Our next environmental chat will take place on Friday 17th April  as 10th April is Good Friday, in Pitlochry Town Hall, West Moulin Road, Pitlochry, 7pm to 9pm. A Climate Cafe is where people come together for a regular monthly meeting which is open to everyone of any age whether they are familiar with climate change or not, but are interested in its effects on the environment.  Come chat about any concerns or interests you have, exchange information, find some answers. For more information contact:- Carol Aitken: caaitken.naturaldesign@gmail.com or check out our Face Book page: Climate Cafe Pitlochry & District and our new Website: pitlochrycc.co.uk courtesy of Kate Kirby for more tips and information.

This month we are organising another Zero Waste event in the Pitlochry Town Hall on Saturday 18th April from 10am till 3pm. The Spring Green Festival will include a selection of stalls providing different products from food to plants, activities for the kids, a Biodynamic garden talk and a yoga session to name a few and  we will be providing information on reducing waste, recycling and continue our Big Climate Conversation. 

We are also working with Jane King and Jenni Moncrieff from both the Climate Cafe and the local Rotary Club to support the reduction of single-use plastic in Pitlochry, to make our town more 'plastic-lite'. We know that we cannot stop using plastics as it is such a useful and practical material, but the aim is to reduce its use, to reuse and refill containers and water bottles and then recycle the rest. We will also be encouraging those with shop windows to create a sculpture made from their single use or non recyclable waste and to display a poster to the effect that we are all working together to make Pitlochry ‘plastic-lite’. Check out Macnaughton's Hanger man.   

The next Climate Café meeting will take place at 7pm on Friday the 13th March at the HSPC, Atholl Road, Pitlochry.

Ideas to be discussed include:

• Working towards a Single Use Plastics Free Pitlochry using the Plastic lite Campaign/ Rubbish Trail.
• Using the Town Hall for our climate Cafe meetings from April.  
• Website is live but we still need any information, websites, links, etc to share with everyone.  
• #Big Climate Conversation, just waiting to hear back from Jess Pepper so I can forward  the final copy.  
• Zero waste Spring Green Festival ideas for 18th April.