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...
Are Cows Worse Than Cars? May 26, 2021 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,...