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 […]
Jointly organised by Rother Environmental Group and Bexhill Environmental Group, on Wednesday 30 October 2019, Dr Geoff Rayner gave a fascinating talk on ‘Diet and Nutrition Transition and Planetary and Public Health’. There were 3 key themes: Human nutrition – We are what we eat Food growing – with wildlife in mind Climate breakdown – […]
Rother Environmental Group’s AGM has been postponed due to the Rye Hustings. The AGM will now take place on Tuesday 28th January 2020, venue TBC. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this decision may cause, however we strongly encourage all members to attend the Hustings to express their concern about the Climate and Ecological crisis […]
On 23 July we have arranged for a guided tour of RSPB Dungeness, the RSPB’s oldest extant nature reserve. The first land was acquired in 1930 with the reserve formed in 1932. It now occupies nearly 4 square miles of Dungeness (Europe’s largest shingle habitat) and is home to a host of wildlife including birds, […]
On 25 June we have a talk about the Campaign for Rural England (CPRE) from our very own Stephen Hardy. Stephen, who is a Trustee of REG, has also been a Trustee of CPRE Sussex for the past 7 years. As an organisation CPRE promotes the beauty, tranquillity and diversity of the countryside; seeks to […]
On the 23 April 2019, Dr Mike Pepler gave an alarming, yet inspiring talk to Rother Environment Group. The presentation laid bare the extreme urgency of the issue for everyone, and made suggestions for what we can ALL do above and beyond changing our own lifestyles. For anyone who couldn’t make it, Mike has kindly […]
We are pleased to confirm that an arrangement has been made with Veolia to visit their Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) located at Hollingdean, Brighton on 14 May 2019. This is a state-of-the-art facility that sorts bulk household waste from East Sussex and Brighton and Hove before being transported onwards to recycling, recovery and disposal facilities. […]
(Image copyright NASA) REG’s April meeting, on the 23rd, is a talk from fellow member Mike Pepler on Climate Change. Mike has a background in engineering but switched his focus to sustainability and renewables a few years ago and now works for the charity Ashden. Ashden’s mission is to accelerate the transformation of energy systems […]
