We’re excited to announce a series of online workshops, in collaboration with other community and environmental groups across Oxford – “Communities for Zero Carbon Oxford”. The workshops are all designed to help us as individuals and communities take action to combat the climate crisis. Topics include tree care, waste, food and home energy/ retrofit, details below:
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It’s our 10 year anniversary! Watch our short film about LCON
Moved by the failure of the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, in 2010 a group of North Oxford residents got together to find ways of taking local action to combat climate change. To mark our first ten years, and to help more people find out who we are and what we do, we have made a short film. We describe the activities we have carried out over the years, reflect on where we need to go next, and share our hopes for a future Oxford. Watch the film on our YouTube channel – and if you like it, please share!
Cutteslowe school children plant 100 tree seeds
It’s National Tree Week, the UK’s largest tree planting celebration, marking the start of the winter planting season. There are various opportunities across Oxford and Oxfordshire to get involved: Oxford Friends of the Earth are planting 400 trees in Botley on 5 and 6 December; Rose Hill and Iffley Low Carbon will be planting the first phase of their orchard in late January or early February; and Banbury Trees has received 950 saplings from the ‘I Dig Trees’ scheme which will be planted at a local park.
Continue readingThe Green Homes Grant – how it could help retrofit your home
“Serious free cash” is how Martin Lewis puts it. The government’s Green Homes Grant could cover up to £5000 of retrofit costs (up to £10,000 for those on lower incomes), so – despite reported difficulties with the scheme – it is definitely worth checking out.
Continue readingLet’s not forget about the climate emergency: write to your local councillors
Photo: Mati Warwick
It is a year since Oxford City Council held its Citizens Assembly on the climate emergency, and budget planning for next year is beginning at officer level. We are concerned that short-term financial pressures may take priority over climate commitments.
Councillors need to be reminding officers of the crucial importance of sticking to the City Council’s commitments on the climate emergency, and we’d encourage all LCON supporters and other concerned citizens to ask their local councillors to do this.
Below is a template email you can use as the basis for your own communications, and you can find out who your local councillor is, and their contact details, here.
Continue readingOxford 2040 webinar and panel discussion – recording and key messages
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Oxford 2040 event! The event explored what a thriving Oxford in 2040 could look like, and what action we need to take, drawing on Damon Gameau’s inspiring film ‘2040‘.
Our panel of guest speakers included Barbara Hammond MBE from the Low Carbon Hub on energy, Abena Poku-Awuah from the Coalition for Healthy Streets and Active Travel on travel, and Harpreet Kaur Paul, lawyer and climate-just solutions consultant, on food and farming. A recording is now available here.
Continue readingDivestment webinar – recording and follow up
A big thank you to all who came to our Divestment webinar in July. We were delighted to welcome Ben Caldecott (Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme) and student campaigner Anna Olerinyova to share their perspectives.
For those who were unable to attend, a recording of the webinar is now available here.
Continue readingWebinar on Sustainable Fashion – key messages, recording and slides
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Sustainable Fashion webinar with Kim Polgreen (Sustainability Educator) and Stephen Cawley (former Head of Sustainability at John Lewis). We hope you enjoyed it and found it useful.
For those who were unable to attend, a recording of the webinar is now available here and you can access the slides here: Kim Polgreen and Stephen Cawley.
Continue readingBuild Oxford Back Better
As lockdown restrictions are eased, now is the time to push for measures to preserve our cleaner air and quieter streets, and ensure continued high levels of walking and cycling.
Continue readingWant to talk about Climate Change? Join one of our friendly Climate Cafes
Our Climate Cafes run monthly. Details are on our Meetup page. Climate Cafes provide a supportive space in which to talk about how the climate crisis is affecting us – without pressure to act. The cafes are facilitated by Rebecca Nestor.
During the Coronavirus outbreak our Climate Cafes are taking place via online platform Zoom. Please see the Meetup page for further details, including future dates.
We think our Climate Cafes offer something different from the usual gatherings of people with interests in climate change. They are facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak. They are not designed to recruit you to do anything or to put you under any pressure. The idea behind them is that talking about climate change is really important – but it is often made more difficult by our feelings of guilt that we are not doing enough, or frustration that others are not doing enough. So we provide a space in which we don’t talk about what we or others are doing or should be doing. We just talk about climate change and how it is making us think and feel. Everyone is welcome.
