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The Audacity of Action
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New year, new (green) career?
In October 2023, the Green Jobs Foundation published its annual State of the Nation report, highlighting both an increase in…
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Abidine Sakande: Should we examine the diversity of people taking part in climate action?
At Extinction Rebellion’s May 2023 protest, ’The Big One’, around Westminster, I was asked for my photograph. The photographer, who…
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Friends of Carbon Copy: Climate Emergency UK
It’s one thing to have a plan of action and another thing to act on the plan. Climate Emergency UK,…
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Circular Economy, Food and Agriculture, Good Food, Greater Fairness, Health & Wellbeing, Less Waste, Strong CommunitiesCircular Season’s Greetings
It’s that wonderful time of year, when, regardless of cultural background, many families are getting together, eating and drinking more,…
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Freya Stuart-Hopkins: The Force of Fungi
I don’t know what you were doing during September’s unprecedented heatwave in the UK, but I was on the hunt…
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Buildings & Places, Circular Economy, Clean Air, Food and Agriculture, Local Powers, Nature, Renewable Energy, Thriving Wildlife, TransportBucking Trends, Punctuating Equilibrium
We’ve recently published the latest release of greenhouse gas emissions data from the Department for Energy and Net Zero Strategy…
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Seeing Red
From a young age we are taught that different colours have different meanings. Blue is a cool, calm colour. The…
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Count Me In
Perhaps you were one of the 6 million people who took up hundreds of thousands of volunteering roles on the…
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Decade Zero, Year Three
It’s a good thing we don’t have to depend on the UK’s independent Climate Change Committee for encouraging news! The…
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Sophie Marple: From Anxiety To Action
We spoke to Sophie Marple, co-Founder of Mothers CAN, about how to stay hopeful in the face of eco-anxiety. Read…
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Friends of Carbon Copy: Climate Cymru
Carbon Copy is proud to be a member of Climate Cymru’s growing network of over 300 organisations from every sector…
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All That Nature Holds
In Zen Buddhism, a ‘koan’ is a surprising and often perplexing phrase that makes us think twice. One of the…
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Connie Muir: Croydon Community Energy
We spoke to Connie this International Women’s Day about her journey from working in the energy sector to founding and…
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23 Community Actions In 2023
People who are worried about the impact of climate change – which is three-quarters of the population in the UK…
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Caroline Aistrop: Stroud & Proud
When I first moved to Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1988, national journalists were arriving at the railway station and asking taxi…
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CC Impact Report 2022: Glimmer Of Hope
Political and economic turmoil in the UK overshadowed a more disturbing theme running through our seasonal statistics this year. During…