How can we address the challenge of too much consumption?
Your latest stories addressing excessive consumption
Library of Things
Creating places in the community where you borrow instead of buy items and learn how to use them.
Barking and Dagenham
Excessive consumption
Greater fairness
The Edible Garden Project
Engaging and educating children about healthy eating; learning how to grow, cook and eat fresh veg.
Dorset
Excessive consumption
Food security & supply
Health & wellbeing
Biodiversity & Nature
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
The Natural Curriculum Hub, Liverpool John Moores University
Promoting the use of Forest School and outdoor learning approaches.
Liverpool
Biodiversity loss
Excessive consumption
Health & wellbeing
Zero Waste Leeds
Building a movement to help make Leeds a zero waste city by 2030.
Leeds
Carbon emissions
Excessive consumption
Waste
Reuse Shop by Bristol Waste
Providing household items to residents by diverting good quality items from the waste stream.
Bristol
Carbon emissions
Excessive consumption
Waste
Cumbria Green Build & Sustainable Living Festival
Inspiring ideas for more sustainable homes, communities and businesses.
Eden
Carbon emissions
Excessive consumption
Built Environment
Biodiversity & Nature
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Think big locally
Why excessive consumption?
Earth Overshoot Day is a calculated date each year when humanity’s consumption of resources that year exceeded Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources in the same year. In 2019, the Overshoot Day for the UK was 17 May. To live within our means – to moderate our levels of resource extraction, consumption and the resulting pollution – requires a fundamental shift in our collective behaviour and starts with our own attitudes towards consuming more and more stuff. If we are resourceful in outlook and actions, then we can address the fundamental issue behind the ecological crisis of living beyond our means.
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Initiatives addressing excessive consumption
Library of Things
Creating places in the community where you borrow instead of buy items and learn how to use them.
Barking and Dagenham
Excessive consumption
Greater fairness
The Edible Garden Project
Engaging and educating children about healthy eating; learning how to grow, cook and eat fresh veg.
Dorset
Excessive consumption
Food security & supply
Health & wellbeing
Biodiversity & Nature
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
The Natural Curriculum Hub, Liverpool John Moores University
Promoting the use of Forest School and outdoor learning approaches.
Liverpool
Biodiversity loss
Excessive consumption
Health & wellbeing
Zero Waste Leeds
Building a movement to help make Leeds a zero waste city by 2030.
Leeds
Carbon emissions
Excessive consumption
Waste
Reuse Shop by Bristol Waste
Providing household items to residents by diverting good quality items from the waste stream.
Bristol
Carbon emissions
Excessive consumption
Waste
Cumbria Green Build & Sustainable Living Festival
Inspiring ideas for more sustainable homes, communities and businesses.
Eden
Carbon emissions
Excessive consumption
Built Environment
Biodiversity & Nature
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Upcycle Fashion
Delivering garment repair and upcycling workshops to increase the longevity of clothing.
Westminster
Excessive consumption
Waste
Plastic Shed
Bringing people together in Stockport to turn plastic waste into new, useful things.
Stockport
Excessive consumption
Waste
The Artful Menders
Reducing the amount of clothing sent to landfill by repairing, altering and up-cyling the clothes.
Buckinghamshire
Carbon emissions
Excessive consumption
Waste
Toiletries Amnesty
Working to end hygiene poverty & divert beauty industry waste since 2014.
East Cambridgeshire
Excessive consumption
Health & wellbeing
Waste
Circular Economy
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Glasgow Wood Recycling
Reducing the amount of wood needlessly going to landfill.
Glasgow City
Excessive consumption
Waste
Ards Allotments
Providing managed plots from farmland for people to grow their own food.
Ards and North Down
Excessive consumption
Food security & supply
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Biodiversity & Nature