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Bemerton Corner We planted a meadow in a council estate. In three days.   A chance encounter in the comments on an Instagram post led to neighbours planting a wild meadow on the edge of a...

Composting Composting is one of the great things people can do at their houses for sustainable living. Food waste and other organic material decays releasing methane which contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. In composting, food waste...

Community Home Travel Shopping Food Energy Community Empowering communities Enabling communities to lead local renewal projects with a neighbourhood-scale approach is the most cost-effective way to ensure our villages, towns and cities are fit for the...

Energy Home – it’s somewhere we need to feel safe and warm. That involves using energy to heat or cool your property, generate hot water and power all your appliances. Around 22% of the UK’s carbon...

Food Food is responsible, worldwide, for around 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, 60% of forest and biodiversity loss, and 70% of all freshwater removed from rivers and lakes. These numbers are predicted to grow if we...

Shopping The weekly shop of recent times is, quite simply, riddled with plastic. We’ve all been there: the frustration of realizing you forgot the reusable grocery bags again, and being horrified by the sheer amount of...

Travel We all know about the huge emissions produced by our relentless need, and want, for travel. But it’s a part of life now, so short of avoiding it completely – which has got much easier...

Making your home part of the solution Your home may seem like just one tiny element of the climate puzzle – but when you realise that’s where we spend most of our time, and multiply that...

Food Sources Climate change Plastic pollution Forests Oceans Energy sources Food The challenges Meat and dairy products have been a source of food for millennia. But modern industrial farming practices and the sheer number of animals...

Energy Sources Climate change Plastic pollution Forests Oceans Energy sources Food The challenges The biggest single cause of the climate problem is our burning of fossil fuels. We burn oil, coal, and gas to keep ourselves...

Oceans Climate change Plastic pollution Forests Oceans Energy sources Food Water covers over 70% of the planet’s surface. The role it plays in maintaining Earth as a liveable habitat cannot be overstated: it regulates global temperatures,...

Forests Climate change Plastic pollution Forests Oceans Energy sources Food The challenges Forests are home to an enormous 80% of the world’s land biodiversity, including a mindblowing array of trees, plants, animals, birds, insects and fungi...

Plastic Pollution Climate change Plastic pollution Forests Oceans Energy sources Food The challenges Plastic is poisoning our planet. We have alternative technologies ready to replace it, but still we insist on using this totally unnecessary substance...

Climate Change Climate change Plastic pollution Forests Oceans Energy sources Food The challenges Our climate is breaking down. Rising seas and extreme weather events are costing lives and putting tens of millions of people around the...