Food Security and Supply

The Audacity Of Action

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...

Spring To Action

Apr 27

Spring is when you feel like whistling, even when you get caught in the rain. It’s no coincidence that we have a bounce in our step this season: the arrival of Spring reminds us how much our menta...

Terry McTernan: Darkwood Crew

Mar 18

Terry McTernan, Project Lead and Secretary of Darkwood Crew, tells us about the work he and his team in Ferguslie Park, Renfrewshire, have been doing to reduce waste, tackle fuel poverty and improve...

Eleanor Newton: Recycling Is Great, But Reusing Is Better!

Mar 18

Today is Global Recycling Day and while recycling still has a major part to play in ending the climate crisis, we at Ground Delivery think reusing is the future. We support our local community around...

Kyle Baldock: Growing Home With Energy Garden

Mar 02

We are Energy Garden, a London-wide community benefit society made up of 30 gardens and 300 volunteers. Our aim is to support communities to cultivate resilience, cohesion, innovation and hope in a t...

Local Leaders Are The Key

Feb 17 · 10 mins

In the last year, as national governments have largely focused on managing the pandemic, it has fallen to local communities, councils and businesses, despite repeated lockdowns, to lead the drive to...

Creating A Coalition

Feb 10

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...

How to... build partnerships to benefit your local community

Jan 28

This is first in our video series where experts from different sectors share practical advice to help you with your own low-carbon initiatives. In this episode - “How to…build partnerships to ben...

Exploring The Crown Estate

Jan 21

In early December 2020, The Crown Estate announced its commitment to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2030. The Crown Estate is the Sovereign’s “public lands” - land owned by the current Monarch...

Exploring Glasgow: Fork In The Road

Dec 08 · 3 mins

Glasgow Community Food Network’s (GCFN) goal is ambitious yet simple: to give everyone in the city improved, equal access to affordable, healthy food. They aim to work with everyone who has an intere...

Carbon Copy & Community Pioneers

Dec 01

“Everyone must learn to love change,” according to management guru Tom Peters. One reason he could make a career out of pushing this idea is because, let’s be honest, most of us really don’t. A...

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...

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...

Asher Craig: Discovering Gold

Jul 21 · 2 mins

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

Jul 13 · 6 mins

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...

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