Flooding and Drought

Blue Green City Of The Future

John Blowes: Halton Lune Hydro

John is the Director, Project Manager and Chairman of Halton Lune Hydro – a community owned hydro-electric project generating around 750MWh of electricity per year – situated on the River Lune, just...

Keeping Our Heads Above Water

When it comes to flooding in the UK, we seem to be heading for a perfect storm.  Sea levels continue to rise. Global warming will cause warmer, wetter winters. Extreme rainfall events both in su...

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...

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...

Exploring The Crown Estate

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...

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...

Calling Up A Conservation Corps

Many of our towns and cities are located in biodiversity-rich areas – beside a river, along the coastline or on a floodplain – where the abundance of life favoured the location for settlement. With d...

Blurring The Boundaries

Architects, planners and we as residents have control over our built environment and have the power to reinvent the role of greenery within our towns and cities. By changing how we design and live in...