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Toolkit: SCATTER

Working out which collective actions by cities and city-regions will have the greatest impact in reducing carbon emissions is complex. This is where the SCATTER tool (Setting City Area Targets and Tr...

Melisa Gooding: Bringing Power to the People with North Kensington Community Energy

Oct 22

Repowering London’s aim is to empower communities to take greater control of their energy generation and use. We install solar panels that are community-owned, literally bringing power to the people....

Sat Kaur: Timeless Principles for Eco Homes

Oct 15

The Government’s new Green Home Grants scheme is now live. Low-income households and private homeowners are being offered vouchers of up to £10,000 and £5,000 respectively to ‘wrap up [their homes] f...

Collaboration in the Wood-Wide Web

Oct 13 · 4 mins

John Connor: “We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.” The Terminator: “It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.” John Connor: “Yeah. Major drag, huh?” Terminator 2 - Judgment...

Julia Roebuck: Clothing In Circular Communities

Oct 08

To reduce the increasing volume of textile waste caused by fast fashion, traditional routes for clothing re-use need to get creative, embrace localism and think circular. The Coronavirus pandemic...

Don’t Just Consume It, Count It

Oct 06 · 3 mins

There’s an elephant in the room and it’s the greenhouse gas emissions from goods we consume in the UK that have been imported. They don’t count because we choose not to count them. The UK is not...

Toolkit: 31 Actions

Oct 01 · 2 mins

Ashden's mission is to accelerate transformative climate solutions and build a more just world. Our focus is where the need is urgent and the potential for impact great: creating liveable cities and...

Zoë Toone: Catalysing A Low Carbon Economy

Sep 30 · 4 mins

The way we power our lives must change. And here in Oxfordshire, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the OxFutures project are showing the world how it’s done. The Low Carbon Hub is an en...

Adam Tranter: It’s Time To Choose Our Future!

Sep 24 · 6 mins

Just 6% of people want to go back to the way things were, cites a recent YouGov poll. It’s an incredible but believable stat given what we’ve all learned about ourselves and our communities during lo...

Matt White: Norfolk Car-Free Day 2020

Sep 22

2019 saw the inaugural Norwich Car-Free Day. Our plan to expand and grow seemed so simple back then, but - of course - COVID has thrown some gigantic spanners in all the works. COVID cast a shadow...

The People’s Path To Net Zero

Sep 15 · 7 mins

“We’re up for it!” is the inspiring (and perhaps to some, a bit surprising) message from the UK Climate Assembly, a carefully selected group of 108 ordinary citizens from every part of UK society who...

Biodiversity Is Not An Afterthought

Sep 14 · 3 mins

Despite the mass human migration from rural to urban areas, we never lost our dependency on nature. We just forgot to think about it. Our entire urban way of life is built on a foundation of natural...

Avril Rowley: Towards a 'Natural Curriculum'

Sep 08

How the use of Outdoor Learning and Forest School approaches is impacting Initial Teacher Education students at Liverpool John Moores University and local schools It has become widely accepted tha...

Escapism And Inspiration

Sep 06 · 4 mins

A bit of escapism has always been important and during lockdown I discovered some inspirational books that I could escape into whilst at home. So, for your enjoyment too, here are some good non-ficti...

Green Homes Grants

Sep 04 · 2 mins

We know that saving energy is less expensive than producing energy. It is also a low-cost approach to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. So, the good news is that starting from this month, homeowners...

Securing Our Food

Sep 03 · 5 mins

Food security means everyone having enough safe and nutritious food to grow up and live a healthy life, in ways the planet’s ecosystem resources can sustain. Looking into the near future, there are i...

GB Team: Working Together From The Ground Up

Sep 01 · 3 mins

Sometimes an idea can be had by multiple people, all at the same time. The idea doesn’t have to be a new one, but if enough people have the idea at the same time, then it can be talked about, hypothe...

'Net' Is A Dirty Word

Aug 27 · 3 mins

What’s the difference between carbon neutral, net-zero carbon, carbon zero and negative emissions? To understand the targets outlined in our local climate action plans, we need to get into these defi...

Friends Of Carbon Copy: Greenhouse PR

Aug 25 · 3 mins

Carbon Copy is very fortunate to be working with Greenhouse PR, an outstanding communications team who help drive positive social and environmental change. Stories are fundamental in shaping our c...

Embracing The Circular Economy

Aug 20 · 7 mins

“Economics is broken,” says Kate Raworth, visionary author of Doughnut Economics. “It has failed to predict, let alone prevent, financial crises that have shaken the foundations of our societies.”...

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