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Climate changer seeks buy-in from Stirling's shoppers

Stirling is aiming to become the UK's first carbon neutral city and has started the New Year with a bang, bringing one of the UK’s highest profile climate change speakers to an eco-event at The Thistles Shopping Centre in central Stirling, today, Tuesday 6 January 2009. The event, hosted by Going Carbon Neutral Stirling (GCNS), a programme of Keep Scotland Beautiful, will include a series of talks and video presentations throughout the day by Evan Williams, Manager of The Climate Change Project and Rachel Nunn, programme manager for GCNS. GCNS is aiming to reduce Stirlingshire’s Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions by bringing about significant behavioural change by actively involving members of the public and community groups as well as local businesses.

Tuesday’s event in Stirling will be informal and open to all visitors to The Thistles Shopping Centre. The programme is detailed in the pdf press release on the news reel.

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Happy New Year from Keep Scotland Beautiful

New Year is a time for reflecting on the previous year and also for looking forward to the coming challenges. Last year Keep Scotland Beautiful (KSB) tackled some major environmental quality challenges. Now all of us at KSB are looking forward to the opportunities that 2009 will bring and we would like to take the opportunity to wish you all the best for the coming year.

To help KSB achieve higher standards of cleanliness in 2009 we are calling on everyone to have some pride in Scotland and make a New Year resolution pledge to help make our country even more beautiful.

Simply pledge to not drop litter, or take things a step forward and pledge to pick up a piece of litter every day and dispose of it correctly – the more people who pledge, the bigger difference we can make.

P&P Conference 2009 - Event of the Year

The 2009 People & Places Conference will kick off on February 25th in the Dunblane Hydro and you can now book your place online.

The fourth annual People and Places Conference and Awards Dinner will focus on the topic "The Importance of Local Environmental Quality in Public Spaces" with speakers from leading organisations addressing a wide range of topical issues. The two-day conference will provide an opportunity for delegates to investigate current and relevant good practice and investigate ways of working together to keep public spaces clean, safe and welcoming.

The People and Places Award winners will be announced on 25 February 2009 by after-dinner speaker Brian Taylor, a Dundonian who is currently Scotland's Political Editor with the BBC.

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