“Working with the community in Cranleigh and surrounding villages to take positive action against climate change!”
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- Upcoming events
- We are a Co-op local good cause!
- Take the Cranleigh Climate Action Challenge!
- Energy advice in the library: climate café
- Useful links
- Past events
- About us
Upcoming events
Our next three events will be: a pop-up on Cranleigh High Street May 17th 10am-12pm, then June 8th as part of Great Big Green Week. Cranleigh Carnival is on June 28th. We will be seeking volunteers to help set up and run a Library of Things for Cranleigh, so we will come with information on where we are with it.
Co-op local community fund
Cranleigh Climate Action has been selected as one of our local Co-op “good causes”. The amount we get will depend on how many Co-op members choose us.
We are trying to raise money to start up a Library of things. So if you are a member of the Co-op, please choose us here!
It doesn’t matter where you are in the country you can still choose us! And if you’re not yet a member, you can always join…!
Cranleigh Climate Action Challenge
We created Cranleigh Climate Challenge Pledges because we believe we can’t leave it to others to respond to the climate emergency, and that we need to act.
We’ve identified 6 areas where we can reduce our personal impact on the climate: transport, food, at home, stuff we buy and use, nature, and the influence we have on others.
We’re personally pledging to act across those areas, and encouraging everyone in or around Cranleigh to join us.
To explore ideas for your own changes, visit bit.ly/CranleighPledges.
Energy advice at the Climate Cafe In Cranleigh Library
Next Climate Cafés: (All Tuesdays) 18th February, 18th March and 15th April.
We are normally in Cranleigh Library from 10.30am to 12.30pm on the third Tuesday of the month and will help you find some answers to your energy questions.
Come along and make sure that your home is the most energy efficient it can be.
The library is a Warm Welcome Venue, where you can drop in, warm up, grab yourself a drink and read a book, go online or chat to others there – and the brilliant Climate Action team are just waiting to say hello!
Useful links
We are sometimes asked for information about climate change or advice on living more sustainably. There is a lot of information out there, but how do you know who you can trust?
What is climate change and how do we know?
UK Met Office: What is climate change?
Nasa – Facts: evidence, causes, effects.
We have found these resources to be particularly helpful in daily life:
WWF carbon footprint calculator
Centre for Alternative Technology
and locally:
Natural Life health food shop
For Earth’s Sake plastic-free refill shop
Some really good podcasts:
BBC world service “The Climate Question”
Rare Earth with Helen Czerski and Tom Heap
Prefer to watch something? Try these:
earth.org/best-environmental-films
Past events
Climate Pop-up launched!
On 26th October we launched our new monthly Climate Pop-up events on Cranleigh High Street, outside Boots.
Our County Councillor, Liz Townsend who facilitated our present funding, was our guest of honour.
Our guest member, Peter Jones, a local beekeeper was there as our star attraction this month with lots of ideas on how to optimise our gardens to help the pollinators we rely on to thrive.
Visit to Elmbridge
Cranleigh Climate Action had a really interesting and positive visit to Elmbridge in August 2024. We met the lively and very active Sustainability Working Group and were extremely impressed by their achievements and plans. Their allotments and the work (and fun!) going on there is focussed on sustainability and supporting nature.
In future we intend to plan some joint activities; we will get invitations to their meetings and the talks they put on and we are invited to hold pop-up events there.
The Elmbridge group is affiliated to Cranleigh Climate Action and we are sure to have a fruitful time working together.
Cranleigh Carnival
We had a stall at the carnival on 29th June 2024 with a quiz for adults based on Mike Berners-Lee’s book “How bad are bananas?” and a game for children balancing penguins on a melting iceberg!
How we started…
At a meeting on 13th June 2023 in Cranleigh Village Sports and Social Club members agreed to upgrade Cranleigh Climate Action to an official body: an unincorporated association.
“Cranleigh’s carbon footprint per household is larger than the national average”. That’s what members learned from Mark, from Zero Carbon Guildford. He went on to explain that Cranleigh’s consumption of goods and services was the culprit – with a higher consumption of goods and services than the national average. “Reduce, repair, reuse, recycle,” should be our watchwords he advised.
The Climate Action group aim to support the community in Cranleigh and the surrounding villages to reduce emissions of all sorts of greenhouse gasses to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2030 and eventually become a Climate Positive village.
Lynda, elected as chair, quoted Greta Thunberg. “She said that there isn’t one solution for our changing climate but what is needed is to change the conversation” – and “that” Lynda continued “is what Cranleigh Climate Action aims to do –organising small and maybe bigger projects to help residents and businesses locally make the changes we need to reduce all harmful emissions and to make our village more resilient to the changing climate.”
Members discussed their initial projects, including a community fridge, monitoring air quality and a “reduce, recycle”fashion show together with Cranleigh’s wonderful charity shops amongst other initiatives.
Administrator:
About us:
Cranleigh Climate Action was set up in 2019, and became an unincorporated association in June 2023. Our aim is to support the community in Cranleigh and surrounding villages to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2030 and to become a Climate Positive Village by:
- disseminating information and promoting action on climate change,
- carrying out local activities to mitigate the effects of climate change, and to improve resilience,
- working with other local organisations and businesses to achieve these ends.
Contact us at CranleighClimateAction@gmail.com