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๐๐ Cricket, Climate & Sustainability ๐ฆ๐ Find us on Bluesky ๐ณ https://t.co/5ECDrnUBiH
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๐ข๐ข Cricket clubs! ๐๐. The @ECB_cricket County Grants Fund offers grants of up to ยฃ10,000 to help clubs tackle climate change! ๐๐. For more info visit ๐ For some inspiration, see our blogs ๐
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County Cricket Matters also makes for an excellent fan! ๐ชญ
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โ๏ธ๐ฅ It's already scorchio here at Lord's for #ENGvsIND! ๐ฅโ๏ธ. ๐ฆ Fortunately, there are 25 of these water refill points! Make sure you stay hydrated!๐ง
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๐ Off to Lord's for ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ #ENGvsIND ๐ฎ๐ณ. ๐ก Did you know. When Thomas Lord established the original Lord's back in 1787, we were still in the Holocene and CO2 was around 280ppm. ๐ฅ Today, here in the Anthropocene, we're hitting 428.29ppm ๐คฏ. โ๏ธ Clean energy now please โก
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๐๐ @LeicsCCC are top of the league: they're also doing a smashing job for nature and the climate ๐ณ. ๐ฑ๐ฆ Fancy taking a stroll with Tanya Aldred round Grace Road: A Little Slice of Heaven? ๐. Check out our latest blog ๐
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๐๐ This lovely clip features @TheCricketerMag Greenest Ground winners, Filongley CC planting trees in their community orchard/wildflower meadow ๐ณ๐ชป๐. โฝ From the @TNTSports documentary, Playing for our Future ๐ฅ.
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๐ Cricket lovers! We want to champion your sustainability stories! ๐. Is your club:.โ๏ธ Installing solar panels?.๐ Making space for nature?.๐ณ Planting trees?. ๐จ Get in touch! We'd love to showcase your work.
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๐ It's Women's #CountyCricketDay! ๐. ๐ @SurreyCricket are hosting their annual 'Sustainabili-T20' double header vs. Essex ๐. โป๏ธ Bring your own reusable containers and bottles/cups! ๐ป Cheers!
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๐ Cricket tree of the day goes to. ๐ณ๐.
A beautiful English oak.on the village green.the cricket pitch in front.facing the pub.close to our woodland.in the Kingdom of Kent. we are slightly biased, but on a Summerโs dayโฆโฆ.
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๐โณ When Betty Snowball scored 189 against NZ in Christchurch in 1935 (highest EVER test score by an ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ keeper - sorry Jamie!) atmospheric CO2 was at 309.7ppm. For the previous 800,000 years, it never breached 300ppm. Today, we're hitting 428.72 ๐คฏ. ๐ End. Fossil. Fuels. Now.
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๐๐ฑ Want to make your cricket club a haven for nature and biodiversity? ๐๐. ๐ Look no further than this guest blog from legendary Guardian Country Diary columnist, Mark Cocker! ๐ .
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This is what the government should be banning ๐.
๐จ ๐จ๐ฃ๐๐๐ง๐: Now agencies worth over ยฃ900 million(!) are calling for a fossil fuel ad ban. Next Monday's Parliamentary debate marks a historic moment for the campaign. ๐ง Ask your MP to attend with our template (it takes just 2 mins!):
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โ "Look at the history of all social and economic movements. It wasn't like it was easy for them. They didn't win the fight with no opposition. They won the fight with massive fucking opposition.". ๐ Cricket lover + Climate Change Sec., Ed Miliband ๐.
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๐ฎ๐ณ Come on India!!! ๐งก๐ค๐. (In the race for clean energy that is, not the cricket ๐) ๐. (Come on England! ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐).
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๐๏ธ To @Edgbaston for #ENGvIND! ๐. ๐ Did you know. Edgbaston are sustainability leaders! They have the ambition to be the most sustainable cricket stadium in the UK ๐. ๐ฑ Read about the success of their Go Green Game in this blog from Tanya Aldred:.
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๐ฅCheck out @AndrewSimms_uk of @Badvertising11 speaking about the importance of kicking fossil fuel money out of cricket and the role sport can play in building a healthier, happier, habitable world ๐๐. Part of our 2022 Time to Declare series:.
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๐คฏ 1kg of beef takes about 15,000 litres of water to produce ๐ฆ. ๐ That's roughly the same amount a cricket stadium uses every day ๐. ๐ @ECB_Cricket offer clubs guidance on how to conserve water:ย .๐
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RT @tjaldred: This beautiful oak shades spectators on a blazing day at York. Trees: shade givers, flood protectors, biodiversity hoarders.โฆ.
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๐๐ณ Send us your photos of trees at cricket grounds! . This lovely willow spotted at Stanley Park Blackpool t'other day! ๐
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๐ Happy #CountyCricketDay to all who celebrate! ๐. ๐ธ Send us your photos from around the grounds! ๐
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So pleased that The Cricket Paper covered Scoring The Next Century, our new Climate and Nature Action plan for cricket written with Gloucestershire CCC. Please get in touch for more information or take a look at the plan on our website. ๐ฟ ๐ ๐
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