How can we address the challenge of technology and innovation?
Your latest stories addressing tech and innovation
Harborough Energy
Helping to deliver affordable community-owned clean energy across Harborough district.
Harborough
Carbon emissions
Greater fairness
Tech & Innovation
Energy
Built Environment
Circular Economy
Big Solar Co-op
Making community solar PV viable across a huge range of sites.
UK
Carbon emissions
Tech & Innovation
Ty Solar Zero Carbon homes
Addressing energy poverty and wellbeing in housing via the use of solar energy and timber build.
Pembrokeshire
Carbon emissions
Health & wellbeing
Tech & Innovation
Built Environment
Circular Economy
Energy
District Eating
Utilising waste heat and CO2 for horticultural projects that create jobs and produce food.
Barnsley
Carbon emissions
Food security & supply
Tech & Innovation
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Circular Economy
Energy
Energy Superhub Oxford
Demonstrating an integrated approach to decarbonising power, transport and heat in Oxford.
Oxford
Air pollution
Carbon emissions
Tech & Innovation
Energy
Built Environment
Transport
Yes! Recycling
Recycling complex polymer waste instead of sending to landfill.
Buckinghamshire
Excessive consumption
Tech & Innovation
Waste
Think big locally
Why technology and innovation?
New technology and innovation has its role to play. It is a potent force in reshaping how we live and work together more resourcefully. Ideally, technology and innovation enable us to be more connected, to live better on less instead of better on more, and to make fewer resources stretch further. It can also put more people in control and enable a distributed capacity for making change happen faster, everywhere.
Fixing Our Throwaway Economy
Hear how The Fixing Factory is reducing electronic waste whilst tackling digital inequality and climate change, and training the ‘fixers of the future’.
Initiatives addressing tech and innovation
UKBIC & West Midlands GigaFactory
Enhancing the local battery ecosystem, from research to manufacturing.
Coventry
Air pollution
Carbon emissions
Tech & Innovation
Coventry City Council – Solar PV Self-Supply
Reducing carbon emissions by self generation of electricity for public buildings in Coventry.
Coventry
Carbon emissions
Excessive consumption
Tech & Innovation
StorTera
Demonstrating a cost-effective smart grid for business parks with energy storage and smart controls.
Blaenau Gwent
Carbon emissions
Tech & Innovation
Chelveston Renewable Energy & Innovation Park
Developing an innovation park powered by 100% renewable energy.
East Northamptonshire
Carbon emissions
Tech & Innovation
Waste
Energy
Built Environment
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Belper Clusters EV Charging
Demonstrating the feasibility of an electric vehicle infrastructure in a conservation area.
Amber Valley
Air pollution
Carbon emissions
Tech & Innovation
UFU Climate Change Competition
Making farming more sustainable and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Mid Ulster
Carbon emissions
Food security & supply
Tech & Innovation
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Biodiversity & Nature
Chesterfield Repair Café
Helping local residents repair household items to upskill and reduce landfill.
Chesterfield
Excessive consumption
Tech & Innovation
Waste
Sedgeberrow Sustainable and Manageable Energy
Energy mapping and master-planning for a Worcestershire village community.
Wychavon
Carbon emissions
Tech & Innovation
Built Environment
Biodiversity & Nature
Energy
Rushcliffe Oaks Crematorium
Providing an environmentally friendly, contemporary space to remember loved ones and celebrate life.
Rushcliffe
Air pollution
Carbon emissions
Tech & Innovation
Built Environment
Biodiversity & Nature
Energy
Notts Green Rewards
Helping Nottinghamshire and Nottingham City residents take action to reduce their carbon footprint.
Ashfield
Carbon emissions
Tech & Innovation
Waste
Energy
Biodiversity & Nature
Transport
Sixmilewater Leisure Centre Solar Panels
Installing a solar panel array at Sixmilewater Leisure Centre.
Antrim and Newtownabbey
Carbon emissions
Excessive consumption
Tech & Innovation
RCV Solar Panels
Reducing our carbon footprint with the addition of solar panels on our vehicles.
Ards and North Down
Air pollution
Carbon emissions
Tech & Innovation