Hampshire

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Hampshire.

News

Video

Networks and sustainability initiatives

• Basingstoke Transition Network
• New Forest Transition
• Transition Southampton

Events

Regular events

1st Saturday of every month (except January) Southampton Repair Cafe

Community involvement

Have Your Say Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council

Hampshire has its own County Youth Council and is an independent youth-run organisation. It meets once a month around Hampshire and aims to give the young people of Hampshire a voice. It also has numerous district and borough youth councils including Basingstoke's "Basingstoke & Deane Youth Council".

Community and voluntary action

Green Hampshire help preserve and conserve the environment, both built and natural, for future generations.

Food activism

Curb, the The Real Junk Food Project, Southampton - Futurefarms, a co-operative from the village of Martin - Hampshire Fare - New Forest Food Challenge - Southampton Seed Swap - Southampton Sustainable Food Partnership on facebook

Resources

Policies

Food growing, Supplementary Planning Document – draft portsmouth.gov.uk

more video: Hale Village Market

Community energy

Basingstoke Energy Services Co-op - Hampshire Renewable Energy Co-operative - West Solent Solar Co-operative

The centre of Southampton is located above a large hot water aquifer that can provide Geothermal power to some of the city's buildings. This energy is processed at a plant in the centre of the West Quay region in Southampton city centre and is the only geothermal power station in the UK. The plant provides private electricity for the Port of Southampton and hot water to a city centre district heating scheme. In a 2006 survey of carbon emissions in major UK cities conducted by British Gas, Southampton was ranked as being one of the lowest carbon emitting cities in the United Kingdom...wikipedia:Southampton#Energy.

WinACC factsheets on saving energy

Arts, sport and culture

Whitchurch Bollards Project

Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle

• Share (Portsmouth), making it "easier for people to reduce carbon, waste and raw material use through sharing, repairing and re-use", initially via two projects, including Repair Café Portsmouth. added 14:27, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
• Southampton Repair Cafe

Apps for sustainability

Recycle for Southampton

Climate action

• Portsmouth Climate Action Board, working to transform Portsmouth, added 17:41, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
• Climate Conversations, Southampton
• Winchester Action on Climate Change

Sustainable transport activism

The Basingstoke Canal has been extensively restored, and is now navigable for most of its route. However its usage is currently still limited by low water supply and conservation issues.

• The River Wey and Wey Navigations Community Site – a non-commercial site of over 200,000 words all about the adjacent Wey Navigation with a section about the Basingstoke Canal

Recreational walks in Hampshire

Cycling activism

Portsmouth Cycle Forum

Education for sustainability

Minstead Study Centre - The Sustainability Centre

Biodiversity

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust

Restoration of the Itchen Navigation, linking Southampton and Winchester, primarily as a wildlife corridor, began in 2008.

Open spaces

Hampshire contains two national parks; the New Forest is wholly within the county, and the South Downs National Park embraces parts of Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex.

Hampshire contains all its green belt in the New Forest district, in the southwest of the county, from the boundary with Dorset along the coastline to Lymington and northwards to Ringwood. Its boundary is contiguous with the New Forest National Park. Its function is to control expansion in the South East Dorset conurbation and outlying towns and villages.

News archive

About Hampshire

Past events'

• Oct 22 - November 12, 2021, Portsmouth Climate Festival
• Mar 9, 2017, Have Your Say, public open day, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
• September 19 - 27, 2015, Basingstoke Green Week
• May 25, 2015, Environmental Rock 2015, on LocalWiki
• March 7, 2015, Sustainability Festival, Southampton Hub
• February 8, 2015, 9th Southampton Seed Swap
• September 20 - 27, 2014, Basingstoke Green Week
• May 11, 2014, South Downs Green Fair
• March 9, 2014, Alton Green Open Homes 2014

From Wikipedia:Hampshire

Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, Dorset to the west, and Wiltshire to the north-west. Southampton is the largest settlement.

The county has an area of 3,769 km² (1,455 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 1,920,959 in 2024. Southampton is located in the south and the city of Portsmouth in the south-east; both are part of a larger conurbation. A second conurbation in the north-east includes Farnborough and Aldershot and extends into Berkshire and Surrey. The remainder of the county is rural, and its principal settlements include Basingstoke in the north, Andover in the north-west, and Winchester in the centre. For local government purposes Hampshire comprises a non-metropolitan county, with eleven districts, and two unitary authority areas: Portsmouth and Southampton. The county historically contained the towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch, which are now in Dorset, and the Isle of Wight.

Undulating hills characterise much of the county. A belt of chalk crosses the county from north-west, where it forms the Hampshire Downs, to south-east, where it is part of the South Downs. The county's major rivers rise in these hills; the Loddon and Wey drain north, into the Thames, and the Itchen and Test flow south into Southampton Water, a large estuary. In the south-east are Portsmouth Harbour, Langstone Harbour, and the western edge of Chichester Harbour, three large rias. The south-west contains the New Forest, which includes pasture, heath, and forest and is one of the largest expanses of ancient woodland remaining in England.

See also

• Towards a more democratic and climate friendly way of meeting housing need across England