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Picture This: Conversations

Jun 26, 2021

Circular Economy Recorded as part of the launch event for Carbon Copy's Picture This: exhibition. The second photograph selected by guest host Atul Kumar was by East Belfast Mission (EBM). In...

Picture This: Conversations

Jun 24, 2021

Renewable Energy On June 17, 2021, Carbon Copy launched Picture This: with an event hosted by Trustee, Ric Casale, and environment presenter and author, Atul Kumar. Atul had the challenging ta...

Pictures to warm your heart (not the planet!)

Jun 23, 2021

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...

Lucy Stone: Between Doom & Utopia

Jun 08, 2021

The fragile parameters within which human life on this lonely planet has flourished are already starting to tip. As we hurtle through space on trajectories beyond our control, the life support system...

Lucy Stone: Commoning Our Way through the Climate Crisis

Jun 01, 2021

The pandemic has forced a retreat into our homes in the grand finale of our atomisation and separation from nature, which started with the enclosures. Physically distanced, with the fragility of the...

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...

Seize The Moment

May 24, 2021

“We find ourselves in total alignment about what needs to be done. We need to level up, we need a greener economy and, my God, we should not waste this opportunity." Tony Danker, the director...

Year One, Decade Zero

May 17, 2021

Carbon Copy is one year old this month. Born on 22 May, out of the climate emergency, our aim is to accelerate local climate action through faster learning, copying and joining of forces. We’ve been...

Spring To Action

Apr 27, 2021

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...

UNLESS

Apr 19, 2021

And all that the Lorax left here in this mess Was a small pile of rocks, with one word... UNLESS. Whatever that meant, well, I just couldn't guess. A lot of remarkable things happene...

Picture A Carbon Zero Future

Apr 12, 2021

This week we have launched submissions for our first ever online photography exhibition. Picture This: will showcase images of collective action from across the country, covering a broad range of app...

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...

Chris Coonick: Leaving No One Behind In The Energy Transition

Mar 30, 2021

The Government has set some very ambitious targets for the UK to reach net zero carbon by 2050. It is inevitable that in order to meet these targets there will be a significant increase in elec...

Copying The Future

Mar 29, 2021

The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed. So said fiction author, William Gibson. What he alluded to is the fact that the things that will be normal in the future already...

Finlay Drummond: Fuel Poor, Energy Rich

Mar 26, 2021

The west coast of Scotland has long been identified as having boundless potential for renewable energy generation. Stand on the shorefront of any village in the western isles and this becomes all too...

Halima Doski: Buildings That Shape Us

Mar 26, 2021

I don’t know about you, but the image of a sustainable building is a skyscraper covered in plants that runs on some obscure new technology and somehow produces zero waste. Anything in comparison seem...

Rachel Fraser: A Fork In The Road

Mar 26, 2021

As the climate continues to change and the urgent need for innovative solutions grows ever greater, attitudes towards what counts as ‘productive’ land use are changing too. Conservationists are now e...

Lumi Westerlund: Climate Mitigation As An Added Benefit

Mar 26, 2021

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...

Finding Common Ground

Mar 23, 2021

One of the most powerful ways that local people are working on climate action is by creating community-owned, low-carbon assets, according to a recent study entitled The Climate Commons by the IPPR t...

Ed Fage: Going Round in Circles

Mar 19, 2021

What actually is the ‘circular economy’? Some people end up going round in circles trying to understand it. Here is one definition from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation: A circular economy is based...

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