Environmental Education Workshops
Free workshops are offered to voluntary organisations, community groups and schools. To find out more or to register your interest, please download the leaflet. (PDF Format).
For Fairtrade Fortnight 2011 Fairtrade.org are asking the nation to show off about buying Fairtrade which offers 7.5 million people in the developing world a more secure future.Click here for more details..
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Project OsKar is a new furniture Recycling Centre in Paisley. It aims to help reduce landfill, provide jobs and training, and provide a new retail outlet for refurbished goods.
For more details logon to www.projectoskar.org
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A new group is being established to organise monthly clean ups of the Bluebell Woods in Johnstone. If you're interested, find out more here by downloading the flyer (MS Word Format) (PDF Format).
Click Here to see some of our Pictures of Bluebell Woods
Download our Carbon footprint Guide on how to reduce your CO2 Emissions.
On this page, you will find links to reference documents related to environmental interests. Most of the publications are about energy – (renewable energy, climate change and energy efficiency), sustainable transport, waste, and food and health.
There is a currently a draft framework entitled "Making Scotland a leader in green energy: Draft framework for the development and deployment of renewable energy in Scotland"from the Scottish Governments website www.scotland.gov.uk.http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications.
The Climate Change (Scotland) Bill (SP Bill 17) is a Bill to set a target for the year 2050, an interim target for the year 2030, and to provide for annual targets, for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; to provide about the giving of advice to the Scottish Ministers relating to climate change; to confer power on Ministers to impose climate change duties on public bodies; to make further provision about mitigation of and adaptation to climate change; to make provision about energy efficiency; to make provision about the reduction and recycling of waste; and for connected purposes.visit http://www.scotland.gov.uk/climatechangebillfor more details about this bill.
According to the Scottish Government´s sustainable transport home page, sustainable transport is about reducing the environmental, social and economic impact of travel by promoting and facilitating people and organisations to use more sustainable and active forms of travel. Visit http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Transport/sustainable-transport for more information.
In January 2008, the new Scottish Government outlined ambitious plans for a Zero Waste Scotland. The aim of the plan is to maximise recycling, minimise waste and ensure that products are made to be reused, repaired or recycled. The plans included increasing the targets for waste reduction and recycling in Scotland. For more information visit Zero Waste Scotland, A New Vision for Waste.
According to the "Community Food and Health (Scotland)" website, Food and health initiatives help people take up healthy diet, especially those in low-income communities. A recently added publication entitled "The Missing Ingredients" serves to outline the practice, policy and impact of food, health and homelessness issues in Scotland. Link to "The Missing Ingredients" for a copy of this publication in PDF format.
