What Can We Do?
Check out our Climate Collapse, The Reality and Disaster Diary pages to learn more
History shows that rapid change has only come from everyday people taking action. Do everything you can be it through art, environmentalism and/or campaigning. Work with others, contact any of the groups or attend any of the events listed here on the site.
Please don’t look away
Please don’t look away
Campaigns & Organisations
Join and be active with the local branch of a national pressure group– moving government must be a main focus
Contact MP’s and Councillors – here is advice on how to …
Join and be active with local environmental organisations
This is a growing list. If you are a climate or environmental group active in the Bradford District, please send your details to add to [email protected]
- Bradford 2025 City of Climate Culture. Bradford celebrates and demands action against poverty, war and climate. Celebrate environmental solutions and find the new world that is necessary. Actions, Education, Peoples Assemblies, Publicity.https://linktr.ee/bd25climate, [email protected],
- Climate Action Ilkley - [email protected]
- Climate Action Menston - https://climateactionmenston.org.uk/
- Climate Action Silsden - https://climateactionsilsden.org.uk/
- Culture Declares Emergency
- FOE – Shipley Baildon branch
- Global Justice Now – Bradford branch
- Greenpeace
- Just Stop Oil
- Otley 2030
- XR https://rebellion.global/groups/gb-ilkley/
Contact MP’s and Councillors – here is advice on how to …
Join and be active with local environmental organisations
- Aire Rivers Trust - Appleby based but cover the whole water basin that flows into the Aire
- City of Nature Nature’s Hope event Lister Park Sat 24th May importance of pollinator diversity to protect our ecosystems.
- Friends of Bradford Beck
- Otley toad Otley toad patrol https://www.wildlifefriendlyotley.org.uk/about
- Riddlesden Toad patrol - saves toads throughout spring.
- River worth friends - Keighley river stewardship
- Shipley Green Drinks - Facebook, or [email protected]
- Wildlife Friendly Otley
- Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
This is a growing list. If you are a climate or environmental group active in the Bradford District, please send your details to add to [email protected]
Adapt Your Lifestyle
Change your bank to one that does not invest in fossil fuel extraction
Do Oppose
Do
Gardens and yards
Do Oppose
- Any measures that will increase road traffic such as new road developments, building new housing that requires residents to use a car
- Use of private jets
- Pension funds that invest in fossil fuels (does yours?)
Do
- Support any measures that will improve and increase the use of public transport or active travel (walking/cycling)
- Eat less meat
- Drive and fly less
- Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle
Gardens and yards
- No mow May A healthy lawn with some long grass and wildflowers benefits wildlife, tackles pollution and can even lock away carbon below ground
- Resist clearing plant debris in gardens and yards until April to allow insects such as ladybirds, solitary bees and hoverflies to survive and be of benefit to gardens.
- Make compost Use compost bins and water butts (often available at reduced cost from local authorities),
- Use only peat free compost
