News
Merseycare Transport runs on cooking oil.Read more and help now by donating your used cooking oil.
RePaint closes for Summer at 5pm on Friday 20 August and re-opens at 1pm on Monday 6 September (the WEN office re-opens at 9am)
Swap Day Training ...[more]
Download Latest Wirral Evergreen 14 Winter/Spring 2009/10
Wirral Council launches new Carbon Reduction scheme. Log in now and find out more about how to cut your carbon footprint.
WEN needs your help to keep our projects going - see our new funding letter.
Wirral Council has resolved to undertake a short term trial of kitchen waste collection -
see item 32, Council meeting 13th July, 2009
WEN is pleased to announce that we have a new group on Facebook.
If you would like to follow the progress of WEN through news, updates and photos, find details of upcoming events, hold discussions or maybe talk to other people in the area who are interested in environmental issues, then please join our group. If you would like to join the group please search for Wirral Environmental Network on Facebook. 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. £30 Daily Rate, £100 Deposit. Other rates on request. Picture
Please note that the office is now closed on Thursdays.
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 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]
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
Sat 11th Sept 1.30 to 4.30pmGreen Village
Rolling Presentations & Literature
• Concerned about high energy bills last winter?
• Want to improve insulation? ventilation?
• Want to speak to the experts?
• What can and cant (yet) be done with listed buildings.
• Need to know about possible grants and permissions?
• Feel free to drop in anytime during the afternoon
Port Sunlight Church Hall, off Bridge Street, Port Sunlight
To find out more contact
Matthew Crook, 606 2121
or email builtconservation@wirral.gov.uk
Sun 31st Oct 10am to 2pm
Hoylake Local Food Fair
Meet real producers selling what they produce locally. Enjoy fresh, local fruits and vegetables, eggs, cheese, honey, meats, cakes, and baked goods and lots more!
Hoylake Community Centre Hoyle Road, Hoylake CH47 3AG
Email ttwk.food@gmail.com or telephone 625 0608 or go to www.wirralfood.org.uk to find out more.
Tree Care Campaign
- March to September
Seed Gathering Season
- 23 Sep to 23 Oct
National Tree Week
- 27 Nov to 5 Dec
More info on all these on www.treecouncil.org.uk
What is WEN?
Wirral
Environmental Network is 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.
General enquiries / FairTrade: info@la21.net
Community RePaint: jim@la21.net
Gardening courses: janet@la21.net
Finance: phil@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.