Community action/United Kingdom/Environment quality activism
This article focuses on information specific to United Kingdom. Please see our Environment quality page for a topic overview.
“I don’t drive to birdwatch any more. I walk from my house. I’m under no pressure to see anything exciting. I’ve stopped commodifying it. I just think of being out where I should be. Whenever I do that I’m really thankful for it. Nature is not there to make me feel better. It’s something we can use to help us but ultimately we have to be there for it as well. And we’ve got to make wholesale changes to how we live.” Joe Harkness [1]
Resources
Apps for sustainability
Citizens data initiative
UK AIR, air quality information resource, Defra
Maps
England Noise and Air Quality Viewer, extrium.co.uk added 16:56, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
How clean is the air where you are? foe.co.uk
NightBlight, CPRE
UK Ambient Air Quality Interactive Map, Defra UK, government site
What's in Your Backyard? Local and national environmental data from the Environment Agency
Networks
- Adfree Cities, network of groups across the UK who are concerned about the impacts of corporate advertising on our health, wellbeing, environment, climate, communities and the local economy
- Network for Clean Air
- Pesticide Action Network UK
- Zilch.org.uk, national network of individuals in the UK working to eliminate littering.
Other resources
- Noisenuisance.org, a source of advice and help for those suffering from noise pollution added 17:00, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
News and comment
see separate article: Environment quality UK news
Environmental inequality in the United Kingdom
UK environmental inequalities refers to the way in which the quality of the environment differs between different communities in the UK.
Examples of environmental inequalities in the UK include: Access to parks, green spaces and the natural environment; Exposure to flood risk; Air pollution; Exposure to harmful chemicals; Transport-related problems and Proximity to waste and landfill sites.
Responses to UK environmental inequalities have included NGO's, academia and government. W
Events
2015
September 18 - 21 Beachwatch
mcsuk.org
May 18 - 23 Noise Action Week
noiseactionweek.org.uk
April 24 - 30 Big Beach Clean-up
Marine Conservation Society
Campaigns
- River Action UK, campaigning body committed to addressing the severe problem of river pollution, added 12:40, 18 February 2021 (UTC), Nature Based Solutions from riveractionuk.com
- Badvertising, campaign to stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency, including ads for cars, airline flights and fossil fuels, added 16:41, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
- Pesticide-free towns and cities, pan-uk.org
- UK Noise Association
See also
- Environment quality
- Biodiversity UK
- Climate action UK
- Open spaces UK
- Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle UK
- Rural sustainability UK
- Trees, woodland and forest UK
- Urban sustainability UK
- local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
External links
Information from gov.uk
- Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
- Environment
- Environment Agency, public body responsible for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales. W
- Floods destroy. Be prepared.
- Local environmental quality