We are in uncertain times as the Covid-19 pandemic escalates in our country and round the world. We don’t yet know the extent of the impacts it will have, but we do know they will be devastating, with great loss of life and difficulties for people, businesses and communities across every sector of our society. Many people are anxious and afraid.
Our Councillors will do all they can to support our communities, working with the Council and the voluntary sector, in line with official advice.
Saturday 29th February 11am to 2pm
Find our Fairtrade Stall in ReigateHigh Street, near the Old Town Hall
Several consultations open now give you a chance to have your say on important local issues.
We woke up this morning to a depressing result. We face another five years of Conservative rule, with dire consequences for our communities, our NHS and our climate.
Our two candidates, Jonathan Essex and Joseph Booton, gained on our 2017 results. In Reigate, Jonathan got 3,169 votes, 6% of the total, and in East Surrey, Joseph got 2,340, or 3.9%, double the vote share from 2017. They both did great work raising awareness of the Green Party’s agenda.
Four public hustings give you a chance to hear from all the candidates seeking your vote in the general election.
The Weald Action Group is holding a night of awesome music to raise funds for a legal fight against the expansion of oil drilling at Horse Hill.
Sarah Finch speaking at a Climate Emergency protest at Horse Hill
A Green campaigner has launched a Crowdfunder appeal to raise funds for a judicial review of Surrey County Council’s decision to allow massive expansion of oil drilling at Horse Hill in Surrey.
Sarah Finch, a former Green Party Councillor on Reigate and Banstead Council, is looking to raise £25,000 to cover legal costs.
Green MEP, Alex Phillips is visiting Redhill on 25 October 2019.
Alex is touring her constituency promoting her new Green New Deal report, which sets out how we can go zero carbon and create more local jobs.
On the way, she’s meeting with local Green enterprises, learning about what initiatives are out there and what we do to implement a Green New Deal.
She’ll be in Redhill from 2-5pm on Friday. Contact us if you’d like to meet her, or if your organisation would like her to visit: info@eastsurreygp.org: info@eastsurreygp.org
“Should residents be offered incentives to recycle?” is the question the Surrey Mirror put to local councillors this week. Ruth Ritter, Green Councillor for Earlswood & Whitebushes, responded as follows.
Recycling is vitally important for conserving the environment and reducing waste. Incentives to recycle for both individual residents and for businesses could well help us to improve our recycling rates but there also need to be incentives for councils to make it easier for us to reduce, reuse AND recycle.
Recycling helps reduce the need for mining, quarrying and logging for new raw materials, which are all activities that harshly pollute the air and water of our planet. They also use energy and generate greenhouse gases, but recycling only saves about half to one third of the energy used to make new stuff.
