How can we address the challenge of too much consumption?
Your latest stories addressing excessive consumerism
Library of Things
Create places in the community where you borrow instead of buy items and can learn how to use them.
Consumerism
Depleted resources Greater fairness
The Edible Garden Project
To engage & educate children about healthy eating; learning how to grow, cook and eat fresh veg.
Food supply
Consumerism
Health & wellbeing
The Natural Curriculum Hub, Liverpool John Moores University
To promote the use of Forest School & outdoor learning approaches by trainee teachers & educators.
Biodiversity loss
Consumerism
Health & wellbeing
Zero Waste Leeds
Build a movement to help make Leeds a zero waste city by 2030.
Carbon emissions
Consumerism
Waste
Reuse Shop by Bristol Waste
Provide low cost household items to residents by diverting good quality items from the waste stream.
Carbon emissions
Consumerism
Waste
Cumbria Green Build & Sustainable Living Festival
To run events to help people cut their carbon footprints in all sorts of ways.
Carbon emissions
Consumerism
Depleted resources
Buildings
Nature
Land Use
Think big locally
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 U.K. 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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Library of Things
Create places in the community where you borrow instead of buy items and can learn how to use them.
Consumerism
Depleted resources Greater fairness
The Edible Garden Project
To engage & educate children about healthy eating; learning how to grow, cook and eat fresh veg.
Food supply
Consumerism
Health & wellbeing
The Natural Curriculum Hub, Liverpool John Moores University
To promote the use of Forest School & outdoor learning approaches by trainee teachers & educators.
Biodiversity loss
Consumerism
Health & wellbeing
Zero Waste Leeds
Build a movement to help make Leeds a zero waste city by 2030.
Carbon emissions
Consumerism
Waste
Reuse Shop by Bristol Waste
Provide low cost household items to residents by diverting good quality items from the waste stream.
Carbon emissions
Consumerism
Waste
Cumbria Green Build & Sustainable Living Festival
To run events to help people cut their carbon footprints in all sorts of ways.
Carbon emissions
Consumerism
Depleted resources
Buildings
Nature
Land Use
Upcycle Fashion
To deliver garment repair & upcycling workshops to increase the the longevity of clothing.
Consumerism
Depleted resources
Waste
Plastic Shed
Bringing people together in Stockport to turn plastic waste into new, useful things.
The Artful Menders
To reduce the amount of clothing sent to landfill by repairing, altering and up-cyling the clothes.
Carbon emissions
Consumerism
Waste
