Health | Wellbeing

Caroline Aistrop: Stroud & Proud

When I first moved to Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1988, national journalists were arriving at the railway station and asking taxi drivers to ‘take me to the trees’. The drivers knew exactly where to...

Running Out Of Time

From Seed To Solar

Jacinta Challinor: Wrexham Green Infrastructure Project

We hear from Jacinta about the amazing work she and her team have been doing in Wrexham, Wales, to improve and expand green spaces for the local community. Recorded for International Women's Day...

Becky Baines: Back To School

Imagine you are eight years old again. Imagine seeing photos of burning forests and words such as "CODE RED for humanity". Imagine living in fear of the Earth ending.  Now reflect upon the fact...

Picture This: Conversations

Carbon Zero Transport Recorded as part of the launch event for Carbon Copy's Picture This: exhibition. The third photograph selected by guest host Atul Kumar was by Car-Free Norwich. In this p...

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

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...

Lumi Westerlund: Climate Mitigation As An Added Benefit

There is no denying that there is a pressing need for an active and immediate response to the changing global climate, but joining the efforts to tackle environmental issues is understood by many to...

Terry McTernan: Darkwood Crew

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...

How to... run a community share offer

Communities all over the UK are taking control of their energy and heating needs. But how do you raise money to fund solar panels, ground source heat pumps or hydro-electric turbines? In this int...

Kyle Baldock: Growing Home With Energy Garden

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...

Marking The End Of The Pandemic

How will we mark the end of this pandemic? How will we pay tribute to so many lives lost? Walking through town on my daily exercise I pass a blue plaque, a war memorial, a fountain, and statues an...

Local Leaders Are The Key

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

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...

Energising Your Community

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...

Amy Reid: Pioneering the community heat pump revolution with CREW Energy

We’re CREW Energy – a Wandsworth- and Merton-based community energy co-operative delivering low-carbon solutions, energy advice and community outreach to south-west London. It was formed in 2014 by a...

Carbon Copy & Community Pioneers

“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...

Exploring Cornwall: Sustainability At The Centre Of Healthcare

Last month, the NHS in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly officially declared a climate emergency, joining forces with Cornwall Council in their commitment to become net-zero carbon emissions by 2030....

Get to know... Sharon Lashley

Carbon Copy Communications Manager Isabelle Sparrow speaks to Sharon Lashley, an environmentalist specialising in renewable energy and waste management, and Managing Director of Climate Action North,...