Planet Shaftesbury Monthly Meeting

The May meeting on Thursday 16th provides an opportunity to prepare for a new phase in Planet Shaftesbury activity.

Having emerged after an Extinction Rebellion presentation in early November, Planet Shaftesbury was launched at a mid-January talk on Climate Change by Gary Mantle, Chief Executive of Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. That means we’ve now been going for 6 months. We seem to be both encouraging, and benefiting from, an upsurge in public concern about climate breakdown and loss of species. We’ve established regular meetings and seen increasing numbers of people getting involved and making new connections.

Variously (and this is not a complete list), some of us have –

engaged with several of the London actions of Extinction Rebellion;

explored what we might do as local groups to reduce plastic waste, tackle biodiversity loss, or support us in living more sustainably;

arranged and drawn people in to an…