ENVIRONMENT

May Day weekend. A traditional – 1000's of years – celebration of Spring and the flowering of nature. And since 1978 in the UK a celebration of International Labour Day.

Always willing to indulge, I attended four events spanning the long weekend, which proved, to my satisfaction, that there's always lots to enjoy in Lowestoft.

Eastern Angles are a theatre group who have been writing and performing across East Anglia for nearly forty years, providing a ridiculous number of productions investigating and relishing every aspect of our lives and history.

Triangle Market 10-12ish

We are living in the age of waste. Is design the answer to leaving our throwaway culture behind? 

#EndTheWasteAge

'Fascinating, beautiful glimpses into a brave new world of design.’

First Saturday of the month - Compass Street, High Street. We collect TetraPaks, crisp packets, toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes, gently  worn bra's, but mainly it's good to use the recycling which is already available, like supermarkets. Use our constantly updated map to find out what can go where (scroll down for the link). We are also a Hygiene Bank Donation Point.

Use It All Stall will be collecting on Friday and Saturday.

We'll also be at Great Green Weekender 24th September

A green event at the Sparrow's nest, including Use It All recycling hub. There's music and stalls and fun, all in the great Lowestoft Sparrow's Nest

The Great Big Green Weekend event low-carboned its way through Sparrow's Nest on Saturday. Our Lowestoft Town Council wanted to highlight the issues facing us all from Climate Change.

The rain held off, the wind was sensible, and a good few people turned up. A very rough estimate would be at least 2000 people and a fair few dogs through the day.

There were many stalls, mostly green or nature themed in some way.

Tuesday's warning that gas shortages in this coming winter might lead to interrupted electricity supplies – that is, power cuts – reminded me of Lowestoft's own new power station.

At the Norfolk and Suffolk Coast and Estuary Conference on 15th October in the Orbis Energy Centre Peter Aldous MP had some critical things to say about 'Central Government' (which is his government since 2010).

He said “...governments – whether it's wind-farms or solar farms, or dare I say it, fracking, governments impose these things on communities... but governments shouldn't work with communities, communities should lead projects.”

21 November 18:00-21:00, East Suffolk House, Melton

The next full Greenprint Forum event – their first in-person since the pandemic – which they intend to use to hear about the challenges faced by communities in the face of climate change, how communities are making positive changes towards resilience to face these challenges, and what the aspirations of our communities are.

This will be held at East Suffolk House, Melton,on the evening of Monday the 21st of November 2022.