Save The Ribble - Details

Listing ID: 1541

Title: Save The Ribble

Description: A blog dedicated to preserving the beauty of the River Ribble. The campaign opposes the Riverworks vision to build a barrage on the river and develop adjacent green spaces.

Category: Environment : Micro Activists

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listed on: July 29, 2008 10:02:42 PM

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It's Earth Day - and Save The Ribble Listed 21st in the Top 50 Sites to Help You Live Green - Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:57:00 +0000

It's OfficialEarth Day- make a pledge to yourself to do your bit(leave the car at home and walk to work/the shop/see your friends at least once a week, turn everything except the fridge off for an hour once a week/day...)and take time out to look around you and appreciate what a precious world we have. On these spring mornings in Broadgate and Penwortham, the Ribble echoes with the cries of Redshank in small flocks now, abandoning their usual solitary Winter habits as they band together ready to leave for their breeding grounds. And on the Ribbleside Country Park the willows are heavy with catkins and bees, and the first trees are sprouting their spring growth, and over the River in Avenham and Miller Parks the magnolia are blooming. Spend Earth Day down by the Ribble - walking to work, or enjoying a lunchtime or evening stroll - relaxation doesn't get any better than this! A Perfect Day made even better asSave The Ribblehave been listed21stin thetop 50 Great Sites to Help You Live Greenon theEnvironmental Degrees Website. Enjoying Spring Time by the Ribble?Email us at savetheribble at tiscali dot co dot uk.

New Blog: Preston Green Centre - Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:13:00 +0000

Our planet, as well as our local environment faces unprecented ecological challenges, rooted in our economic and social system. Awareness of this is growing, and new groups and blogs are springing up. One such blog is the Preston Green Centre blogathttp://prestongreencentre.blogspot.com/which has a specific aim: to establish a real physical space in Preston (possibly on Friargate) where greenminded people from all kinds of backgrounds can gather together, think, plan and act together. They have a dream of a place that sells organic fairtrade coffee, and locally produced food. To get such a physical space will require a lot of cooperation, funds, energy and people, in the meantime the Preston Green Centre Blog provides a virtual space where those environmentally conscious Prestonians can come together. I've heard rumours of a facebook page too! We're very much looking forward to seeing how the Preston Green Centre blog develops. Let's hope they have every success in their project.

Waiting List Closed for Preston Allotments - Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:29:00 +0000

Preston City Council hasclosed it's waiting lists for allotments,and is subdividing plots and jacking up the fees. Running an allotment is a brilliant pastime for anyone who wants to get healthy by working hard in the open air, eating cheap fresh organic vegetables and by meeting a community of like minded people. There is still plenty of unused land held by public sector institutions, the city and county councils, the NHS, the civil service, even the army. Why can't some of this land be turned over so that local people can start growing their own food with a zero carbon footprint? Of course, if these institutions were to hand over such plots to locals, the potential value of the land to private developers would plummet,,,