Climate Justice
Climate justice is growing as a organising principle for climate action. Guiding policy-making such as the Loss and Damage Fund of COP27, it is clear that climate action must prioritise the just transition to a low-carbon economy. To learn more about the climate justice concept, read the introductory piece on our website for an explanation of what climate justice is and links to other key resources.
It is written by Mark Grundy, a member of the Sustainable Amersham Learn and Act team.
Come and join us at these events in March
This Saturday, 2nd March 2024, 10am-1pm.
St Michaels Church, Amersham.
Bring your broken objects to our fantastic volunteer repairers to see if they can have a new lease of life, tackling electrical, sewing and gluing repairs.
Come early and please bring a maximum of two items, as it can be very busy, particularly for electrical items.
There is coffee and cake, and bring your empties too- Orca and Bee will be there with a wide range of home and personal care refills.
This month Wild Amersham are having a SEED SWAP at the Repair Café. Bring any leftover seeds, swap them for others, get tips on green gardening, talk to other gardeners, and if you are just starting out, come and get some seeds without swapping. Get ready for spring!
Tuesday 5th March 202
Learn and Act Team meeting, 6-7pm Zoom
The L&A team communicates information on sustainability and protecting biodiversity and promotes our local projects on social media, on our website, in newsletter emails and in print.
New members are very welcome- contact Anne for details
Friday, 8 March⋅7:30–8:30 pm -online talk.
Mending the Misbourne: reviving a Chiltern chalk stream
Learn about the fascinating nature of chalk streams and what is being done to help the Misbourne chalk stream in the Chilterns.
This talk is organised by Prestwood Nature and Wild Amersham. This talk is free to attend but please consider making a donation to help support our work.
More details and book on Eventbrite
The Big Plastic Count 11th-17th March 2024
March sees the return of the nationwide Big Plastic Count,
where households chart ALL their plastic waste for one whole week- 11th-17th March. This includes rigid plastic containers, soft plastics, recyclable and non recyclable.
At Sustainable Amersham we are asking our supporters to go one step further and keep the plastic as well.
We hope to join forces with students at the Amersham School to create a display of all the plastic collected at the Climate Action Day to be held at St Michael’s Church in Amersham on 23rd March- see below for more details.
Please help us to do this- sign up to the Big Plastic Count and contact Nikki to drop off your collected plastic. Thanks!
Friday 15th March, 2-5pm
Learn about climate change with an online interactive Climate Fresk workshop. You can’t fix what you don’t understand. Luckily, the Climate Fresk turns climate science into a game!
Sustainable Amersham supporters can buy tickets for £12 here
Tuesday 19th March,
Wild Amersham Team Meeting 7pm Zoom
This team works to engage local people to love and protect local nature. If you are interested in volunteering regularly or occasionally with Wild Amersham, come to our Zoom meeting to find out how you might like to get involved.
Wednesday 20th March
Monthly supporters meeting 6-7pm Zoom
This is a swift round up of all the project areas.
All supporters are very welcome to attend- we follow an agenda covering each team, and you can find out what is being planned and see if there are things you would like to get involved in. Come and bring ideas of what we might work on to make Amersham more sustainable.
Just log in to the Zoom link, or email to introduce yourself if you would like to make contact beforehand.
Saturday 23rd March, 10am – 1pm
Climate Action Day – Youth Take Over
St. Michaels Church, Amersham
Students from Amersham School, Dr Challoner’s High School and Dr Challoner’s Grammar School (DCGS) are taking over this year’s Climate Action Day on Saturday 23rd March.
Co-ordinated by Amersham Town Council, details are being finalised but will include a clothes swap and fashion show, plus displays from each school highlighting specific environmental issues.
The event is lead by local students, and the focus on Sustainable Fashion will give information on the impact of fast fashion and ideas on how to make our fashion choices count.
Sustainable Amersham will support Amersham school in their display focusing on plastics.
Come along for some fresh ideas from the Youth Take Over!
Amersham Toy Re-homing – helps your pocket, the planet and your sanity!
Little green adventures first Toy Swap took place on Saturday 24th February. 50 families came to Amersham library to swap their toys or take some toys for a small donation. Families were really excited and we managed to swap 200 toys.
Watch out for our next Toy swap coming in June!
Looking ahead, little green adventures is organising a Family Cooking session on the 20th of April and a visit to a local Sustainable Farm on the 22nd of May.
Watch this space for more information on both events!
Wild Amersham – lovely wild activities in February!
- Some 40 people joined online for a nature talk co-hosted by Wild Amersham and Prestwood Nature.
Engaging naturalist John Tyler had lots of stunning photos and fascinating stories about weird and wonderful winter creatures. - On 4th February, a group of St Mary’s School families planted 12 heritage fruit trees in the wildflower meadow orchard -the work was done in no time!
- On 14th February, 23 excited children started national nestbox week by constructing and decorating nest boxes and apple feeders for garden birds at Amersham Band.
- And on 26th February, a group of volunteers braved the freezing wind for a ‘wild gym’ session to prune and mulch the native hedge at Amersham Band.
It has also been lovely to see that the first spring flowers are appearing in the wildflower meadows at the Amersham Hospital project- this would not be happening if the lawns were still being mown so that’s an early wild win already!
If you would like to get our monthly Wild Amersham email newsletter (with more detailed information about Wild Amersham’s nature work and events as well as those of other nature organisations in the local area), please fill out this short form or email us.
DATE CHANGE Monday 22nd April 2024 7.30- 9pm
Sustainable Amersham Book Club.
Come discuss ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer, to delve into indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants. The date has been changed to avoid the Easter holidays.
Anyone can dip in and out of the book club depending on whether you can make the date, or are interested in the next book.
Reserve your spot on Eventbrite (free)