Our next Climate Cafes are this Thursday (7th April), from 7pm and next Tuesday (12th April), from 1pm, either in person in the Moulin Hall or virtually. 

​Please let Carol know if you will be attending either Climate Cafe and whether it will be in person or virtually so she can send a zoom link to you. 
caaitken.naturaldesign@gmail.com

These willl be this Thursday 4th November 7pm and Tuesday 9th November 1pm at the Moulin Hall. 

 Please let Carol know if you will be attending either Climate Cafe - caaitken.naturaldesign@gmail.com

Our next climate cafe is on Tuesday 19th October 1pm to 3pm in the Moulin Hall. The evening Climate Cafe is Wednesday 20th October, 7pm to 9pm in the Atholl Centre.
Please let Carol know if you are coming - caaitken.naturaldesign@gmail.com

We are hoping to re-start our in person meetings. There are two provisionally planned at the Moulin Hall - Tues the 24th, 1-3pm, and Weds the 25th, 7-9pm. If you would like to attend either (or both!) of these meetings please get in touch with Carol - caaitken.naturaldesign@gmail.com

Hi Everyone,

After our meeting on the 19th February our next environmental chat on Zoom will take place on Friday 12th March 2021 from 7pm.  Get in touch if you'd like a link for either of these get-togethers.

A Climate Café is where people come together for an informal 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.

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Perth & Kinross Council's community engagement on Climate Action Strategy: the results are expected by April 2021. Thank you to everyone who took part in the surveys and the different phase online sessions. 

Our exciting news: By now we have taken those first steps in the creation of a local Community Eco Hub as the Refill Station will be open in Pitlochry. Our information centre will be open as soon as possible after that under the current circumstances. We will be gathering and making available up to date information on 1.Energy efficiency, 2.Food, 3.Waste and 4.Transport. Our intention is to provide regular sessions where you can come talk to an advisor on any questions you have regarding these topics and Climate Change. 

1. Energy (includes creating more energy efficient buildings. Using household renewables over gas and coal. How can we use energy more wisely in our homes for heating, cooking etc.) 

2. Food, water and soil waste (includes producing, processing, packaging, transporting and storing food. Growing food locally in community gardens and orchards. Reducing food waste by swapping/sharing veg and fruit. Changing diets, less meat, more plants based).

3. Waste (including building waste, packaging, clothing, footwear, toiletries, household goods.  Reducing waste through reuse, repurpose, repairing and minimise overpackaging and stop using single use products rather than recycling)

4. Transport – (car sharing, use public transport, walking and cycling in place of car whenever possible. Minimum use of plane journeys)


Carol Aitken

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.