersham. If you would […]
Sustainable Amersham at the Christmas market
In December 2020, with Christmas fast approaching, we took a market stall to show people some easy ways to make Christmas more sustainable. So much waste is created at this time of year. About 125,000 tonnes of plastic packaging alone is thrown out rather than recycled and much of it ends up in our environment. […]
Learn & Act
One of the Sustainable Amersham projects is to share information about sustainable living, in order to foster behaviour change. Our main channels are this website, Facebook and Instagram, and events like the Climate Action Day in November 2021. There are some events further afield as well: in October 2021 we organised a tour of a […]
Green Energy
Burning fossil fuels is a major contributor to climate change. By switching to renewable energy like wind and solar, and making our typically leaky homes more energy-efficient, we can all contribute to lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Find out more about green energy here. If you would like to join Sustainable Amersham and the Green Energy […]