2020 has been the year that forced us to stop. A global pandemic, extreme weather, forest fires. This year’s WWF Living Planet Report into the state of nature has just been published and can be found here. It’s not happy reading, but it emphasises how fundamentally important it is that we work together address the […]
REG’s meeting Tuesday 28th July 2020 at 7.30 pm is being held virtually via “zoom”. The meeting is open to all REG members and any interested people. Our speaker is Councillor Katherine Field, Rother District Councillor lead for Climate Change. She will be speaking on ” Climate Emergency and Rother DC-zero” by 2030. She will […]
Please see our formal response to Rother District Council’s consultation on their Draft Environment Strategy 2020–2030 here. Thank you to all our members who contributed to our response, your input was greatly appreciated. Overall we are delighted that the Council is proposing this strategy and arestrongly and enthusiastically supportive of the intentions. We look forward to the […]
Members of REG will have the opportunity to help inform REG’s response to the Council’s draft Environmental Strategy consultation by way of a zoom meeting next Monday (4 May). The meeting will open at 7:15 for a 7:30 start. The zoom meeting invite will be sent out to members this week. To be prepared for […]
Meetings Cancelled The coronavirus is still with us and the restrictions on movement and gatherings look like they will be with us for a while yet. So regrettably our meetings planned for 29 April (Making Our Homes More Efficient) and 26 May (A talk on trees) have been cancelled. Meetings via ZOOM However, this does […]
On Wednesday March 11th we will be showing the film Merchants of Doubt in the Silver room of The Kino, Rye. This is the first in our new quarterly film nights @ The Kino – Many thanks to The Kino for their support! Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists […]
REG’s programme of events have unfortunately been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, and we have had to cancel, postpone, or move our activities online. We are have a virtual event planned for October and hopefully will host one in November also, we will keep you updated here and via members’ email when these are confirmed. […]
Big Beach Clean – Rye Harbour (25/01/2020) Saturday, 25th January 2020 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM New! Monthly litter picks for the whole family, helping to remove plastics and other litter from the marine environment. Litter pickers and bags provided, please bring gloves if you have them. Meet at Rye Harbour Discovery Centre No booking […]
Rother Environmental Group AGM will take place at 7pm on Tuesday 28th January 2020, at the St Mary’s Centre, Lion Street, Rye (next to the Kino). After the AGM business there will be two presentations / talks. Firstly, a brief introduction to the re-wilding project at Knepp Castle, West Sussex by Nigel Jennings. It is hoped […]
Guest post by REG member Marian Harding. The opinions voiced here are not necessarily those of REG – comments welcome! Anyone come across the ‘ditch dairy’ vegan campaign? It featured so prominently on my radar earlier this year that I felt in need of counselling! However it doesn’t seem to have been taken very seriously […]
