Entries are open for the 2023 Ashden Awards. Eight prizes of up to £25,000 each will supercharge climate innovation creating a fairer future, with a focus on natural climate solutions and widening access to clean energy. The awards are seeking trailblazing, empowering initiatives in the UK and low-income countries. The winning innovations will tackle inequality […]
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Redesigning and repairing design events and learning opportunities and right to repair
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New Circular Economy Action Plan shows the way to a climate-neutral, competitive economy of empowered consumers / citizens On the 11th of March, the European Commission adopted a new Circular Economy Action Plan – one of the main building blocks of the European Green Deal, Europe’s new agenda for sustainable growth. With measures along the entire life
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A Focus on Sustainable Design at London Design Festival The annual London Design Festival is soon to start. In 2018, design and many types of products (particularly of the plastic variety) have been making the headlines for all the wrong reasons. A growing number of citizens, supported by various media, are increasingly questioning the need for many
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What Are We Doing About Our Ocean Plastic Problem? The great plastic debate is never far from my mind (perhaps for many), with the UN’s World Oceans Day, seeing the Clean Waves Project “Advertising” display by Old Street Roundabout in London and speaking with the documentary makers of Uma Gota when on holiday in Brazil. It
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Repair and Fixing This is first part of a series looking at everyday activities, organisations and campaigns that support contributing to everyday sustainable change (in Reading UK and beyond) A Few Ideas for Number 1 (These are Reading based, however similar can be applicable in many other towns and cities). Broken doesn’t have to mean
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Sustainability Tips to Support Everyday Change What are the sustainability tips and steps you can take day-to-day to support moving to a more sustainable, resourceful and regenerative lifestyle (in Reading and beyond)? Did you watch Blue Planet 2 ? Perhaps you were shocked by the large-scale coral bleaching of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef or on hearing
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A GREAT PRACTICAL OPPORTUNITY TO CoNNECT, LEARN AND SHARE ON CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION AND SOLUTIONS! The Climathon movement’s 24-hour climate change hackathon is organised simultaneously in major cities around the world. Climathon 2017 is set to be the biggest hackathon of its kind in world history, taking place in 75+ cities around the world on
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Translating the Circular Economy Principles to Practical Guidance for Organisations For those of you interested in implementing the Circular Economy and wondering where to start, whether in the first stages of starting up, a concept idea or in a larger and more developed business, the BSI has recently published: BS 8001:2017 Framework for implementing the
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What are the wasteful products that really make you angry? If you’ve not already seen, the People’s Design Lab is back, brought to you by Zero Waste Europe, launching the Redesign Europe Challenge (how apt). It’s even easier now to vote for the products that need to be redesigned or phased out the market (as actually
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