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Caroline Aistrop: Stroud & Proud

When I first moved to Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1988, national journalists were arriving at the railway station and asking taxi drivers to ‘take me to the trees’. The drivers knew exactly where to...

CC Impact Report 2022: Glimmer Of Hope

Dec 21

Political and economic turmoil in the UK overshadowed a more disturbing theme running through our seasonal statistics this year. During winter storms, record-breaking winds caused major travel chaos...

Coal Was The Future Once

Dec 08

The UK government has announced that it intends to build a new coalmine, the first in three decades, at Whitehaven in Cumbria. A decision that has received objections locally as well as across the co...

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SHRUB Zero Waste Hub

Empowering people to live a low carbon life, without waste.

City of Edinburgh

Excessive consumption
Food security & supply
Waste

Circular Economy

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

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