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What can Labour in Stroud do to help restrict global warming?

Come along to our discussion on Monday 29 November – 7.30pm at the Exchange. We are seeing some genuine commitment to action through COP 26. What’s beginning (we think) to tip things in the right direction is the external pressure from young people, committed environmentalists and people from indigenous cultures…

Campaigners Thank Stroud District Council for Championing Community Energy

Today campaign group, Power for People, thanked Stroud District Council for resolving to support a Bill that would increase domestically generated clean energy, helping to boost local economies and reduce the UK’s reliance on gas. The proposed new law, known as the Local Electricity Bill, is supported by a cross-party…

Government praise for Stroud District Council scheme to tackle flooding

An innovative Stroud District Council natural flood management scheme has been highlighted as an exemplary approach to flooding, in a £5.2 billion national Government strategy to tackle flooding. Stroud’s Rural Sustainable Drainage Project (Rural SuDs) was initiated by community groups after areas of Stroud were flooded in 2007 and 2012.…

Stroud District Labour Councillors Pledge to Run Carbon-Negative Election Campaign

Labour councillors and candidates up for election to Stroud District Council in May have pledged to make their election campaign carbon negative. ‘I don’t think this has been done before and I am really excited about it,’ said Labour leader Doina Cornell. ‘The idea came from a conversation with a…