News
Now booking tables for Winter Green Fair ...[more]Community RePaint Wirral receive a £3000 grant from Riverside Housing.
...[more]Rickshaw for hire
A great form of sustainable transport. Perfect For Summer Fairs and Festivals and Events for all kind. £25 Daily Rate, £100 Deposit. Other rates on request. Picture
Download New Wirral Evergreen 12 Spring/Summer 2009
Please note that the office is now closed on Thursdays.
Download the latest Community RePaint Spring Newsletter, containing details of new opening hours ...[more]
School gardening club - help wanted. Primary School in Wallasey, is looking for a volunteer - a mature gardening enthusiast who's good with children! - to lend a hand with school gardening club at lunchtime for half an hour. Tel 638 5406 either around 8.30am or after 3.30pm. If anyone would like to share their love of gardening with the next generation, please get in touch.
New name for Wirral LA21 Network. At the AGM in January it was resolved to change our name to Wirral Environmental Network. Throughout the transition period you may see both names used.
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]
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
Wed July 8th, 8pm - 10:30pm - POSTPONED (being re-arranged)Food and Farming in Transition
A talk from Patrick Holden - Director of the Soil Association. Westbourne Hall, Westbourne Road, West Kirby CH48 4DQ
Patrick is a champion of local food systems and believes the Transition Model of relocalisation is exactly what is needed to avert the problems of the future. How we go about this will be the topic of Patricks talk. There will also be an informal Q & A session afterwards.
Mon July 13th - 8pm
Age of Stupid
URC Hall, Meols Drive, West Kirby, CH48 5DA
Screening of the acclaimed film. Starring Pete Postlethwaite, the film created a huge stir on its release earlier this year. Admission is free but there is a suggested donation of £3.50 per person to cover the licence fee and venue hire. Spaces are limited so please come in good time.
SAT 22ND AUGUST 10.00 2.00
GOODIES N GUBBINS
A STALLS AND INFORMATION EVENT WITH A GREEN THEME!
At Wirral Environment Centre, Falkland Road, Wallasey, CH44 8ER
(open from 9.00 for setting up. No rubbish to be left behind after event!)
Some stalls will be on grass, some on hard standing.
Bring your own gazebo and tables if you can. Some tables and chairs provided.
Plenty of pre-enjoyed items for sale, books, bric-a-brac, household goods, clothes, garden produce, refreshments, raffle - even some freebies!
Also - Community RePaint Wirral has bargains galore!
TABLES £8 cash, or cheque payable in advance to Wirral Environmental Network.
Contact 639 2121 or info@la21.net for details or to book, or download booking form.
Winter Green Fayre
Saturday 28th November 11am to 3:30pm
Please get in touch if you would like to have a stall (selling recycled crafts, local produce, Fairtrade or any environmentally friendly items). We will also have local charities, activities for children and adults, refreshments etc. Now booking tables ...[more]
What is Wirral Environmental 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?
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 Environmental Network is here to provide information and education to the public of Wirral about sustainable living.