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Here you can read and comment on articles from our Planet Shaftesbury bloggers. These include notes made after significant meetings, all in reverse chronological order.

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Shaftesbury 2030: Choosing Our Future. Some personal reflections.

Photo: Brie Logan This was probably Planet Shaftesbury’s most ambitious and complex event so far undertaken, and credit to Karen, Rachel,...

Richard Foreman

May 21, 2022

COP26 - 6 months on ...

Another share from Adam Vaughan, author of the Fix the Planet newsletter from New Scientist, this one on the day that we host the...

Rachel Bodle

May 19, 2022

STOPPWI Campaign Support

A follow up from the campaign We had a stall at the TUC Dorchester Event that was rained off yesterday leaving us with a well prepared...

Rachel Bodle

May 1, 2022

When net zero means not zero

This latest 'Fix the Planet' newsletter from Adam Vaughan at New Scientist seems worth sharing ... Hi. Have you ever wondered if...

Rachel Bodle

Feb 10, 2022

Planet Shaftesbury: 20-01-2022

This was a small online session which barely scratched the surface of our meeting theme - Permaculture, Transition & Planet Shaftesbury....

Rachel Bodle

Jan 23, 2022

Planet Shaftesbury: 16-12-21

This last meeting of 2021 followed meetings where we'd talked about ways of being more of a 'presence' in the town, considered the UN...

Rachel Bodle

Jan 3, 2022

New Scientist assesses outcomes from COP26

I'm sharing the latest and last in New Scientist's COP26 newsletters from Adam Vaughan. Adam ends by quoting Greta Thunberg in what could...

Rachel Bodle

Nov 17, 2021

Extract New Scientist: Countdown to COP26

I don't share every one of these New Scientist newsletters - but thought I'd share this one. It had the sub-title 'Is the UK net zero...

Rachel Bodle

Oct 24, 2021

Rupert Read suggests development of a 'moderate flank' to climate/ecological activism.

In an article written for the Green House Think Tank, Extinction Rebellion founder member and frequent spokesperson Rupert Read suggests...

Richard Foreman

Sep 16, 2021

Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show, 18/19-8

Struggling to complete the construction of our gazebo in strong winds, an intrepid team from Planet Shaftesbury, Greener Gillingham and...

Richard Foreman

Aug 31, 2021

Planet Shaftesbury: 19-8-21

Photo from recent Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show display. It has been strange, this cautious and careful return to meeting in person...

Richard Foreman

Aug 23, 2021

New Scientist comment on latest from the IPCC

Adam Vaughan of New Scientist publishes a periodic climate change newsletter 'Fix the Planet'. This week his newsletter follows Monday’s...

Rachel Bodle

Aug 12, 2021

Ecosystem Collapse, what is it and what does it mean for Dorset?

This online talk (15th July) from Professor Adrian Newton of Bournemouth University did not attract a large crowd. That was a shame....

Rachel Bodle

Aug 11, 2021

Zooming with Bees

Once again, our thanks to Brigit Strawbridge Howard for her series of monthly Zoom talks for Planet Shaftesbury. The series began in...

Richard Foreman

Jun 21, 2021

Is this the right path to net zero?

This newsletter from the New Scientist popped into my inbox whilst I was wrapping up the May newsletter. I found I wanted to share it in...

Rachel Bodle

May 21, 2021

HS2 Ecocide - Campaign Video

Thanks to Jocelyn Elson-Riggins for passing this on (and apologies for delay). She writes: Blaize O'Callahan has been campaigning to...

Richard Foreman

Apr 19, 2021

Our Collective Response to Dorset Council's Strategy for the Climate and Ecological Emergency

Here (thanks to David Brown) is a document that summarises the views collected from participants in Planet Shaftesbury weekly Zoom...

Ed Bersey

Mar 22, 2021

Welcoming the Swifts

Thanks again to Catherine Simmonds for passing on the link below. ‘Derbyshire swift group have made available a recent webinar by Edward...

Richard Foreman

Mar 20, 2021

Climate Change - The Technological Response

Thanks to Arthur for bringing this to our attention. It's the blurb for a talk given at Messums in Tisbury on 3rd March. It's quite...

Richard Foreman

Mar 4, 2021

Disinvestment by banks from fossil fuel company shares – does it make a difference?

In a recent conversation with a good friend, we turned to the subject of the high street banks and their involvement in fossil fuels. My...

Ed Bersey

Jan 26, 2021