Join us. Our meetings are the perfect first step to getting involved in XR, you’ll meet lovely local rebels, learn about upcoming actions and feel like you can actually make a difference to the climate and nature crisis! We have many Groups across Cornwall, please see details below for how to contact them. To link in with XR Cornwall more generally, you’ll find us here:
Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | xrkernow@protonmail.com
We have a Local Group for all of North Cornwall and specific town groups in:
Bodmin: Facebook
Bude: Facebook
Camelford: Facebook
Launceston: Facebook | Instagram | Website
All North Cornwall contacts: Facebook | xrnorthcornwall@protonmail.com
All of North Cornwall meet together online, jointly with the South East Cornwall group – please see details below of how to access the meeting.
We have a Local Group for all of South East Cornwall plus Town groups in Liskeard, Lostwithiel, Rame Peninsula, Saltash, Tamar Valley, with more rebels in various other towns too!
South East Local Group and town group contacts: Facebook | xrsecornwall@protonmail.com
All of the South East groups meet together online every Tuesday, jointly with the North Cornwall group, 7-9pm. Please see the Events calendar for the Zoom link. Everyone is welcome, including rebels from elsewhere in Cornwall or further afield!
Covers the area roughly from Newquay across to St Austell, down to Falmouth and across to Portreath. Join us to stay up to date with what’s happening – new people are always welcome! We have a Local Group for all Mid Cornwall and specific town groups in:
Falmouth & Penryn: Facebook | xrfalmouthpenryn@outlook.com | No in-person meetings just yet, but many Falmouth & Penryn rebels join the Mid Cornwall Zoom meetings online, see below.
Porthtowan and surrounds: Facebook | porthtowan.action@gmail.com | In-person meetings on 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, 7-9pm at the Mount Pleasant EcoPark, Porthtowan, TR4 8HL. You’ll be made very welcome!
St Austell: Facebook | No in-person meetings but a small and dedicated group of rebels that get involved in Actions!
Mid Cornwall Local Group contacts: Facebook | xrmidcornwall@protonmail.com
All of the Mid Cornwall groups meet together online via Zoom on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month, 7-9pm, on this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82775215095
Meeting ID: 827 7521 5095
We have a Local Group that covers all of West Cornwall plus Town Groups that meet in-person in Helston, Penzance and St Ives & Hayle, please use contacts below for more information.
West Cornwall Local Group and town group contacts: Facebook | xrwestcornwall@protonmail.com
All of the West Cornwall groups meet together online via Zoom, fortnightly on Tuesday evenings. Please email XR West Cornwall as above to find out more and get the link.
Cornwall General contact: xrkernow@protonmail.com
Cornwall Actions and Logistics: xrcornwallactions@protonmail.com
Cornwall Finance and Fundraising: xrcornwallfinance@protonmail.com
Cornwall Media and Messaging: xrcornwallmediamessaging@protonmail.com
Cornwall Talks and Training: xrcornwalltalkstraining@protonmail.com
Cornwall Tech: xrcornwalltech@protonmail.com
Opencast coalmines are a threat to the environment. Toxic air pollutants released from the mines contribute greatly to global warming. In India, 80% of the country’s electricity comes from coal – the country is third in terms of carbon emissions.
Deadly fossil fuel in India: photo essay
www.theguardian.com
Photojournalist Supratim Bhattacharjee documents the story of an unofficial coalminer and her family in the Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India. Her work was supported by the Joan Wakelin bursa...
Are they beginning to get it?
the cost of living crisis requires insulating British homes as a matter of urgency and deploying renewable energy generation faster, the chair of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has said.
Lord Deben, a Conservative former environment secretary, said the measures needed to bring down energy bills were the same as those needed to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions.
Not too late to insulate homes this winter, says Lord Deben
www.theguardian.com
Climate Change Committee chair says measures needed to cut energy bills will also help reach net zero
Drax runs Britain's biggest power station, which burns millions of tonnes of imported wood pellets - which is classed as renewable energy.
The BBC has discovered some of the wood comes from primary forests in Canada.
The company says it only uses sawdust and waste wood.
Panorama analysed satellite images, traced logging licences and used drone filming to prove its findings. Reporter Joe Crowley also followed a truck from a Drax mill to verify it was picking up whole logs from an area of precious forest.
Ecologist Michelle Connolly told Panorama the company was destroying forests that had taken thousands of years to develop.
"It's really a shame that British taxpayers are funding this destruction with their money. Logging natural forests and converting them into pellets to be burned for electricity, that is absolutely insane," she said.
Drax: UK power station owner cuts down primary forests in Canada
www.bbc.co.uk
The owner of the UK's biggest power station, Drax, is cutting down key forests in Canada.Lies and greenwash. Hands up if you’re surprised… High fives to those who disrupted the event chaired by Drax at the Labour Conference 💚
‘I’m tired of the lies’: the young activists leading the way on climate action
‘I’m tired of the lies’: the young activists leading the way on climate action
www.theguardian.com
The Guardian is committed to giving a platform to young activists as the climate crisis becomes a very real, present-day phenomenonWhile Europeans watch their energy bills soar as the war in Ukraine drives up the price of natural gas, oil and electricity, the tiny German town of Feldheim has been energy self-sufficient for a decade
In one tiny German town, nobody worries about energy bills
www.independent.co.uk
While Europeans watch their energy bills soar as the war in Ukraine drives up the price of natural gas, oil and electricity, the tiny German town of Feldheim has been energy self-sufficient for a deca...