New Leaf
Alresford's Green Living Hub
New Leaf offers local information and guidance, encouraging our community to adopt the positive changes needed to tackle climate change, promote sustainability and protect our local environment and wildlife.
Find out why it is time to turn over a New Leaf and what we can do in our day to day lives to help tackle climate change. We will show you how to get started, and you can use our assessment and checklists to help you on your journey.
Discover the local resources available and find out what others within our community are doing to support sustainability.
We all need to work together and do our bit in the fight against climate change, so join in and turn over a New Leaf today!
Why it's time to turn over a New Leaf
Time left to the climate change tipping point
‘Climate Change could be irreversible by 2030’
From the IPCC Report 2019
What's happening in our community
Professor Ian Williams: Other countries can learn from the UK’s successful shift to fortnightly bin collections
Heat is no longer a future climate risk. It is already here. Across continents, high temperatures are being pushed higher by forces acting at once:
Professor Ian Williams: Summer’s silent killer: why the world’s heatwaves are a global health emergency
Pairing scientists with an artist-in-residence can cut through “ecofatigue” (feelings of overwhelm or exhaustion about environment issues that lead to apathy and inaction), spark emotion
Professor Ian Williams: 70 years on from the killer smog: what clean air laws teach us about power, pollution and profit
Seventy years ago, London choked. For five days in December 1952, a toxic smog smothered the city. Visibility collapsed. Transport failed. Thousands died. It was not
Professor Ian Williams: Why European households throw away so much food – and how to curb the waste mountain
Europe is wasting huge amounts of food while millions of people globally experience hunger. Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have squeezed supply chains. The cost
Grow it Yourself Tips – July
For the GIY gardener, July is largely a month for maintenance and monitoring. Many crops are flowering and setting fruit at this time, although you
Our Earth, Air & Water talks
On Monday 15th June, we enjoyed a series of Earth, Air and Water talks in the Barn at The Flower Pots. The aim of the
Gardening for Wildlife – June & July
Linda Bingham Gardening for wildlife After an unusually cold April, we then experienced a very soggy May! Gardeners went from protecting plants in the garden
Grow It Yourself Tips – June
The weather hasn’t changed – we have been blessed with almost wall-to-wall sunshine, and now is the time to plant out your beans, courgettes, squashes,
Earth, Air & Water – an evening of talks at The Flower Pots
New Leaf warmly invites you to our ‘Earth, Air & Water’ series of three short talks in The Barn at The Flower Pots on Monday