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Welcome to the TLCO Climate Action Padlet!

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Welcome to the TLCO Climate Action Padlet!

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Climate change is the single biggest threat facing humanity and is already impacting health and wellbeing in a number of ways.

As organisations working with the people of Trafford, we have a responsibility to do what we can to reduce our environmental impact, prepare our workplaces and ways of working for the future, and ready our health and care practice to support the health and well being of Trafford whatever comes our way.

In this Padlet we have brought together resources that we hope will encourage, inspire and practically guide you to making changes that can make a real difference.

Together, we can be the change Trafford needs for our environment and a healthy future.

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Heatwaves, droughts and floods have become a regular fixture in the news. In the leadup to 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (also known as COP26) more and more people are talking about 'climate anxiety'. We share some tips on how you can make a difference environmentally, whilst supporting your own mental health and wellbeing.

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What is 'Climate Anxiety', and what can you do about it? - Mental Health UK

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Heatwaves, droughts and floods have become a regular fixture in the news. In the leadup to 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (also known as COP26) more and more people are talking about 'climate anxiety'. We share some tips on how you can make a difference environmentally, whilst supporting your own mental health and wellbeing.

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Positive news for when the world seems too bleak

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Positive news for when the world seems too bleak

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Our small, dedicated team is passionate about building a better alternative to the negative news media. And there's never been a greater urgency to our mission.

To invest in producing all the solutions journalism that the world is longing for, we need funding. We're asking readers like you to get behind us by making a regular or one-off contribution as a Positive News supporter. Please back our team today and, together, we'll change the news for good.

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Positive News | Good journalism about good things

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Positive News is the first media organisation in the world dedicated to quality, independent reporting about what's going right

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Resurgence and Ecologist - holistic environmental wellbeing

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Resurgence and Ecologist - holistic environmental wellbeing

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Being an advocate provides an opportunity to network and get involved in sustainability action across MFT. We hold quarterly meetings with different presentations focused on environmental sustainability at MFT and you will receive a monthly bulletin. If you feel passionate about sustainable healthcare and want to get involved at MFT sign up

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Easily create surveys and polls to collect customer feedback, measure employee satisfaction, and organize team events.

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Every month a Sustainability Webinar covers a range of topics and projects from across MFT. Each webinar gives the opportunity to network and gain insight on how to improve patient care, save costs, reduce carbon and promote sustainable practice in your area of work. Earn one CPD point for attending. To join the webinar mailing list contact TimeToAct@mft.nhs.uk.

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How to find actions that are suited to your skills, hobbies and what needs to be done.

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Medact - health workers working for climate justice 

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Medact - health workers working for climate justice 

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We’re building the health movement for a transformative Green New Deal.

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A series of great resources around disability and the climate crisis.

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A project that "bears witness to the harms disabled people face amidst climate disruption - and it documents the wisdom disabled people bring to navigating this crisis. The stories in the archive are fresh conversations with disability-identified activists, advocates, artists, first responders, policymakers, and other communal leaders".

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Resources and news to help you Raise awareness and understanding of the links between health and climate change, help you advocate for better responses to climate change and strengthen policies that protect public health from climate change

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Our manifesto for the next general election presents five priorities for the new government to sustain our health, health and care services, and environment. Get involved with our campaign by taking action. Find out more here.

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The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare engages healthcare professionals, patients and wider community to understand the connections between health and environment, and to reduce healthcare's resource footprint. Join an online forum of peers and experts in sustainable healthcare.

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Since 2008, the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare has engaged healthcare professionals, patients and wider community to understand the connections between health and environment, and to reduce healthcare's resource footprint. The Centre offers strategic input and consultancy on sustainable healthcare research and practice.

Our Sustainable Specialties programme mainstreams sustainability within clinical areas so that it is integral to the planning of health systems and healthcare practice. The programme is supported by our work in medical education and in carbon modelling of clinical care.

Our Sustainable Networks Community is a free online resource where you can join an engaged online forum of peers and experts in sustainable healthcare.

Our green space projects, including our NHS Forest, assist organisations to improve their natural environment and reconnect their staff, patients and the wider community with their local green space to benefit their health.

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Since 2008, the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare has engaged healthcare professionals, patients and wider community to understand the connections between health and environment, and to reduce healthcare's resource footprint. The Centre offers strategic input and consultancy on sustainable healthcare research and practice.

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Ideas for taking climate action at home (Oxfam) 

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Inspired by some of the communities Oxfam works with around the globe, we’ve put together five ideas for taking action at home.

We can all play a vital role in saving our planet and its people.

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Join with others in tackling the climate crisis

Climate change is affecting millions of the world's poorest people, right now.

More frequent and extreme weather, like storms and droughts, are destroying homes, lives and livelihoods.

There is still hope but urgent action is needed now.

Inspired by some of the communities Oxfam works with around the globe, we've put together five ideas for taking action at home.

We can all play a vital role in saving our planet and supporting its people.

Learn-Think-Act

Learn about issues

Think about how to solve them

Act as responsible global citizens

1. Set your recycling creativity free

Reduce, reuse, recycle!

Go on a hunt for any empty packaging in the house such as cardboard boxes, bottle tops, foil. Make sure that items are clean and free from sharp edges.

Now get to work at making your waste masterpiece. Toys, games, musical instruments - the opportunities are endless!

The boy who sees treasure wherever he goes.

Martin and his friends live in Bidibidi, a giant refugee settlement in Uganda. They make toy cars from the things they find around them.

Think about the environmental issues of waste and packaging:

Reduce - How could people avoid using packaging? Repairing rather than replacing things is one way of buying less 'stuff'. Buying bulk items rather than lots of smaller ones is another option.

Reuse - What else could empty packaging be used for? For example, plastic bottles and rolls of newspaper could be used as plant pots. Empty glass jars could be used as food containers.

Recycle - What packaging can be recycled and what can't? How much of your household's weekly waste is non-recyclable? What do the different recycling symbols on household packaging mean.

What will you create from the 'rubbish' you find?

2. Harness the power of worms

Poo-eating worms!

Micro-organisms are an essential part of the composting process but other creatures such as worms also play an important role. Oxfam has been working with communities to provide specially designed toilets which use worms to decompose human poo and turn it into clean, safe fertiliser.

Toilets have been built in Sierra Leone. Similar ones have been used in camps in Myanmar, Ethiopia and Bangladesh. The aim is to build hundreds more!

3. Carry out a home energy audit

Go around your home and make a list of the different ways in which you use energy. For example to turn on lights, heat the house, cook, or power a phone or tablet.

You could print off the home energy audit activity sheet to use. Or else you could create your own table on a piece of paper to record your findings.

Now think of ways in which you and everyone in your household could use energy more efficiently. Write your ideas on the home energy audit activity sheet.

Maybe you could:

investigate ways to better insulate your home,

make little posters to remind people to turn off lights and appliances,

replace less efficient light bulbs with more efficient LED ones.

The Energy Saving Trust has lots of useful suggestions.

Perhaps you could take gas and electricity meter readings and then challenge your household to reduce your usage. Not only will you be helping to reduce your carbon footprint, you'll also save money at the same time!

4. Make do and mend

4% of global CO2 emissions are caused by the clothing and apparel industry.

When a pair of jeans is made new, an estimated 16.2kg of CO2e is emitted - the equivalent of driving over 58 miles in a car!

Switching from new to second hand clothes can make a big difference to your carbon footprint.

Every new thing we buy has a carbon footprint. Getting furniture, electricals and clothes repaired can give them a longer life and reduce your environmental impact.

Oxfam has been doing the reusing and reselling thing since the 1940s, when the first Oxfam shop opened.

Then, in 1974, Oxfam became the first national charity to develop its own facility for recycling and reusing clothes!

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Oxfam's clothes recycling centre

Wastesaver and it's partner CTR now handle 12,000 tonnes of textiles every year. First, the items make their way down huge conveyor belts; where our clothing experts sort through it by hand, to decide where it should go next. Next, the things are sent or sold on to the most suitable market.

At Oxfam, we work very hard to find a new use for every item of clothing you give. This includes being sold in our high street shops around the UK, on Oxfam's Online Shop, and to fashion designers who restyle garments and reuse fabrics. Damaged or low-grade items can be sold to recycling traders so they can, for instance, be turned into car soundproofing or mattress stuffing.

A few ideas for reducing the amount of 'stuff' in our world:

Have a clear out and put aside the clothes, books and toys you no longer need or want.

Mend, upcycle or repair something to give it a new lease of life.

Reuse some unwanted clothes or fabric by making it into something else. It's easy to search for ideas online, see the make your own bunting resource sheet for some initial inspiration.

5. Spread the word

Finally, one last important way of taking action is by raising awareness of an issue among others.

Jessy and Isaac are two young people living in Malawi. They are proud to help raise awareness of how climate change is impacting people's lives now and why urgent action is needed.

Together with their headteacher, Jessy and Isaac visited the UK in 2019. They met with other young people to share experiences and ideas about the impacts of the climate crisis and what action is needed.

They also took part in a climate rally in London. Watch the video to find out more:

How could you spread the word?

Talking to family and friends is one way to start.

Share some facts about the causes and impacts of the climate crisis; talk about thoughts and feelings about climate change; discuss what action you could take.

Perhaps you could talk to an elderly relative about how the environment and our lifestyles have changed during their lifetime.

Further learning

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Oxfam GB | Ideas for taking climate action at home

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Kitty Norwell/Oxfam Join with others in tackling the climate crisis Climate change is affecting millions of the world's poorest people, right now. More frequent and extreme weather, like storms and droughts, are destroying homes, lives and livelihoods. There is still hope but urgent action is needed now.

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Alongside the majority of councils, the LGA has declared a climate emergency. We offer a wide range of resources to help councils address environmental sustainability.

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About Carbon Literate Localities

Carbon Literacy is a low-carbon-culture-change project that brings individuals and organisations to act together to address the negative aspects of climate-change, take advantage of the opportunities and work together to build our low carbon future.

Carbon Literate Localities is an initiative bringing together many people and organisations that belong to a geographically define location to support and collaborate through their Carbon Literacy so that the sum of their individual contributions becomes more than the sum of its parts.

A Carbon Literate Locality initiative:

Is geographically defined by postcode, political border or natural geographical features.

Is registered as an initiative with the Carbon Literacy Project.

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Has a foundational target number of Carbon Literate citizens based on the official population of the locality.

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Is championed by organisations and groups that sign the Carbon Literate Locality Commitment for their locality and then showcase their contribution publicly.

The requirements for a Carbon Literate Locality are laid out in the Carbon Literate Locality Standard (coming soon), but once achieved, the locality is awarded Carbon Literate Locality status and the co-ordinating and contributing organisations can use their custom CLL logo and refer to themselves as part of a Carbon Literate Village/Town/City/County/Region.

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