Sustainable Oakington & Westwick would like to find out what actions people are taking or would like to take to help the planet. Please could you spare a few minutes to fill in this short anonymous survey?

click here to open survey

all the ideas so far and its growing …. anything important not covered yet? which are most important? Click image to open the list

Thinking about how we can discuss and decide how to organise the group when we still don’t know exactly what we will do as a group … it seems rather difficult and awkward to me but also quite key … I reached the conclusion it would be most efficient to present to the group several plausible alternatives before the meeting for consideration and then  discussion and voting at the meeting. Alternatives? …

1. Subject Area sub-group based:

• e.g transport, food, recycling, wildlife …
• people say what groups they would like and if at least 3 people want to join that’s a sub group
• sub groups self govern
• all groups come together quarterly to update each other, hear views, vote when asked by sub groups 

2. Global priority based

• We discuss what is most important / effective things we can do to save the world
• Vote for top actions we can take – say top 3
• We  volunteer for 1,2 or 3
• sub groups self-govern
• Groups publish their plan to all others for comments and key issues voted on by whole group so projects approved by overall majority
• Sub groups action agreed plans

3. Organistion-based

• Management committee (core functions chair treasurer comms …?)
• Actively seek wider group opinions / votes but also develop the way it works based on ongoming situation / experience
• Preeoject leads appoind per project
• volunteers for projects

Others?
I dont feel strongly either way but think an open discussion without predefined options on how we organsie would take ages and not be mature and the above would make it easier to pr

Thanks to the 32 people living in Oakington or Westwick who completed this survey about food.

81% of those people avoid food waste “a lot”. Only 19% eat meat every day, and haf of them plan to eat less. 31% eat meat no more often than once a week. About 20% eat meat every day / frequently. For full results please click here

Thank you to everyone who was able to come to the first meeting of Sustainable Oakington & Westwick on Wednesday evening. It was great to see so many people and inspiring to hear what everyone had to say. There were lots of good ideas! 21 people joined so far. Notes from the meeting are circulated to attendees.

It was decided to meet again and the church hall has been booked for Wednesday 23rd February, 7:30pm when we will consider in more deatil what to do, actions to take and how to organise – so if you couldn’t make the first hope you can come along and hope that date will suit most people.

We will circulate some info for consiedration before the next meeting

and we welcome any thoughts or suggestions for the meeting …add as comments on this page or email sustainableow@gmail.com