Our Green Stories: Life on Land Films

Museums Partnership Reading (The Museum of English Rural Life and Reading Museum, supported by Arts Council England) are focusing on exploring climate change, sustainability, biodiversity loss and related issues through our collections. Through the Our Green Stories campaign, we are championing environmental responsibility and the people and organisations in our community that make Reading a more sustainable place to live.

The campaign has been inspired and informed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, a set of guidelines that offer a holistic solution to the complex range of problems we face across the world. The projects we are delivering within Our Green Stories relate to six of the Sustainable Development Goals, based on their strong relevance to our collections and work.

The MPR Youth Panel – who inform and influence our programme and are change-makers within Reading’s culture and heritage sector – created short form videos and stop animations as a call to action relating to UN Goal 15 Life on Land

The logo for Our Green Stories.

Life on Land logo

Protect Green Spaces

Find out why and how we can look after green spaces in Reading and beyond with Nature Nurture, a creative social enterprise rooted in nature and wellbeing. https://www.nature-nurture.co.uk/

Grow Your Own

Grow Your Own

Planting ideas and seeds with Museums Partnership Reading Assistant Volunteer Co-ordinator for Garden Projects. Get some green fingers and tasty results.

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Get On Your Bus

Get On Your Bus

Explore the past, present and future of Reading buses, and hop on to one of the super environmentally friendly bio-gas buses that reduce CO2 emissions by up to 84%

https://www.reading-buses.co.uk/environment

Think Globally, Buy Locally

Think Globally, Buy Locally

Showcasing Reading’s friendly farmers’ market and how you can save those food air miles. Run by Thames Valley Farmers’ Market Co-operative, you can usually find the market at the old cattle market on Great Knollys Street on the mornings of the first and third Saturday of the month.

For reminders and details of which traders will be at Reading Farmers’ Market each time, follow the Facebook page or sign up for email alerts.

Cook Seasonal

Cook Seasonal

The MPR Youth Panel dig into archive recipe books and the garden at The MERL, to inspire you to make and bake something delicious using seasonal veg. Rely less on global, industrial agriculture and break the illusion that food is never out of season.

https://cookforgood.com/seasonal-cooking/

Farm With Care

Farm with Care

Agricultural practices cause around 24-30% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Farmers are looking at ways to reduce their emissions, including going back to older practices such as crop rotation rather than the use of chemical fertilisers and increasing the production of organic food. The Red Tractor logo means that the food you buy has been responsibly sourced, safely produced and comes from crops and animals that have been well cared for.

https://redtractor.org.uk/