Green Watford

Family Fun at RefillAbell
2021-09-20 09:00 - 2021-09-25 16:00 (Europe/London) | RefillAbell, 4 Haydon Road, Oxhey Village, Watford, WD19 4DD
TIME: Monday-Wed/Fri 9-6 pm and Thursday 12-7 pm, Sat 10-4 pm
Join the team at RefillAbell for a week of family fun activities at the shop, including:

Children’s art activities
Creating a sustainability tree
A post box recycling game

RefilllAbell will also be offering a small reward or green gift to shoppers spending over £35 during Green Week.

✓FREE ✓ALL AGES
✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

Big Green Book Swap
2021-09-20 09:00 - 2021-09-24 15:00 (Europe/London) | The Green Stores, 125 New Road, Croxley Green, WD3 3EN
Two of my passions, reading and reusing! Please bring your books, that you have read, loved and are in good condition, to our store. We will have a table outside with labelled boxes for you to pop them in. Take home a different book or 2 to enjoy. Adults, kids or baby books no one is too young or old.
Monday – Wednesday 9.30am-3pm, Thursday 11am-4pm and Friday 9.30am-4pm
www.thegreenstores.co.uk + Insta – the.green.stores + facebook – @TheGreenStoresCroxley + Twitter @thegreenstores

Butterfly Walk in the Park
2021-09-19 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/London) | Cassiobury Park, Gade Avenue,, Watford, WD17 3AR
Take our guided butterfly walk on Sunday 19 September at Cassiobury Park, and learn more about these incredible insects, their habitats and what you can do to help them flourish.
BOOKING REQUIRED – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/great-big-green-week-guided-summer-butterfly-walk-tickets-170437194236

The LORAX
2021-09-18 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/London) | Watersmeet Theatre, High St, Rickmansworth, WD3 1EH
Come and join us for a FREE viewing of the Dr. Seuss story The Lorax – a children’s film with a powerful environmental message on the importance of trees and nature in a world where everything is artificial and even the air is a commodity.

TIME: Doors open at 1.30pm, film to start at 2pm (finishes at 3.30pm)
✓ FREE
✓ AIMED AT CHILDREN
✓ WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
BOOKING REQUIRED – via Watersmeet Box Office: 01923 711063

Abbots Autumn Fest
2021-09-18 11:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | School Mead, Abbots Langley, WD5 0LB
The annual Abbots Autumn Fest is a fun event with a focus on local – foods, crafts, and community groups, with traditional games and entertainment.
http://www.abbotsautumnfest.uk

✓ FREE
✓ ALL AGES
✓ WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
Heavy rain may require cancellation.

Family Fun at RefillAbell
2021-09-18 10:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | RefillAbell, 4 Haydon Road, Oxhey Village, Watford, WD19 4DD
Join the team at RefillAbell for a week of family fun activities at the shop, including:

Children’s art activities
Creating a sustainability tree
A post box recycling game

RefilllAbell will also be offering a small reward or green gift to shoppers spending over £35 during Green Week.

✓ FREE ✓ ALL AGES
✓ WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

CYCLE the WATFORD GREEN RING
2021-09-18 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London)
This event is a cycle ride around the proposed 7-mile Watford Green Ring. SPOKES have proposed the Green Ring route for walking & cycling. Many of the routes on the proposed local cycling network will connect to the Green Ring.

✓FREE ✓ADULT ONLY
BOOKING REQUIRED – via info@spokesgroup.org.uk giving name + contact details
Heavy rain may require cancellation.

Park Litter Pick
2021-09-18 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London) | The Hub, Cassiobury Park, Cassiobury Park, Watford, WD17 3AR
Make a difference! Litter picking is a healthy and fun way to keep the park clean and create a better environment for us and the local wildlife.
If really bad weather it will be called off and notification will be via social media (facebook).
http://www.friendsofcassioburypark.org.uk
and https://www.facebook.com/FriendsOfCassioburyPark

✓ FREE
✓ ALL AGES
✓ WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

Watford and Three Rivers Great Big Green Week
2021-09-18 - 2021-09-26
Taking place between 18-26 September, the climate action campaign known as the Great Big Green Week will see thousands of people across the UK organising local festivals and events. The campaign aims to draw attention to climate change, destruction of the natural world, while also making a connection with these issues in communities like Watford and Three Rivers, at the same time as showcasing actions to tackle climate change.
Join us in Watford and Three Rivers in creating Green Week this September! Plans for our Green Week are coming on a pace with support in from both Councils and indications of support/ events/ involvement from all across the area. If you’d like to get involved – either in the planning or to contribute an event or item, please let us know – sustainableswherts@greenwatford.uk.
See also the Green Week page on this website for more details.

International Day for Biological Diversity
2021-05-22
The United Nations has proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. When first created by the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly in late 1993, 29 December (the date of entry into force of the Convention of Biological Diversity), was designated The International Day for Biological Diversity. In December 2000, the UN General Assembly adopted 22 May as IDB, to commemorate the adoption of the text of the Convention on 22 May 1992 by the Nairobi Final Act of the Conference for the Adoption of the Agreed Text of the Convention on Biological Diversity. This was partly done because it was difficult for many countries to plan and carry out suitable celebrations for the date of 29 December, given the number of holidays that coincide around that time of year.

World Fish Migration Day
2021-05-21
World Fish Migration Day is a one day global celebration to create awareness on the importance of free flowing rivers and migratory fish. We thank all participants and partners for hosting unique events from local to global on October 24, 2020. The next edition will be held on May 21, 2022. Everyone is welcome to join again on this celebration and organize events that promote migratory fish and free-flowing rivers!

World Bee Day
2021-05-20
Bees and other pollinators, such as butterflies, bats and hummingbirds, are increasingly under threat from human activities.
Pollination is, however, a fundamental process for the survival of our ecosystems. Nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, or at least in part, on animal pollination, along with more than 75% of the world’s food crops and 35% of global agricultural land. Not only do pollinators contribute directly to food security, but they are key to conserving biodiversity.
To raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development, the UN designated 20 May as World Bee Day.

World Fair Trade Day
2021-05-09
We here in the first world take our coffee, bananas, jeans and sneakers for granted, but there are many people in other countries that are not so lucky. Every day, tens of thousands of people in various Asian, African and South American countries men, women and even children work themselves to the bone in nearly unbearable conditions for pennies so we can continue to enjoy those things.
However, there are many people in this world who feel that everyone deserves decent wages and working conditions, regardless of where they live, and these people have created Fair Trade Day. Fair Trade Day is a global event that aims to draw attention to the objectives and achievements of the Fair Trade movement.
The Fair Trade movement campaigns to improve the lives of workers and small producers, especially those within developing economies, by asserting their rights and raising their visibility within international trade. The movement invites consumers to participate in its campaign by choosing Fair Trade alternatives to existing products.

World Migratory Bird Day
2021-05-08
World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) is an annual awareness-raising campaign highlighting the need for the conservation of migratory birds and their habitats. It has a global outreach and is an effective tool to help raise global awareness of the threats faced by migratory birds, their ecological importance, and the need for international cooperation to conserve them.

The Hertfordshire Environment Hustings - meet County election candidates
2021-04-19 19:00 - 20:30 UTC
Join us to meet and question Herts County Council candidates about their stance on environmental issues in the run up to May 2021 elections.
About this Event
Friends of the Earth groups across the Hertfordshire are putting on this Environmental Hustings so you can question candidates from the Conservative, Green, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties (two candidates representing each party), with a focus on tackling the climate crisis.
This May, we all have an opportunity to ensure hundreds of councils, no matter their political party, take climate breakdown seriously and commit to making our towns and cities greener and fairer for everyone.
Come along and hear what Hertfordshire County Council candidates’ plans are to address the climate crisis and ensure a green and fair recovery from the pandemic and have a chance to ask your own questions.
The Hustings will be held on Monday 19th April, opening at 1855, for a 1900 start, and finish at 2030.

Climate Action Group Meeting
2021-02-08 18:30 - 20:00 UTC
To kick start our planning our next meeting will be on the 8 February starting the call at 6.30pm for chat and catch up then diving into the meeting itself from 6.45pm 8pm.
The meeting will focus on:
1. Updates on current activities
2. Discussing the formation of small committee/steering group and linked roles to support our planned work in 2021. We welcome people to come and get involved and take on different roles within the group. Click here to see DRAFT/ outlines roles, do not hesitate to get in touch with me before the meeting if you have any suggestions, questions or concerns about any of outlined roles)
3. What’s happening in the next few months (responding to Watford’s Local Plan and Hertfordshire consultations, finalising the planning and organising of the follow up sessions from the Watford Climate Connections Event in December, hosting the Three Rivers Climate Connections Event and loads more …)
Contact anna@aphsherts.co.uk for the zoom login details

Watford Borough Council Sustainability Forum
2020-12-16 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | Online
The council is also inviting residents to join its sustainability forum. To register your interest, please email sustainability@watford.gov.uk. The second meeting is taking place on 16 December at 7pm. The meeting will include a presentation from the Friends of the Earth and update on the council’s Local Plan. You can watch the event on Facebook Live: facebook.com/watfordcouncil/events. Go to https://www.watford.gov.uk/info/20010/your_environment/1020/sustainable_watford/5 for more information on the Forum.

Hertfordshire Climate Change - Sustainability Partnership Inaugural Event
2020-12-03 10:00 - 12:00 UTC
The Hertfordshire Climate Change and Sustainability Partnership (HCCSP) is working collaboratively to deliver climate change targets and meaningful carbon reduction across Hertfordshire, by joining the 11 Hertfordshire local authorities with the Local Enterprise Partnership.
To register go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hertfordshire-climate-change-sustainability-partnership-inaugural-event-tickets-129488432387
