South East Climate Alliance

We are a coalition of local environment, community and faith groups across South East England uniting for urgent action on climate change.

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APRIL ACTION: Let’s stay in touch using Slack

With so many of our regular climate action efforts and campaigns now on hold because of coronavirus, the SECA Steering Group has been thinking how we can make best use of this lockdown period. Since meeting in person is ruled out we figured now would be a good time to try out Friends of the...

Case study: Repair café unites community and sows seeds of change

Behaviour change can be a daunting prospect, unless it happens in easy steps, with tangible and immediate benefits. Getting together to fix stuff is an instantly appealing answer to reducing waste, but Horsham District resident Carrie Cort has discovered that setting up a regular repair café has...

First crop of Climate Action Plans starting to come through

Nearly all the county, district and borough councils in the South East have now recognised the climate emergency. Some have been quick off the mark in producing Climate Action Plans and are leading the way for others to follow. In this article we summarise the headlines from some of these...

MARCH ACTION: Rewild our verges

March 3rd is World Wildlife Day. To celebrate and raise awareness of the world's wild fauna and flora how about for SECA's joint action for March we all get behind the Plantlife Road Verge Campaign? According to Plantlife, over 700 species of wildflower grow on the UK’s road verges – nearly 45%...

SECA Anniversary Networking Event – Report back

Our anniversary networking event on January 11th was a cracker! Just like our inaugural meeting a year ago, it was buzzing with energy and gave us all a much-needed New Year's shot in the arm. This was especially welcome given the urgency we all feel to get moving on climate action. A year ago,...

FEBRUARY ACTION: Shut that door!

Let's keep the heat inside and shut the doors Closing a shop door in winter can save up to 50% in energy use and carbon emissions. If all shops on the high street did this the saving would be immense. Shops do not want to because they think it will affect their business. Research has shown, it...

How SECA members are working with councils: Survey update

SECA is keen to keep tabs on how member groups are getting on in their efforts to engage with their local councils on their climate action plans. So we have been approaching SECA member groups by phone and email to ask how those efforts have gone. The news is encouraging; there's a lot...

JANUARY ACTION: Pledge to fly less

Flying really is the elephant in the room when it comes to our personal carbon footprints. It contributes about 3% of total global annual emissions, but this figure is growing steadily and flying is one of the toughest nuts to crack in going carbon neutral. So we're making flying the focus of our...

December Action: Vote for climate action!

So it's official - there will be an election on 12 December. This is our moment to push climate action to the top of the political agenda, and make it a #climateelection. No doubt you've already been thinking of what you can do to help achieve this. In this 'Election Special' blog we've brought...

How to organise a hustings meeting

We need to make sure climate change and the environment are high on the agenda for the upcoming Dec 12th election otherwise they are likely to get submerged by Brexit and other issues. Organising a hustings meeting for your local election candidates is a great way of doing this. It shows...