News: Green Drinks is Thursday 15th July 8pm at the Kings Arms Stoborough. From now on Green drinks will happen twice per month:
First Thurday of the Month- the Black Swan, Swanage 8pm
Third Thursday of the month- the Kings Arms, Stoborough 8pm
See you there!
Click the ‘What’s on?‘ tab at the top to see that PEAT has finally joined all the other Transition groups in Dorset and now is part of their joint calendar… hurrrahh!
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Purbeck Environment Action Team (PEAT)
PEAT is a group of like-minded individuals working towards sustainability in Purbeck. We encourage “living lightly” and sharing the Earth’s resources fairly.
PEAT is a Dorset Agenda 21 (DA21), Community Choices for Sustainable Living (CCSL) group that formed in June 2006. DA21 is an independent charity that works co-operatively with local people, communities, businesses, educational bodies, local government and other organisations to encourage sustainable living in Dorset.
The CCSL project aims to inspire and enable local communities to choose more sustainable lifestyles by. CCSL PEAT formed to focus on local Purbeck issues. So far we have held a big awareness raising event in Wareham called ‘PEAT on the STREET’ which was a street party with stalls, music, street art and a good measure of community spirit in support of european ‘In Town Without My Car’ week.
PEAT has now decided to join thousands of communities around the world in the Transition Towns concept. Transition Purbeck is a community led adventure to help make Purbeck resilient to two major factors- Peak Oil and Climate Change. Both of these factors mean that we need to use less, have a lower environmental impact and re-localise our food, services, skills and energy via awareness raising initially then a variety of community projects all working towards the production of an energy descent plan for Purbeck or ‘Power Down’!
PEAT aims to:
(1) Raise public awareness and understanding about sustainability
(2) Support or initiate projects which demonstrate sustainability
(3) Influence decision makers to take sustainability into account throughout their decision making
As part of DA21 we share the definition of sustainable development as : “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”
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