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Biodiversity Is Not An Afterthought

We never lost our dependency on nature; we just forgot to think about it. Our entire way of life is built on a foundation of natural resources and sustained by essential ecosystems. Biodiversity – th...

From Grief To Leadership

Nov 17

Same question, different pundits. What did you think about the outcomes from this year’s global climate summit COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh? Above all, we apparently want to hear analysis of technocratic...

Join Us On The Global Stage

Oct 20

As I write this, the longest ever non-stop relay is well over half way along its route from Glasgow (the host of last year’s global climate summit, COP26) to Sharm El-Sheikh (the host of COP27 in Nov...

Brilliant stories, recently added.

Glasgow Food Policy Partnership

Creating a fairer, healthier, more sustainable and resilient food system.

Glasgow City

Food security & supply
Greater fairness
Health & wellbeing

Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Biodiversity & Nature
Circular Economy

Marlborough Community Fridge

Reducing food waste

Wiltshire

Excessive consumption
Health & wellbeing
Waste

Circular Economy
Biodiversity & Nature

Reading Hydro CBS - A community funded, built and operated hydropower plant

To harness the power of water to generate renewable low-carbon electricity on the River Thames

Reading

Carbon emissions
Tech & Innovation

Energy
Biodiversity & Nature

Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK)

Supporting students and wider society to learn about, act and lead on sustainability.

Aberdeen City

Biodiversity loss
Carbon emissions
Health & wellbeing

Biodiversity & Nature
Energy

GM Business Green Scene

Helping businesspersons (in GM) collaborate with others motivated by the green transition.

Bolton

Biodiversity loss
Greater fairness
Tech & Innovation

Energy
Built Environment
Circular Economy

Project Zero

Making the Council carbon neutral by 2030.

Vale of Glamorgan

Air pollution
Carbon emissions

Energy
Built Environment
Transport

Transition Towns

Increasing local resilience, reducing energy use and building a regenerative local economy.

Carbon emissions
Excessive consumption
Food security & supply

Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Energy

TRAID

Tackling the negative social and environmental impacts of producing, consuming and wasting clothes.

Brent

Excessive consumption
Greater fairness
Waste

Circular Economy

Black & Green Ambassadors

Ensuring the environmental movement is inclusive and representative.

Bristol

Greater fairness

Biodiversity & Nature

Plastic Free Communities

Freeing local communities from avoidable, throwaway plastic.

Excessive consumption
Health & wellbeing
Waste

Circular Economy

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