Kilcullen Community 4 Climate Action

Introduction  Humans can barely survive three days without water.  It is a necessity to keeping us alive. Yet, we are not treating it with the respect it deserves.  We are polluting it more and more every day. What are we doing to our water 70% of the earth is made up of water, however only 3% is actually drinkable. Two thirds of that drinkable water is frozen, which doesn’t leave us with much. Yet we are putting 12 million tonnes of plastic into our water each year and over 9,400 gallons of water is wasted every year. Agriculture alone uses 70% of our water but around 60% is wasted, through careless handling or damaged irrigation systems. Fertilisers   flow from farms polluting rivers and lakes. Then there are the chemicals that leak into water from washing our clothes and dyes from clothes production.  The current and future effects  In 2021 it was estimated that 2 billion people don’t have access to clean water and water scarcity is only going to get wor...

  So what is the Circular Economy?  (Image by Freepik) Put simply, it's based around the idea that we move from a linear model of production and consumption, where we produce, buy, use and discard, to a more circular and sustainable process where we reuse, repair, share, and essentially try to extend the lifespan of products. The move towards a more circular economy involves lots of different parts of society, like industry, technology, business, etc. but it's also something that we can all incorporate into our own lives. And that's where Treasure Town comes in!  Our aim is to show all the 'treasure' that is around us in our local area and to encourage people to think of reusing and repairing, or swapping and sharing, rather than buying completely new products.  There are lots of reasons to try and reduce the amount of new things we buy - every product that is completely new has incorporated materials and resources (like water or energy usage) which contribute to ca...

We were delighted to welcome a varied group of people to our recent event ‘Re-imagining Community Climate Action’ which was held in Kilcullen library on the 1 st March.  Davie Philip and Oscar Mooney from Cultivate facilitated the workshop and it kicked off with us discussing in pairs what our concerns for the world were.  Naturally climate was at the forefront of topics that came up, with many people feeling that we are not doing enough to prepare for future climate events. Then Davie spoke about the Erasmus funded ‘Community Climate Coaches’ program. This program is developing a system to train, support and enable community facilitators, mentors, and animators across Europe.   Key to the program is an integration of all the different strands of community, encompassing climate action, social justice, just transition and a more holistic look at how we work together as communities. Oscar spoke about Just Transition, which is a term originating with the Labour movemen...