Here’s a summary of news and blog posts from Edge Hill University’s LancsCAN (Lancashire Climate Change Action Network) website, covering a range of environmental and sustainability topics:

Current Campaigns & Initiatives

Photo by derek braithwaite on Unsplash, Blackbird listening for worms in a UK garden

Blackbirds in our Garden Survey, April – September 2025

SDG5 - Gender orange and white infographic with a male and female sign entwined

International Women’s Day 2025, Saturday 8th March Worldwide

Photo by Journeys With Sean on Unsplash, Pentland Hills, West Linton, UK

PLEASE SIGN – Purchasing Peat: the hidden ingredient inside our shopping baskets

Photo by Anna Pelzer on Unsplash, Vegan salad bowl

Now is the time! Help the Environment go Vegan/Vegetarian in 2025 perfect for Veganuary

Photo by Chris Slupski on Unsplash, dead Sparrow on the pavement

PETITION PLEASE SIGN – A national BAN on the use of Pesticides

Photo by Brian Yurasits on Unsplash, cigarette butts are the single most littered item on our world’s beaches. 2.3 MILLION are littered every single day around the world, and 1 in 10 will make their way to a body of water.

Volunteer for the Plastic Free Mersey (PFM) Project – SIGN UP

Homemade poster 'The climate is changing' being held at a demonstration

Zero Hour Election Campaign – The Nation Needs You, back the bill!

News Highlights

Photo by Vilmantas Bekesius on Unsplash, Ratcliffe on Soar power station on a moody day.

Historic day for Britain as the last coal power station SHUTS for good

Photo by Sam on Unsplash, A Class 507 PEP departs Bootle New Strand railway station on its way to Southport, with a flurry of petals in its wake

Unlimited Weekend Daily Travel for £2 with Merseyrail

Prospects logo with number 12 SDG in the background

NEWS – Re-Fill Thursdays, every Thursday 10am-2pm

Photo by Zoe Schaeffer on Unsplash, soil in wheelbarrow and gardener in brown overalls holding some in their hand.

NEWS – Dirt-powered Fuel Cell Runs Forever

Food Futures logo, 3 root vegetables next to the words 'food futures'.

North Lancashire awarded the Sustainable Food Places (SFP) Silver award

NEWS – Community Energy Preston is Born!

NEWS – Precious Peatland Saved from Housing Development Threat, 10 August 2023, Lancashire Wildlife Trust

NWNZ Hub - energy-centre photo, by NWNZH

NEWS – North West Net Zero Hub, Newsletter Summer 2023

Passers by looking at Mums for Lungs street advertising board in central Manchester - copyright Mums for Lungs

NEWS – People are dying because Greater Manchester’s Clean Air Zone hasn’t started

Opportunities

Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash, handful of organically grown chard

FarmStart Training applications for the 2025 season are now open! 

CAfS Cumbria Action for Sustainability logo

Train with CAfS,  Cumbria’s climate change charity, learn how to reduce your carbon footprint

Photo by Conor Samuel on Unsplash, the Liver Building one of Liverpool's three Graces.

VACANCY – Current Vacancies Liverpool City Region

A Good Thing – donate unwanted items to local charities

Blog Posts

Photo by Hannah Busing on Unsplash, hands coming together in a centre down clap

BLOG – Mobilising Communities

Friends of Tawd Valley - Tawd Tidings Blog, Aug 2023 - landscape

BLOG – Tawd Tidings, from Friends of Tawd Valley, 14 August 2023

Outdoor Learning - pic from Markus-Spiske on Unsplash - portrait

BLOG – Learning outdoors ‘refreshes your brain from stress’, from Lancashire Wildlife Trust

courier traveling with his cargo bike through the city, side view

BLOG – The Cargo Bike Revolution, Climate Challenge UK, 8 July 2021

Food waste planet Earth image, pic from Climate Challenge UK

BLOG – A Little Bit on the Side, Climate Challenge UK, February 2021

River Ribble close up rocks, plants and the sky reflected in the water from Ribble Rivers Trust

BLOG – River Catchments: How They Work and Why They Matter, 8 September, Ribble Rivers Trust

Ban the Burn, climate action protesters holding banners pic from Dave Penney, PCAG

BLOG – Councils lack resources to tackle the Climate Emergency, Pendle Climate Action Group

Canal in the foreground and Pendle Hill behind covered in snow pic-from-Dave-Penney-PCAG

BLOG – Pendle’s Target of ‘Carbon Neutrality’ by 2030, Pendle Climate Action Group

Coins in a glass with plant shoots growing up through the coins

BLOG – How can local communities decide together where money should be spent?, 31 August 2023, Food Futures

Green forest bridge - pic by Alex-Ljamin on Unsplash

BLOG – Eco-tourism and Regenerative Tourism, 1st September 2022, Longridge Environment Group

Events

Photo by Baim Hanif on Unsplash, students on top of a hill during sunset, wearing graduate gowns

Lancashire Youth Climate Conference 2024 – October

Disco-bedience image graphic, black text on a blue background.

Disco-Bedience, a night of baselines & beats care of Extinction Rebellion

Other Items

Bowerham Primary School children singing about climate change and the challenges infront of a memorial

Pupils from Bowerham Primary School, Lancaster, watch their video about climate change and the challenges