Count Me In May 25, 2023 Perhaps you were one of the 6 million people who took up hundreds of thousands of volunteering roles on the extra May bank holiday as the coronation festivities concluded with the ‘Big Help Out’. Thi...
Decade Zero, Year Three May 22, 2023 It’s a good thing we don’t have to depend on the UK’s independent Climate Change Committee for encouraging news! The CCC’s purpose is to report to Parliament on government progress made in reducing g...
Seeing Red May 08, 2023 From a young age we are taught that different colours have different meanings. Blue is a cool, calm colour. The colour of sunny, cloudless skies and beautiful crystal seas. Red is a hot, angry...
Sophie Marple: From Anxiety To Action May 01, 2023 We spoke to Sophie Marple, co-Founder of Mothers CAN, about how to stay hopeful in the face of eco-anxiety. Read on for her thoughts, or watch the video above for the full conversation. ‘I had don...
All That Nature Holds Mar 20, 2023 In Zen Buddhism, a 'koan' is a surprising and often perplexing phrase that makes us think twice. One of the most familiar koans is the simple question, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is ar...
Connie Muir: Croydon Community Energy Mar 08, 2023 We spoke to Connie this International Women’s Day about her journey from working in the energy sector to founding and running a renewable energy cooperative. My name is Connie Muir. I'm based in C...
23 Community Actions In 2023 Feb 20, 2023 People who are worried about the impact of climate change – which is three-quarters of the population in the UK – are asking, “what can I do?” and too often receive answers that are clichéd and consu...
Caroline Aistrop: Stroud & Proud Jan 20, 2023 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, 2022 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, 2022 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...
Biodiversity Is Not An Afterthought Dec 02, 2022 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, 2022 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, 2022 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...
Possible To Do, Impossible To Ignore Sep 30, 2022 Thousands of runners are joining a record-breaking relay effort to pass a baton 7,767km through 18 countries. The baton contains a climate message that will be delivered to world leaders in November...
Sue Riddlestone: 3 Top Tips for a Successful Built Environment Project Sep 27, 2022 To mark the 20th anniversary of BedZED, and the visit of the Running Out of Time relay race, we reflect on what made it a success. Starting a new project can be daunting, especially when you’re at...
Juliet Staples: Lessons Learnt From Liverpool’s Green Regeneration Sep 13, 2022 Liverpool is a front-runner city in the international EU funded, Horizon 2020, URBAN GreenUP project, whose remit is to retrofit a range of nature-based solutions (NBS) across the city and to monitor...
Hal Rhoades: People And Places Across Time Sep 05, 2022 Launched in the summer of 2019 on a 2,000 acre estate in the Brecon Beacons, Wales, the Penpont Project is the largest intergenerational nature restoration project of its kind anywhere in the world....
Three Words That Could Change The World Aug 31, 2022 What would you say in a few words to those gathered at the next global climate summit? Do our politicians need to be more ambitious or simply keep the promises they’ve already made to reduce greenhou...
The Most Important Place To Be Aug 18, 2022 Last October, I set off from Camden and walked 500 miles to COP26 in Glasgow. Part of a small team of walkers, we wanted to engage individuals and groups more widely on climate action. For humanity t...
Are You Sitting Comfortably? Jul 21, 2022 Can we really be running out of time if we’ve given ourselves until 2050 to get to net zero greenhouse gas emissions? After all, the UK government has a solid net zero strategy in place and a legally...