We’ve just signed an open letter calling on the Welsh Government to act on microplastics...

We’ve just signed an open letter calling on the Welsh Government to act on microplastics.

Click for more information at the FOE site

Did you know microplastics from the clothes we wear make up 35% of plastic pollution? Microplastic pollution is harming life in our seas and on land and now growing evidence suggests it is harming us too.

We’d love it if you could take a minute to read the open letter and sign the Senedd petition asking the Welsh Government to draw up a Microplastics Action Plan for Wales.

Open letter here:

https://foe.cymru/organisations-demand-action-microplastics-wales

Rydyn ni newydd arwyddo llythyr agored yn galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i weithredu ar ficroblastigau.

Oeddech chi'n gwybod bod microblastigau o'r dillad rydyn ni'n eu gwisgo yn cyfrif am 35% o lygredd plastig? Mae llygredd microplastig yn niweidio bywyd yn ein moroedd ac ar dir ac erbyn hyn mae tystiolaeth gynyddol yn awgrymu ei fod yn ein niweidio ni hefyd.

Byddem wrth ein bodd pe gallech gymryd munud i ddarllen y llythyr agored a llofnodi deiseb y Senedd yn gofyn i Lywodraeth Cymru lunio Cynllun Gweithredu Microblastigau i Gymru.

https://foe.cymru/cy/sefydliadau%20yn%20galw%20am%20weithredu%20ar%20ficroblastigau%20yng%20Nghymru

Petition - Save our heritage

Save Our Heritage

Ruperra Castle Preservation Trust is petitioning the Senedd/Welsh Parliament to make Conservation Management Plans compulsory for Scheduled Monuments at risk, to avoid neglect and subsequent loss.

There are 4,000 Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Wales. 14.5 % are at risk but there are currently no plans to attend to them.
 
Sign and share the petition before it closes on 18 July 2023 - 10,000 signatures are needed to be considered for a debate in the Senedd.

We have over 6000 signatures now which include 2000 paper ones. Please help to boost them…

Download the paper petition (Word)

Download the poster (PDF)

Watch - System change through design in 300 seconds

System change through design in 300 seconds | Jude Sherry & Dr Frank O'Connor

With the insight of Dr Frank O'Connor, Founder, anois 🗣️: "Let's be the ones who actually take responsibility. Let's be the ones who show the way forward"

& Jude Sherry, anois 🗣️: "We're at best place to show that if we can make changes in that and lead the way in that, we can actually show other countries it is possible to make a substantial shift in the direction that we're currently taking"

In 2031, the Royal Dublin Society will celebrate its 300th anniversary. For this occasion, we want to give Irish and international thought leaders 300 seconds to inspire change, recognising opportunities in their individual area of expertise addressing the climate change challenge of the next decade and beyond.

For this series, arranged by the RDS Enterprise Committee under the Vision 2030 series, we have identified key voices who are recognised drivers for change within their own areas of expertise and experience.

Their unique insight and vision to deliver in these times of challenge can be a valuable catalyst for change. By sharing what drives their own passion to deliver a more sustainable enterprise, economy or society, they can inspire us all to make the big and small changes necessary as the window for addressing the challenges of climate change shrinks.

For more information visit https://www.rds.ie/rds-foundation/ent...

Sustainable Wales Patrons

Update to the Who We Are page 26th June 2023:

SUSTAINABLE WALES PATRONS,

‘GREEN AGENDA’ and ‘RADICAL AGENDAS’

Arrival in the Green Room of Hilary Llewellyn Williams on JUNE 30 to share her recent writings, gives Margaret and myself the opportunity to make a brief statement about the original patrons of this charity.

Hilary was invited to become a patron because of her writing. Other patrons included Jonathon Porritt, Edward Goldsmith, Dafydd Iwan, John Barnie, and Angharad Tomos.

These people were selected for their enthusiasm for ‘radical’ causes, including ‘environmentalism’, ‘language campaigning’ and ‘literature’.

We were very influenced by organisations such as Friends of the Earth (after all, we created FoE Cymru), CND, Cymdeithas yr Iaith and Wales Anti Apartheid. Also, we took part in support for the Miners’ Strike of 1984/5, and this was another factor for the creation of Sustainable Wales Cymru Gynaliadwy.

Our anthology ‘Gorwelion/Shared Horizons’ is thus linked to volumes such as CND Cymru’s ‘Glas Nos’ and the Anti Apartheid anthology of writings of 1986.

In 1994, FoE Cymru and Seren Books published ‘Green Agenda: essays on the Environment of Wales’, edited by myself, with contributions from writers and lecturers such as Alwyn Jones, himself a focus for the ‘Welsh Bacc’ essays now being judged, and initiated in 2022.

To celebrate the 30 years anniversary of ‘Green Agenda’, Seren will publish ‘Radical Agendas’ in late 2024, a look forward to what might transpire ‘radically’ in coming years, and demonstrate how ‘radical’ issues in Wales have broadened.