Hampshire community action
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Hampshire.
‘No gear, all the ideas’: the farming collective offering up land to sustainable businesses, positive.news (Oct 28, 2024)
- Ministers accused of ‘environmental crime’ over South Downs oil drilling, theguardian.com (Aug 23, 2023)
Networks and sustainability initiatives[edit | edit source]
Events[edit | edit source]
Regular events
1st Saturday of every month (except January) Southampton Repair Cafe
Community involvement[edit | edit source]
Have Your Say Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
Hampshire has its own County Youth Council and is an independent youth-run organisation. It meets once a month around Hampshire and aims to give the young people of Hampshire a voice. It also has numerous district and borough youth councils including Basingstoke's "Basingstoke & Deane Youth Council". W
Community and voluntary action[edit | edit source]
Green Hampshire help preserve and conserve the environment, both built and natural, for future generations.
Food activism[edit | edit source]
Curb, the The Real Junk Food Project, Southampton - Futurefarms, a co-operative from the village of Martin - Hampshire Fare - New Forest Food Challenge - Southampton Seed Swap - Southampton Sustainable Food Partnership on facebook
Resources
Policies
Food growing, Supplementary Planning Document – draft portsmouth.gov.uk
more video: Hale Village Market
Community energy[edit | edit source]
Basingstoke Energy Services Co-op - Hampshire Renewable Energy Co-operative - West Solent Solar Co-operative
The centre of Southampton is located above a large hot water aquifer that can provide Geothermal power to some of the city's buildings. This energy is processed at a plant in the centre of the West Quay region in Southampton city centre and is the only geothermal power station in the UK. The plant provides private electricity for the Port of Southampton and hot water to a city centre district heating scheme. In a 2006 survey of carbon emissions in major UK cities conducted by British Gas, Southampton was ranked as being one of the lowest carbon emitting cities in the United Kingdom...wikipedia:Southampton#Energy.
WinACC factsheets on saving energy
Arts, sport and culture[edit | edit source]
Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle[edit | edit source]
- Share (Portsmouth), making it "easier for people to reduce carbon, waste and raw material use through sharing, repairing and re-use", initially via two projects, including Repair Café Portsmouth. added 14:27, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
- Southampton Repair Cafe
Apps for sustainability
Climate action[edit | edit source]
- Portsmouth Climate Action Board, working to transform Portsmouth, added 17:41, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
- Climate Conversations, Southampton
- Winchester Action on Climate Change
Sustainable transport activism[edit | edit source]
The Basingstoke Canal has been extensively restored, and is now navigable for most of its route. However its usage is currently still limited by low water supply and conservation issues. W W
- The River Wey and Wey Navigations Community Site – a non-commercial site of over 200,000 words all about the adjacent Wey Navigation with a section about the Basingstoke Canal
Recreational walks in Hampshire W
Cycling activism[edit | edit source]
Education for sustainability[edit | edit source]
Minstead Study Centre - The Sustainability Centre
Biodiversity[edit | edit source]
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust
Restoration of the Itchen Navigation, linking Southampton and Winchester, primarily as a wildlife corridor, began in 2008. W
Open spaces[edit | edit source]
Hampshire contains two national parks; the New Forest is wholly within the county, and the South Downs National Park embraces parts of Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex. W
Hampshire contains all its green belt in the New Forest district, in the southwest of the county, from the boundary with Dorset along the coastline to Lymington and northwards to Ringwood. Its boundary is contiguous with the New Forest National Park. Its function is to control expansion in the South East Dorset conurbation and outlying towns and villages. W
News and comment[edit | edit source]
2014-2022
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight hosepipe ban from 5 August, BBC News (Jul 29, 2022)
- Appeal for water customers to be mindful when turning on the tap, southeastwater.co.uk (Jul 11, 2022) — South East Water is asking people to be mindful of the amount of water they are using as hot temperatures push up demand beyond levels expected for the time of year. Water latest, southeastwater.co.uk
- Millions of native oysters to be returned to the Solent, Apr 20, 2017...The Guardian
- Projects leading the way for a more sustainable future in Hampshire, Nov 28, 2016...hampshire-life.co.uk
- The best thing since sliced bread - A Sustainable Food Partnership for Southampton, Mar 22, 2016...@cchangesoton
- Transition: Live and Unleashed in the New Forest! October 24, 2014.
About Hampshire[edit | edit source]
Past events'
- Oct 22 - November 12, 2021, Portsmouth Climate Festival
- Mar 9, 2017, Have Your Say, public open day, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
- September 19 - 27, 2015, Basingstoke Green Week
- May 25, 2015, Environmental Rock 2015, on LocalWiki
- March 7, 2015, Sustainability Festival, Southampton Hub
- February 8, 2015, 9th Southampton Seed Swap
- September 20 - 27, 2014, Basingstoke Green Week
- May 11, 2014, South Downs Green Fair
- March 9, 2014, Alton Green Open Homes 2014
Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, Dorset to the west, and Wiltshire to the north-west. The city of Southampton is the largest settlement.
The county has an area of 3,769 km2 (1,455 sq mi) and a population of 1,844,245, making it the 5th-most populous in England. The South Hampshire built-up area in the south-east of the county has a population of 855,569 and contains the cities of Southampton (269,781) and Portsmouth (208,100). In the north-east, the Farnborough/Aldershot conurbation extends into Berkshire and Surrey and has a population of 252,937. The next-largest settlements are Basingstoke (113,776), Andover (50,887), and Winchester (45,184). The centre and south-west of the county are rural. For local government purposes Hampshire comprises a non-metropolitan county, with eleven districts, and two unitary authority areas: Portsmouth and Southampton. The county historically contained the towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch, which are now part of Dorset, and the Isle of Wight.
Undulating hills characterise much of the county. A belt of chalk crosses the county from north-west, where it forms the Hampshire Downs, to south-east, where it is part of the South Downs. The county's major rivers rise in these hills; the Loddon and Wey drain north, into the Thames, and the Itchen and Test flow south into Southampton Water, a large estuary. In the south-east are Portsmouth Harbour, Langstone Harbour, and the western edge of Chichester Harbour, three large rias. The south-west contains the New Forest, which includes pasture, heath, and forest and is of the largest expanses of ancient woodland remaining in England.
