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    Much of our environmental legislation comes from the EU so I’m concerned about the impact following the referendum result. As The Independent says “The EU’s record on environmental issues is arguably one of its greatest achievements. It has developed world-leading legislation on a range of issues, which have helped tackle water and air pollution, protected endangered species, and imposed tough safeguards on the use of genetically modified crops and potentially dangerous chemicals.”

    I don’t think any of us wants to go back to the days where we didn’t want to go swimming in the sea due to pollution, so the question is what can we do. It’s hard because as individuals we don’t have control over legislation, but we do have control over our own actions. So for me the answer is to do something, no matter how small it is because every small changes adds together to become a big change. 

    And if you’re looking for inspiration on the types of changes you can make, you’re in luck because bloggers in the BritMums community have  lots of ideas and examples of things you can do, across the broad spectrum of environmental issues including reducing waste, sustainable clothes and helping wildlife. Here are some examples written in the past month.

    I hope these posts inspire you to make a small change to retain and improve the environment we live in; if so please leave a comment on the blog post so the blogger knows they’ve inspired someone and is encouraged to keep writing on environmental topics. And please remember that by working together we can achieve great things and each small change you make will lead to big change.

    Please send me links to your environmental posts for the next round-up via my blog or tweet me @katedavis. Alternatively, let me know if you have any questions about the environment and I’ll answer them in future posts.

    About Kate Davis

    Kate’s first environmental action was picking cans out of the bins at school for recycling, leading to a green Blue Peter badge, and developing in to a career as an environmental consultant. At home she spends her time trying to convince her two children to turn off lights and tap and her husband to consider eco features as they turn an old care home into their family home. Kate is originally from Yorkshire, but now lives in Oxfordshire. She blogs at darktea www.darktea.co.uk/blog and is on Twitter @katedavis.

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    1. Catherine Green

      Hello Kate! I am a pagan lifestyle blogger and my husband is a Chartered Waste Manager. I voted Remain in the referendum after my husband explained about some of the environmental campaigns that the EU had influenced over the years. I must share a few of my environmental living blog posts with you… 🙂

      • Kate Davis

        It is going to be interesting Catherine what will happen going forward, it is certainly interesting that energy no longer has its own department does that mean it will be embedded into all business activities or forgotten? I’ll look out for some of your posts for future round-ups.

    2. Me, You and Magoo

      I don’t think the positive aspects of the EU were highlighted enough in the campaign. It’s always portrayed as this big, bad organisation…but there were so many positives associated with it too. You’re so right about the EU environmental legislation. Such a worrying time.
      Thank you for including my windspinner post, small changes can make a big difference.

      • Kate Davis

        I think there were a lot of positive things that weren’t highlighted enough during the campaign. I hope going forward the approach will be that we have to at least keep pace with the rest of Europe if not be better.

    3. Rosie @greenrosielife

      Thank you for including my bee attracting plants post – since writing that I have also blogged on the possible negative effects of Brexit on the UK environment and have a post about to be published specifically on the effect on bees. I’ll get the links to you on your blog. And I agree with other commenters – far too little was said about what the EU has done for the UK on so many issues including the environment.

      The bee post you link to is part of a series called Weekly Green Tips that I post every Friday – 7 tips each week that we can all do to make the world a better place, that will build into a years worth of tips by the time I finish.

      • Kate Davis

        Thank you for your comment Rosie. I visit your blog when I’m looking for posts and I’m spoilt for choice as you write so many interesting ones. I’ll definitely look out for your Brexit one and wait to see what comes out of Government.