This page is one of a few central locations for testing out the use of Template:News. As of Jan 2022, based on the spread of news across CASwiki the locations are News - News by location - News UK - News by UK location
No one is safe until everyone is safe – we applied it to the pandemic, but why not our economy? Rowan Williams, The Guardian (Dec 31, 2022)- The Guardian view on buses: a subsidy for £2 fares is money well spent, The Guardian (Dec 22, 2022, UK) — Making mass transport more affordable will both help people now and reduce carbon emissions
- Eight fun projects helping the UK boost biodiversity, Positive News (Dec 22, 2022, UK)
- What’s this unfamiliar feeling I have after the Cop15 meeting? It might just be hope, Craig Bennett, The Guardian (Dec 20, 2022, UK)
- Richest people in UK ‘use more energy flying’ than poorest do overall, carbonbrief.org (Dec 14, 2022, UK) — The wealthiest people in the UK burn through more energy flying than the poorest use in every aspect of their lives, according to new research.
- The UK needs to plant 120 million trees per year by 2025. Can it be done?, Positive News (Dec 02, 2022, UK)
- About 50 MPs sign amendment to scrap mandatory local housing targets for councils, The Guardian (Nov 22, 2022)
- Majority of Britons say UK should pay for climate action in poor countries, The Guardian (Nov 17, 2022)
- England’s housing strategy carries a high carbon cost – unless politicians are willing to change plans, The Conversation (Nov 10, 2022) — "our research demonstrates that, based on current trends, England’s housing strategy could consume our entire carbon budget by 2050."
- How might digital tech help not hinder local action?, experiments.friendsoftheearth.uk (Nov 08, 2022)
- If more houses had water butts, it could help with drought, flooding and water pollution, The Conversation (Nov 02, 2022)
- Lost rainforest could be revived across 20% of Great Britain, The Guardian (Oct 21, 2022)
- To address climate change, lifestyles must change – but the government’s reluctance to help is holding us back., The Conversation (Oct 13, 2022) — “higher-income households which typically have a larger carbon footprint must take correspondingly larger steps to reduce their emissions”
- 81% of Britons believe nature is under threat and needs urgent action to protect it. We need a People's Plan For Nature, The Daily Alternative (Oct 11, 2022)
- Majority of UK supports these bold, transformative policies, Now Then (Oct 03, 2022) — The Common Ground found a progressive consensus in favour of climate action, rent controls and a Universal Basic Income, by Sam Gregory
- Truss’s anti-environmentalism has awakened the sleeping green giant of British politics, Guy Shrubsole, guyshrubsole.substack.com (Sep 28, 2022)
- I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health. Sanah Ahsan, The Guardian (Sep 06, 2022)
- Saving the high street: three ways community businesses can kickstart a revival, The Conversation (Aug 25, 2022)
- Britain’s wetlands are the key to saving us from drought, wildfires and even floods, The Guardian (Aug 12, 2022)
- Britain’s notoriously wet and cold climate is changing – you won’t like what replaces it, The Conversation (Aug 09, 2022)
- Community Calling: People want more influence, New Local (Aug 04, 2022) — There is an appetite for more local control – 79% of people think the best decisions are made when the people who will be affected are closely involved in the process and 75% think that allowing communities to have more of a say in decisions that affect their area would be more effective than decisions taken centrally.
- Hot cities and cool wetlands, wwt.org.uk (Aug 03, 2022)
- Climate change: UK sea level rise speeding up - Met Office, BBC News (Jul 28, 2022)
- How the women’s Euros 2022 beat the sceptics to breathe new life into football, The Daily Alternative (Jul 25, 2022)
- We call for land strategy and new planning rules to guard food security, CPRE (Jul 20, 2022) — There’s been a hundred-fold increase in our best farmland lost to development in little more than a decade, new CPRE research has found. And 60% of our finest agricultural land is at risk of flooding. As a result, we’re telling government we need a land strategy and new planning rules to safeguard our food security
- Britain is boiling – and the government wants to dramatically expand UK aviation, The Guardian (Jul 19, 2022) — Its ‘jet zero’ strategy relies on the invention of pie in the sky technologies to tackle dangerous airline emissions
- Govt’s climate strategy deemed "unlawful" in historic ruling, Friends of the Earth (Jul 18, 2022) — Following victory in court, the government will now have to revise its climate strategy to show how key emissions reduction targets will be met.
- Recognising communities and citizens as generative participants in a pluralistic and shared future, and as the people best placed to organise and produce solutions to the problems that affect them, Neighbourhood Democracy Movement (Jul 18, 2022) — Responding to the New Local NHS Paradigms Report
- Five ways to help wildlife in heatwaves, The Conversation (Jul 18, 2022)
- Nearly 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging are thrown away by UK households every year, and just 12% recycled in the UK., The Big Plastic Count (Jul 12, 2022) — The Big Plastic Count has revealed that 88% our household waste is being burnt, buried and dumped overseas.
- Rooting for farmers, Wicked Leeks (Jul 04, 2022) — Former barrister and author Sarah Langford tells Nina Pullman why she wrote the defence case for farming and why the regenerative movement offers an escape from exploitive agribusiness.
- Hedgehog conservation: how to make a garden nest box appealing – new research, The Conversation (Jul 04, 2022)
- UK government told to insulate more homes, BBC News (Jun 29, 2022) — Official advisors the Climate Change Committee say The UK government must drive down energy bills and reduce climate-warming emissions by insulating more homes.
- Competing Long Term Strategies, Alternative Editorial (Jun 26, 2022)
- Welcome to wild Britain: the beavers are back and there’s more to come, The Guardian (Jun 20, 2022)
- Getting Coherent, Alternative Editorial (Jun 19, 2022)
- The Work Project: Imagining Transition, UCL IIPP Blog, medium.com/ (May 31, 2022)
- Rewilding, or just a greenwashed land grab? It all depends on who benefits, Eleanor Salter, The Guardian (May 28, 2022)
- Neighbourhood green space is in rapid decline, deepening both the climate and mental health crises, The Conversation (May 18, 2022)
- How filling the UK’s unused land with fruit and veg could help make us and our environment healthier - and help fight inequality, The Conversation (May 17, 2022)
- Massive majorities in the UK value their community members most to sort out problems (and MPs least). Power to the lowest level is the cry, The Daily Alternative (May 16, 2022)
- Bee highways: how they work and why we need them, The Conversation (May 12, 2022) — Includes map of the bee highway
- God’s own gardens: why churchyards are some of our wildest nature sites, The Guardian (May 06, 2022)
- Charity trustees can invest for positive environmental impact – landmark legal ruling, Pioneers Post (May 05, 2022)
- Bugs Matter survey finds that UK flying insects have declined by nearly 60% in less than 20 years, Buglife (May 05, 2022)
- Five ways the new sustainability and climate change strategy for schools in England doesn’t match up to what young people actually want, The Conversation (May 04, 2022)
- How are local councils tackling climate change?, BBC News (May 01, 2022)
- Extinction Rebellion scientists: why we glued ourselves to a government department, The Conversation (Apr 27, 2022)
- No space for a heat pump? Here’s how your whole street could get off gas heating, The Conversation (Apr 11, 2022)
- Why the government needs to make sure net zero is in local plans, CPRE (Mar 25, 2022)
- Local citizens’ assemblies in the UK: a second report card, constitution-unit.com (Mar 25, 2022)
- Plum job: UK public asked to track fruit trees for climate study, theguardian.com (Mar 19, 2022)
- Community businesses emerged stronger from pandemic, Locality research reveals, thenews.coop (Mar 16, 2022)
- There are solutions to the food crisis. But ploughing up Britain isn’t one of them. George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Mar 16, 2022)
- Broad civil society coalition asks government to cut fossil fuels to also help with cost of living, greenpeace.org.uk (Mar 15, 2022) — 39 organisations spanning environmental campaigns, social justice and fuel poverty have written to the government calling for greater support for vulnerable households and for decarbonisation to help bolster the UKs energy security. The open letter, signed by groups ranging from Mums for Lungs, Environmental Justice Foundation, to Save the Children UK, calls on the Prime Minister, the Chancellor and the Business Secretary to ensure the upcoming energy independence plan tackles the climate emergency, gets the UK off gas, addresses air pollution, lowers bills and protects vulnerable households. “This is a fossil fuel crisis, and new fossil fuels from the likes of fracking or new North Sea oil and gas aren’t going to solve our problems." Rebecca Newsom, Greenpeace UK
- UK ministers urged to promote e-bikes to tackle health and climate crises, theguardian.com (Mar 13, 2022)
- Democracy Made in England: Where Next for English Local Government?, electoral-reform.org.uk (Mar 09, 2022) — "It is not for the centre at Westminster to decide how local communities should see themselves and how they should be governed, but to set out how those communities can choose their own governance, how citizens can themselves reinvigorate local democracy." Dr Jess Garland, ERS Director of Research and Policy
- The “cost-of-living crisis” is real and fixable by wealth taxes. In the meantime, community energy groups and cooperative farms provide help on food and fuel, The Alternative UK (Mar 06, 2022)
- UK not prepared for climate impacts, warns IPCC expert, theguardian.com (Mar 04, 2022)
- Hedgehog highways: what are they and how to help build one, The Conversation (Mar 04, 2022)
- Net Zero Strategy: legal challenge granted permission, Friends of the Earth (Mar 02, 2022)
- New grants to help communities tackle food and climate change, sustainweb.org (Feb 28, 2022) — Grants of up to £5,000 are open to any local food partnership, local authority or community group in the UK.
- Building Community Action Through Climate Hubs, Transition Together (Feb 27, 2022, Surrey) — guide to community-led climate hubs from Zero Carbon Guildford
- Green space access is not equal in the UK – and the government isn’t doing enough to change that, The Conversation (Feb 25, 2022)
- If we use this website to identify our "Assets of Community Value", communities will exert more power over local land, The Alternative UK (Feb 19, 2022)
- Give 1.9 million more people access to publically funded care and create almost a million new jobs through a new universal care service, New Economics Foundation (Feb 18, 2022) — Planned government investment to transform social care amounts to just 6% of what is needed, despite 1.8 million with unmet care needs.
- Here’s how far people want the government to limit their freedoms for the sake of the planet – new research, The Conversation (Feb 17, 2022)
- Who owns Britain’s underground heat? Answering this could help slash energy bills and carbon emissions, The Conversation (Feb 16, 2022)
- More than eight million trees lost this winter in the UK, BBC News (Feb 16, 2022)
- We're advancing towards a 4-day week - from above (government prototypes) and below (individuals and companies), The Alternative UK (Feb 15, 2022)
- New greenfield housing still designed around cars, report finds, BBC News (Feb 07, 2022)
- A tussle over tree planting, Wicked Leeks (Feb 04, 2022)
- How community ownership can secure the UK’s food security through buying family farms, Stir to Action (Feb 03, 2022) — How a national crisis of family-owned farms presents an opportunity for a new generation of community owners
- Cranes: why Britain’s tallest bird just had its best breeding year since the 1600s, The Conversation (Feb 03, 2022)
- What do we mean by public luxury? Glorious spaces that people can use and enjoy freely, cutting consumption and increasing connection, The Alternative UK (Jan 28, 2022)
- UK Sharing Libraries Network: Strengthening a Movement, networkofwellbeing.org (Jan 24, 2022)
- 'Chemical cocktail’ polluting English rivers - MPs warn, BBC News (Jan 13, 2022)
- A startling UK map showing how much we use land for animal agriculture - and how much solar is crowded out, The Alternative UK (Jan 24, 2022)
