Taking place between the 6th and the 14th of April, the Big Spring Beach Clean is the largest volunteer beach cleaning project in the UK, if not Europe. It was started by Surfers Against Sewage in 2010 and since then, over 74,500 people have taken part at over 1,775 events across the UK. This year, […]
Happy 1st Birthday Greener Tywyn Gwyrdd!
Greener Tywyn Gwyrdd would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who attended our 1st birthday party on March 23rd! Over 150 of people visited the Magic Lantern cinema throughout the day to see the stalls and demonstrations, while enjoying tea, coffee and the vast array of homemade cakes at the bar. A […]
Youth Strike 4 Climate – Over 500 students strike in Aberystwyth and Machynlleth
From Wales to Australia, more than a million school children from over 125 countries across the world put down their pencils yesterday to attend Fridays for Future (known as Youth Strike 4 Climate in the UK), the largest global climate strike ever organised. Behind the movement is 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, whose determination […]
Tywyn first town in Gwynedd to declare ‘Climate Emergency’
Greener Tywyn Gwyrdd is proud to announce that Tywyn has become the third town in Wales, and the first in Gwynedd county, to declare a climate emergency after Tywyn Town Council backed the decision unanimously on February 13th 2019. The town is following in the footsteps of nearly 300 local governments in the UK and […]
Coedwig Fwyd at Ysgol Uwchradd Tywyn
By John P. Waddington An unused, forgotten area of the Ysgol Uwchradd Tywyn school field has been made in to a food orchard with the help of volunteers who put into reality the concept and design of a permaculture garden. The original idea came when Anne Sophie Tronet, the French and Food Tech teacher at […]
10 Green Changes You Can Make for Earth Day 2018
This year’s Earth Day campaign is all about “ending plastic pollution” – a theme which is more than fitting given the surge in interest in the topic, spurred on in part by the BBC documentary Blue Planet II. Since watching the documentary, my husband and I have actively been working towards living a more environmentally […]