Over 20 people joined PFOE’s ‘Staggeringly Green’ walk to explore what local traders and we as consumers can do to reduce our carbon footprint as part of the Great Big Green Week celebrating action on climate change. Highlights included: Short talks about Package Free Larder & Brambles Infant and Nursery “School Street” experiment; finding out what traders such as Southsea Deli, Southsea Inks and The Green Room Hairdressers are doing to help the environment and why we all need to find ways of reducing our carbon emissions in everything we do; learning about carbon emissions from cut flowers, food, fashion, transport and even funerals; spotting electric car charging points; and enjoying a chat over a drink and a pizza at Staggeringly Good Brewery tap room.
We much preferred this beautiful planted tree pit in Inglis Road to this one sprayed by pesticide:
