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Food and Agriculture
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Food and Agriculture, Good Food, Greater Fairness, Health & Wellbeing, Less Waste, Thriving WildlifeCopy These! 5 Big Local Ideas About Creating A Food Partnership
We all need to eat, and a food partnership is a great way to create a stronger, more sustainable, more…
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Copy These! 5 Big Local Ideas About Producing Local Food
Hungry for change? Here are some ideas about tackling the climate and nature crisis from the roots up.
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Putting the ‘Sustain’ into Sustainability
At the most literal level, what sustains us all is food. Get food right and you get a lot of…
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Stirring the pot for real change
Food waste and food poverty are two really big issues. In London, for example, an estimated 9 million meals are…
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Regenerative agriculture as the new normal
How strange… As a farmer, you need to be certified to be organic. You need to register with an approved…
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Taking the fear out of flooding
Flooding is the UK’s most serious natural hazard with a shocking one-in-six homes in the UK at risk. And yet,…
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Are peatlands better than trees?
Which is more effective at storing carbon in the UK, all our peatlands or all our forests? Both bogs and…
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Buildings & Places, Circular Economy, Climate Action, Food and Agriculture, Local Powers, Nature, Renewable Energy, TransportLocal Action Means Big Impact
Our new campaign, in partnership with WWF-UK, The Carbon Literacy Project and Climate Emergency UK, highlights the incredible potential of…
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Affordable Energy, Buildings & Places, Food and Agriculture, Greater Fairness, Health & Wellbeing, Local Powers, Nature, Renewable Energy, TransportDon von Rohland: Climate Action Scorecards
Have you checked how your local council is performing in tackling the climate and ecological emergencies? The Council Climate Action…
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We Love Storytelling
In the autumn of 2020, Sir David Attenborough briefly “broke the internet” by joining Instagram. His reasoning, according to one of…
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Circular Economy, Food and Agriculture, Good Food, Greater Fairness, Health & Wellbeing, Less Waste, Strong CommunitiesCircular Season’s Greetings
It’s that wonderful time of year, when, regardless of cultural background, many families are getting together, eating and drinking more,…
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Freya Stuart-Hopkins: The Force of Fungi
I don’t know what you were doing during September’s unprecedented heatwave in the UK, but I was on the hunt…