These pages hold content maintained (but not necessarily originated) by the Subject Adviser.
Bioplastics - are they better for the environment than conventional plastics?
Climate Group Leaders - Facebook - a forum for sharing ideas about how to run an effective u3a climate group. You don't have to be a group leader, you just have to have something to contribute.
Discussion Topics - things that you might talk about in meetings.
Environmental Policies - Sample Policy for u3as on Environmental Issues.
Footprint Calculator - this one is from WWF.
Global groundwater depletion - living in the Anthropocene: human activity has pumped enough ground water to increase mean sea level and to move the rotational pole.
JargonBuster - just a fancy name for a glossary.
Healthy diet means a healthy planet - eating healthy food is almost always also best for the environment.
Influencing and Social Change - guidance from the Trust. u3a founders were clear that the movement should have a voice in public policy discussions.
Recycling in the UK - I’ve been trying to understand how recycling works in the UK – following the money around the system. Having done this I thought I might as well write it down.
Second Nature newsletter
Style Guide - how to submit material to this website or to Second Nature.
What to recycle - avoid wishful recycling.
Where the food waste goes - anaerobic digestion.
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