Charlbury Green Hub

www.charlburygreenhub.org.uk

In March 2013, the Charlbury Area Waste Action Group changed its name to the Charlbury Green Hub with a new website www.charlburygreenhub.org.uk or the briefer URLs www.cghub.org.uk and www.chub.org.uk with links to us on Twitter and Facebook.

The website is continually updated so pay a visit regularly to see what's new, for example:
New events going on the calendar of events all the time e.g. guided tours of Westmill Wind Farm & Solar Park, visits to Wytham Woods, Witney Food & Drink Festival, Wild & Precious mindfulness retreat in Charlbury, local asparagus goes on sale etc
10/05/13 - Peace@ThePub update
10/05/13 - Energy update
01/05/13 - Waste update
25/04/13 - Climate Change update
25/04/13 - Food update
22/04/13 - Stuff update about consumption and climate change
12/04/13 - Happiness update
12/04/13 - Resources - Food update
01/04/13 - Holidays update
30/03/13 - Footpath Network update and photos of Palm Sunday walk through Wychwood in the snow
19/03/13 - Travel update
19/03/13 - Litter update

Things you can do

The calendar on the new website covers interesting environmental/sustainable/ethical events happening in Charlbury and beyond.

Find out more about the new Green Deal, there are opportunities for free energy surveys: register with WODC

Continuing CAWAG Activities

All of CAWAG's activities are continuing, the Bring & Takes in March and October and the Charlbury Sharecroppers redistribution of apples in the autumn with the cider making for the Beer Festival. We'll also continue to organise things like secure paper shredding, tool sharpening, bike repairs and collecting things like bras, spectacles, CDs, and cassette tapes for reuse or recycling - bring them along to the Bring & Takes or to our stall at the Farmers Market.

New Wider Aims

The aim of this hub is to help local people and groups find their way around environmental issues, to share their experiences and to spread Charlbury's good ideas to other communities in Oxfordshire. Our new website will be a good starting point for you to find out more about our local countryside, food, energy, travel, and the wider implications for our planet's limited resources and climate change. We provide a list of things that can be shared by other groups or individuals in Charlbury so that we can work together better as a sharing community . . . and save money and resources in the process.

History of CAWAG

CAWAG started in 1997 and was one of the first members of the Oxfordshire Community Action Group network which originally concentrated on waste. But times and issues move on, and now we are one of about 50 community groups in the Oxfordshire network all taking action on climate change, including waste reduction, carbon reduction, sustainable transport, and food, energy and water issues, to live a more sustainable and less resource dependent life in our local communities.