Welcome to Greening Oliver's Battery!We are a local group, formed in March 2008, to bring the Greening Campaign to Oliver's Battery, in collaboration with WinACC (Winchester Action on Climate Change). 
Trees on the Battery, May 2008 - photo by Jan Lloyd.Where is Oliver's Battery?
Oliver's Battery is a civil parish in Hampshire, England. It comprises some 700 households and is located just to the south of the City of Winchester. The parish was founded in 1956 on land that was formerly part of Compton parish. The picture shows part of Oliver's Battery viewed from the Yew Hill Butterfly Reserve.What is the Greening Campaign?
At present, vague mixed messages on tackling climate change abound. The impression is given that anything we do about it will not only cost us, personally, large sums of money but those who are doing something successfully to combat it are few and far between; certainly not amongst the majority in our neighbourhood. People feel disempowered.
How should we go about tackling climate change in our communities? We need to engage people and we achieve this by:- Including everybody
- Making people feel empowered
- Making people feel they are successful at their endeavours
- Making actions to be taken simple
- Making actions to be taken affordable
- Making people feel part of their community | |