Please donate to the Emergency Fund for people and groups affected by the Calderdale Floods June 2012. This is a Community Foundation for Calderdale and Todmorden Lions project.
Main Halifax to Tod road through Hebden on Friday night
Outside what used to be the old Nutclough Tavern, and is now a housing coop where a bunch of Transition Town people live, Bear was busy sawing sticks.
This Directory has three main sections:
BUSINESSES AND COMMUNITY GROUPS
Biodiversity
Calderdale Badger Group
This group is set up for the protection of badgers in the Calderdale area. They campaign, lobby government, protect setts, and offer education. They are on facebook here.
Cromwell Bottom Wildlife Group
Here is the website for the Cromwell Bottom Nature Reserve, which aims to bring back wildlife into Calderdale. The Nature Reserve is at Elland Road, Brighouse HD6 2RG. This is in Lower Calder Valley so strictly speaking, shouldn’t be on this website but hey ho. The Wildlife Group is a membership organisation, their webpage is here
Upper Calderdale Wildlife Network is open to all wildlife enthusiasts. It helps to survey and protect wildlife and habitats in the Upper Calderdale area. They meet on the first Monday of the month at 7.30 p.m. in a Todmorden Pub. For info, contact Ms Penny Bennett, 01706-812480.
Buildings
A variety of groups, organisations and businesses can help with reducing buildings’ carbon emissions and increasing their resource efficiency and energy efficiency.
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Check out this webpage showing all the corporate sponsors of the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum – which “will provide a venue for business, industry and investors to meet with Governments, local authorities, civil society and UN entities – with 2,000 participants expected”
And then check out what the United Nations is offering the corporate sponsors.
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The Rio +20 People’s Summit is focussing on the problem that the United Nations, like many member states, seems to have effectively been captured by the private sector. The Climate Connections article says, “In the lead-up to the summit, major corporations positioning themselves to benefit from the market mechanisms being promoted have launched a greenwashing onslaught…”
You can download the new West Yorkshire Metro timetable (PDF file) for Hebden Bridge & Todmorden here.
Here’s WY Metro info that The free bus service has been extended to 29th June for all journeys on Hebden Bridge services A, B, C. D & E and Todmorden services T1, T2, T3, T4, T5 T6, T8 & T9, FlexiBus services 1 & 2 and service 906, because of the recent poor service during the transition from the Tyrer Bus contract.
If you have problems with poor public transport, you can use FixMyTransport website to report it to the transport operator. You can use this site to contact any transport operator in the UK – the website admin people will send your message direct to the transport operator’s Customer Services department. They put your message online, too. That way, others can read your problems, and offer support and advice.
Shareable has a reminder of the work of Elinor Ostrom, a political science researcher who identified how commons-based economies work effectively and the first (and so far only) woman to win the Nobel Prize for economists.
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For the first time at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the official UK delegation to Rio+20 includes business representatives. Presumably they are on the delegation because their companies – Aviva and Unilever – are ethical and use sustainable procurement and production methods.
The delegates from Unilever are Paul Polman, Chief Executive, and Migeul Pestana, Vice President, Global External Affairs. Aviva Investors has sent their Chief Executive, Paul Abberley and Dr Steve Waygood, Chief Responsible Investment Officer.
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Pablo Solon, Director of Focus on the Global South, argues that the European Union’s pursuit of “the green economy” isn’t a solution for Rio+20.
This is the view of Sanlakas Youth UP Diliman:
