Excessive Consumption

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 Semaille, co-founder and co-director of the Filling Good shops in Maidenhead & Windsor....

Fixing Our Throwaway Economy

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 about my family's experiment of buying no plastic for a year during 2016. Like us, the...

July 29: An Unwanted Date

The idea of ‘overshoot’ is simple enough. When we don’t pay enough attention and go past an intended stopping point, that’s overshoot. Taking this concept further, there’s such a thing as an ‘Earth O...

Picture This: Conversations

Circular Economy Recorded as part of the launch event for Carbon Copy's Picture This: exhibition. The second photograph selected by guest host Atul Kumar was by East Belfast Mission (EBM). In...

Pictures to warm your heart (not the planet!)

Writing this on a ridiculously wet Monday morning in June, I can think of nothing more uplifting than to wander through the newly-opened online gallery of Carbon Copy’s Picture This: photographic exh...

Ed Fage: Going Round in Circles

What actually is the ‘circular economy’? Some people end up going round in circles trying to understand it. Here is one definition from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation: A circular economy is based...

Creating A Coalition

This is part of our Unlocking Local Action series of events. Community is the lens so often left out of the environmental discussion, but it’s vital in implementing lasting solutions. Rather than...

Get to know... Jo Dainton

In this chat, recorded via Zoom as part of Carbon Copy's "Get to know..." series for IGTV, Carbon Copy Communications Manager Isabelle Sparrow speaks to Jo Dainton, Reuse Manager at Bristol Waste....

Get to know... Julia Roebuck

Carbon Copy Communications Manager Isabelle Sparrow speaks to Julia Roebuck, founder of Upcycle Fashion, an initiative working to deliver circular & sharing fashion projects in communities to red...

Julia Roebuck: Clothing In Circular Communities

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

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...

Embracing The Circular Economy

“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.”...

Rob Greenland: How To Build A Movement

Our aim at Zero Waste Leeds is to build a movement. What exactly do we mean by that? In summary, for us it's largely about engaging with people from across Leeds who want to play a part in us moving...

Asher Craig: Discovering Gold

There are many existing projects, products, and initiatives in Bristol which help local communities take more effective climate action, including repair cafés, local parks groups, wildlife and f...

Beyond Sustainability

Conventional economics is degenerative. Business as usual depletes our finite natural resources faster than they can recover and we become inevitably poorer as a result. The exciting idea of ‘buildin...

Friends Of Carbon Copy: Centre For Responsible Business

Carbon Copy is privileged to receive support and advice from some of the brightest minds at Birmingham University’s Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business. Building the foundations for...