Repair café details

2025-6 Repair Cafés Following on from the pilot Cafe last October, Christ Church Parish is partnered with Wanstead Climate Action to host four Repair Cafés in Wanstead in 2025. The next is on Saturday 29 November 2025 from 10.30-1pm at Christ Church Hall, Wanstead. Now is the chance to fix clothes and gadgets that have been hangingContinue reading “Repair café details”

Hello subscribers – and plastic action bonus content

Firstly, hello to our few WordPress subscribers. Hope you enjoy getting email notifications of Wanstead Climate Action’s occasional blog posts. Some of you we know, and some we don’t. Just to be clear, we don’t get around to putting very much on the blog at the moment, and instead our regular communication is via aContinue reading “Hello subscribers – and plastic action bonus content”

Go wild in your garden

Welcome to Wanstead Climate Action – if you’ve not been in touch before, please subscribe to our email list, email us, and/or follow us on Facebook, X/Twitter and Instagram. And if you’re free on Saturday 22 June 2024, please sign up to come with us to the big Restore Nature Now march starting in HydeContinue reading “Go wild in your garden”

A Vicious Circle: Climate Change and Pesticide Use

This paper was presented at Wanstead Climate Action meeting, 1st August 2023 by Pesticide Free Redbridge pesticidefreeredbridge@btinternet.com Pesticide use increases climate change Climate change increases pesticide use Climate change makes pesticide use even more toxic There is an alternative: Eliminating pesticide use will enhance green spaces in our cities and increase climate resilience ‘Thriving greenContinue reading “A Vicious Circle: Climate Change and Pesticide Use”

WCA calls for 6,000 new green jobs in Redbridge and Waltham Forest

Over 6,100 jobs could be created in Waltham Forest and Redbridge across green infrastructure and care work in the next two years. Working with the Green New Deal UK campaign, we are calling for all local MPs to support sufficient government investment in energy efficiency, renewables, R&D and care work. 1.2m green jobs could beContinue reading “WCA calls for 6,000 new green jobs in Redbridge and Waltham Forest”