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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…
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Coal Was The Future Once
The UK government has announced that it intends to build a new coalmine, the first in three decades, at Whitehaven…
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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…
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Sue Riddlestone: 3 Top Tips for a Successful Built Environment Project
To mark the 20th anniversary of BedZED, and the visit of the Running Out of Time relay race, we reflect…
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Juliet Staples: Lessons Learnt From Liverpool’s Green Regeneration
Liverpool is a front-runner city in the international EU-funded Horizon 2020, URBAN GreenUP project, whose remit is to retrofit a…
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Hal Rhoades: People And Places Across Time
Launched in the summer of 2019 on a 2,000 acre estate in the Brecon Beacons, Wales, the Penpont Project is…
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The Most Important Place To Be
Last October, I set off from Camden and walked 500 miles to COP26 in Glasgow. Part of a small team…
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Nelly Semaille: Filling Good Top Tips!
What are the five top tips for starting a zero-waste shop in your local area? Carbon Copy speaks with Nelly…
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Claudi Williams: Kicking The Plastic Habit
Stroud District Action on Plastic is a volunteer group that formed following a public talk I was invited to give…
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Betsy Gorman: Bring Back The Wild
Almost every town has a patch of green: garden, road verge, park, or even the odd tree. Even in our…
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Chris Baines: Urban Wildlife
Chris Baines, one of the UK’s leading independent environmentalists, talks to Carbon Copy about our changing attitudes towards urban wildlife…
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John Blowes: Halton Lune Hydro
John is the Director, Project Manager and Chairman of Halton Lune Hydro – a community owned hydro-electric project generating around…