Transport

The Audacity Of Action

Picture This: Conversations

Jun 29, 2021

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...

Which is the bigger contributor to climate warming, cows or cars? To answer this question, it’s helpful to unbundle greenhouse gases into their main constituents and recap how we (should) compare the...

How to... raise funds for your community initiative

Mar 30, 2021

Funding is a key element required to launch a successful community initiative. In this bitesize interactive session, we get top tips on securing the financial support you need, from Richard Tynen, Di...

Lucas Lyko: A to B, Carbon Free

Mar 19, 2021

Making transport work for us and the planet starts with changes at home. With transport continuing to make up a third of the UK’s carbon emissions, our sustained demand for hypermobility and goods ma...

Kyle Baldock: Growing Home With Energy Garden

Mar 02, 2021

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, 2021

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...

Boosting The Local Economy

Feb 17, 2021

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...

Hope From Action

Dec 16, 2020

“The Audacity of Action” is the name of the Carbon Copy blog about local climate action around the UK. It’s a nod to Barack Obama’s inspiring book, “The Audacity of Hope”, and the phrase he used in o...

Carbon Copy & Community Pioneers

Dec 01, 2020

“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...

Adam Tranter: It’s Time To Choose Our Future!

Sep 24, 2020

Just 6% of people want to go back to the way things were, cites a recent YouGov poll. It’s an incredible but believable stat given what we’ve all learned about ourselves and our communities during lo...

Matt White: Norfolk Car-Free Day 2020

Sep 22, 2020

2019 saw the inaugural Norwich Car-Free Day. Our plan to expand and grow seemed so simple back then, but - of course - COVID has thrown some gigantic spanners in all the works. COVID cast a shadow...

The People’s Path To Net Zero

Sep 15, 2020

“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...

Bicycle Mayors

Aug 02, 2020

We cannot reduce overall carbon emissions and meet legislated national targets without addressing head on the UK’s biggest emitter, the transport sector. The main source of these emissions are the pe...

Can We Walk Away From Owning A Car?

Jul 29, 2020

It’s mind-boggling when you think about it. As much as fifty percent - yes, half - of inner-city land consists of roads and parking spaces, reports the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. In one of the UK’s...

From Paris To Home

Jun 27, 2020

What road are we on and how should we travel to get to our destination? The ambition of the Paris Agreement is for humanity to emit no more greenhouse gases than the planet can absorb, by 2050. To ac...

Coming Up For Air

Jun 25, 2020

‘What if we had this sort of air quality not because everyone is forced to sit at home but because we managed the shift to clean transport and energy?’ So said Lauri Myllyvirta, lead author of a C...

Reallocating Roads

Jun 24, 2020

If cities belong to people, why are we building them for cars? Before the advent of the automobile, city streets were human spaces. They were thoroughfares and public places where people would meet,...

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