Many of us will be wishing our homes were a bit warmer as the winter weather bites. In Autumn 2020, MHSG put together a set of webinars on greening your home, featuring green technologies, cost-effective measures to improve the efficiency of your home, and our very popular virtual green home tours. You can find these webinars on our Youtube channel. … [Read more...]
Looking forward to 2021
What will 2021 hold for climate action? COP26 - the UN Climate Conference – will be held in Glasgow in November. The conference was planned for 2020, and five years on from the Paris Agreement, countries are expected to rachet up their ‘nationally determined contributions’ – how much they intend to reduce their carbon emissions by 2030. Ambitious targets have recently … [Read more...]
A green Christmas assembly
MHSG member and local teacher Joanna Sarri has put together this brilliant 'ready-made' assembly power point presentation, to promote the message of sustainability over the festive period. We've sent round to all of our local schools. … [Read more...]
Wear Green this Christmas
You may be considering buying something new to wear, perhaps to wear to MHSG's online Christmas party on Tuesday 15th December:) But how can we do that without fuelling devastating impact the clothing industry is having on people and planet, highlighted in our Sustainable Fashion webinar earlier this year?MHSG member Tito has come up with some fun and … [Read more...]
Best local options for sustainable food
We’ve put together a list of options for buying more sustainably – we’ve checked each out for reduced packaging, local food or organic products, and put together a comparison chart. … [Read more...]
Green Homes Online 2020: Join our webinar on Mon 9th Nov to unravel green home technologies – insulation, heat pumps, solar panels and smart meters
Our latest online Green Homes event on Monday proved how useful a Zoom event can be - while needs must.. Nearly 30 people gained inspiration from a virtual tour of Lucy Craig and Gordon Best's retrofitted 1980s timber frame detached house, and contributed to the lively Q&A session which followed. You can watch - or rewatch - the tour, plus the first of the series (of … [Read more...]