Eco Tips
Each month we will be sharing ideas of things you can do to shrink your carbon footprint and combat climate change. They will range from easy and cheap challenges to really life-changing ones.
We hope you’re up for the challenge, but please do what you can as it all helps. If there’s anything you’d like to know more about, or a topic you’d like us to cover in future, do let us know.
Liz Francis
This Month's Eco Tips: Unwanted Items
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Pass on clothes, toys etc your children have outgrown to other families
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Take them to a charity shop, share in a Facebook group like Thame Bay or Thame Freebay, the Olio app, Freegle, Freecycle
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Cancel delivery of unwanted mail/catalogues
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Campaign: https://therestartproject.org/campaigns/repair-reuse-declaration/
This Month's Eco Tips: Local Actions
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Appreciate good civil servants and public officials
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Encourage them. Recognize their good work, their vocation of service to the common good. Write a thank you note online or in your local media to those who work every day, honestly in their jobs, to those people who take care of what belongs to all of us.
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Contact your MP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wgoDYzvZ8I
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/contact-your-mp -
Send a ‘letter to the editor’: https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/send-letter-editor
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Buy from local shops. It will avoid the extra packaging of online shopping
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Enjoy nature and develop an appreciation of our beautiful countryside. Take a small bag with you when out and about to pick up litter on paths and in the countryside or on the beach.
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Borrow, rent or buy second-hand equipment like tents and camping stoves - check out the ‘Borrow’ and ‘Wanted’ sections on the OLIO app, or ask on the Cornerstone App!
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Join a Community Action Group: https://www.cagoxfordshire.org.uk/groups
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Organise a local litter pick: https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/do-litter-pick-or-beach-clean. If there’s a local group already, join them https://www.thamewombles.co.uk/
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Talk to your family & friends about what you do to help and what they could do too
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Use your local Library of Things: https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/home-garden/library-things-directory
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Sign up for local newsletters to find out what’s going on and how you can get involved: e.g. https://www.thametowncouncil.gov.uk/news/newsletter-sign-up/
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Check out these local websites:
https://thamegreenliving.org.uk/
https://www.climateactionoxfordshire.org.uk/
https://www.oxonair.uk/local-initiatives
https://groups.friendsoftheearth.uk/groups/chinnor-and-thame-friends-of-the-earth
https://www.facebook.com/groups/plasticfreethame/
https://thamecop.co.uk/
https://21stcenturythame.co.uk/
https://theconversation.southandvale.gov.uk/
https://small99.co.uk/people-planet-pint-meetup/
https://www.lowcarbonhub.org/
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