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Climate change: Seasonal shifts causing 'chaos' for UK nature, BBC News (Dec 27, 2023, UK)- England has ‘twice as many empty homes as families stuck in B&Bs’, theguardian.com (Dec 24, 2023, UK)
- The secret ingredient for optimum health? Kindness, says this fitness expert, positive.news (Dec 19, 2023, UK)
- How a programme giving millions to residents to improve their neighbourhoods also risks entrenching inequality, theconversation.com (Dec 19, 2023, UK)
- ‘Getting a bike was a resurrection’: the project donating bicycles to refugees, positive.news (Dec 18, 2023, UK)
- Climate groups begin legal actions against Rosebank North Sea oil project, theguardian.com (Dec 18, 2023, UK)
- UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C, theguardian.com (Dec 12, 2023, UK)
- UK ministers ‘misled public’ when scrapping air quality regulations, theguardian.com (Dec 06, 2023, UK)
- ‘It reaches deep inside people’: the climate choirs singing for the planet, positive.news (Dec 06, 2023, UK)
- Chris Packham launches legal challenge over UK’s watering down of climate policies, theguardian.com (Dec 04, 2023, UK)
- Actors and academics criticise UK over climate ‘madness’ and limits on protest, theguardian.com (Nov 24, 2023, UK)
- First Past the Post Voting System Barrier to Urgent Action on Climate Crisis, Major Environmental Groups Say, bylinetimes.com (Nov 21, 2023, UK)
- The UK's score on reported "democratic wellbeing" is extremely low, says Carnegie Trust. We have answers for that..., The Daily Alternative (Nov 10, 2023, UK)
- Monsters of the road: what should the UK do about SUVs?, theguardian.com (Nov 05, 2023, UK)
- The Wildlife Trusts publish list of the UK’s Government’s broken promises to nature, wildlifetrusts.org (Nov 03, 2023, UK)
- The rogue rewilders taking Britain’s biodiversity into their own hands, positive.news (Oct 31, 2023, UK)
- Claimants take UK government to court over inadequate climate adaptation, theguardian.com (Nov 01, 2023, UK)
- Rescue mission for UK rainforests’ weird treasures, BBC News (Oct 21, 2023, UK)
- Low income UK homes ‘should be given free heat pumps’ to meet climate targets, according to the government’s advisers., theguardian.com (Oct 18, 2023, UK)
- Labour’s housing plans will not solve the affordability crisis, theguardian.com (Oct 15, 2023, UK)
- Labour’s supposedly bold ‘new towns’ idea has been tried before. And it failed, Simon Jenkins, theguardian.com (Oct 12, 2023, South East England; East of England; UK) — These vast sums should be spent improving our ‘second-tier’ cities – not on costly, carbon-guzzling developments in the rural south
- Sport England tells its sports: funding will depend on fighting climate crisis, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2023, UK)
- Dear Keir Starmer: here’s what you should know about Sunak’s attack on climate policy – he lied and lied, Fiona Harvey, theguardian.com (Oct 09, 2023, UK)
- We have a date in court with the Government to demand honesty about net zero, goodlawproject.org (Oct 06, 2023, UK)
- Nature crisis: One in six species at risk of extinction in Great Britain, BBC News (Sep 27, 2023, UK)
- Rishi Sunak has ripped up decades of cross-party consensus on climate change, theconversation.com (Sep 26, 2023, UK)
- Citizens are hungry for change, ffcc.co.uk (Sep 25, 2023, UK) — New report shows the UK public overwhelmingly back state intervention to improve the food system
- Farmers like me can contribute to a hedge fund for nature at little cost to themselves, theguardian.com (Sep 21, 2023, UK)
- Half of Britain’s fruit and veg growers ‘may go out of business within a year’, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Sep 19, 2023, UK)
- Al Gore leads international chorus of disapproval for Sunak’s climate U-turn, theguardian.com (Sep 21, 2023, UK)
- How Sunak’s back-pedalling on net zero could damage efforts to decarbonise Britain’s homes, theconversation.com (Sep 21, 2023, UK)
- Lords sink plan to axe homebuilding pollution rules, BBC news (Sep 14, 2023, UK)
- Fossil fuel companies have a secret weapon. Here’s how Britain can help take it away from them, Cleodie Rickard, theguardian.com (Sep 13, 2023, UK)
- New report reveals nearly a quarter of UK shopping basket at high risk from climate change, mediacentre.christianaid.org.uk (Sep 13, 2023, UK)
- ‘Unacceptable’: how raw sewage has affected rivers in England and Wales – in maps, theguardian.com (Sep 12, 2023, UK)
- Win for local communities as NDMP scrutiny amendment is passed in the Lords, cpre.org.uk (Sep 07, 2023, UK)
- Why more powerful communities are more connected communities, thecaresfamily.org.uk (Sep 04, 2023, UK)
- More voters annoyed by cars than by traffic calming measures, polling suggests, opendemocracy.net (Aug 29, 2023, UK)
- The all-female, grassroots network moving millions away from fossil fuels, positive.news (Aug 25, 2023, UK)
- ‘An utter disgrace’: 90% of England’s most precious river habitats blighted by raw sewage and farming pollution, theguardian.com (Aug 12, 2023, UK)
- Don’t just wait for the water firms – three things we can do right now to clean up Britain’s rivers, theconversation.com (Aug 11, 2023, UK)
- Water bills: Fight for money back over sewage leaks begins, BBC News (Aug 09, 2023, UK)
- Where have all the buses gone? Their neglect is an English national failure, John Harris, theguardian.com (Aug 06, 2023, UK)
- People in the UK are volunteering less – it’s not surprising and could get worse, theconversation.com (Aug 04, 2023, UK)
- How community markets for all could be a sustainable alternative to food banks, theconversation.com (Aug 02, 2023, UK)
- Have you liberated your garden from the tyranny of tarmac?, positive.news (Jul 31, 2023, UK)
- Berlin spends nearly €1 billion on public arts & spaces for the city (twice as much as for all of England), The Daily Alternative (Jul 25, 2023, UK)
- Nature groups prepared to ‘mobilise’ 20m members over UK climate policy, theguardian.com (Jul 29, 2023, UK)
- Three places offering free holidays for people who really need it, positive.news (Jul 21, 2023, UK)
- To understand the right’s climate backlash, look no further than its monstering of Natural England, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Jul 20, 2023, UK) — MPs and newspapers alike are attacking the public body charged with conserving the English countryside for doing just that
- Why the UK needs a new law to put the planet over profit, friendsoftheearth.uk (Jul 19, 2023, UK)
- 20% of people in England live in rural areas. Pam Barrett is showing the powers those communities need to keep them healthy and happy, The Daily Alternative (Jul 17, 2023, UK)
- How did the social care system end up in crisis and how can it be fixed? Expert Q&A, The Conversation (Jul 05, 2023, UK)
- High costs deterring legal challenges in England and Wales to protect environment, NGOs say, The Guardian (Jun 28, 2023, UK)
- Halt new roads and developments adding to emissions, advisers to tell UK government, The Guardian (Jun 23, 2023, UK) — “scandal” new homes that would continue to contribute to climate change through heating, cooking and poor insulation were still being built, says Lord Deben
- Campaigners win right to challenge England’s food strategy over climate crisis, The Guardian (Jun 16, 2023, UK)
- 'Not fit for purpose': Over 100 firms call for UK planning reforms to support nature and net zero, businessgreen.com (Jun 15, 2023, UK)
- How universal basic income’s impact on people’s finances could transform the nation’s health, The Conversation (Jun 12, 2023, UK)
- Universal basic income of £1,600 a month to be trialled in two places in England, The Guardian (Jun 04, 2023, UK)
- Ministers face legal challenge over cuts to walking and cycling investment in England, The Guardian (Jun 05, 2023, UK)
- Rooftops can provide over half our solar energy targets, report shows, cpre.org.uk (May 23, 2023, UK)
- Riverford completes sale of shares from Guy Singh-Watson, Wicked Leeks (May 19, 2023, UK) — Organic veg box company is celebrating five years of employee ownership by completing the buyout of founder Guy Singh-Watson.
- The road to collective action, Wicked Leeks (May 17, 2023, UK)
- New People’s Plan for Food seeks input, Wicked Leeks (May 04, 2023, UK)
- At last, England’s dying rivers are an election issue – and the danger isn’t just sewage, George Monbiot, The Guardian (May 03, 2023, UK)
- Wealth tax of 0.5% could cover UK’s share of loss and damage fund, says charity, The Guardian (May 12, 2023, UK)
- Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time, BBC News (May 11, 2023)
- Creating a genuine national transport policy, Transport Action Network (May 05, 2023, UK)
- The Former Extinction Rebellion Campaigners Rallying A Climate Majority, desmog.com (May 03, 2023, UK)
- Local democracy threatened by levelling up bill’s key measures, warns CPRE, cpre.org.uk (May 01, 2023, UK)
- The African choirs tackling loneliness in England’s care homes, positive.news (Apr 26, 2023, UK)
- Extinction Rebellion: Climate activists stage Earth Day demonstration, BBC News (Apr 24, 2023, UK)
- Your favourite walk may have an expiry date, The Conversation (Apr 17, 2023, UK)
- ACAN @ Futurebuild 2023, architectscan.org (Apr 14, 2023, UK)
- David Attenborough’s online Wild Isles isn’t too hard-hitting for TV – it doesn’t go far enough, Dave Goulson, The Guardian (Apr 10, 2023, UK)
- Levelling up perspectives from the community to the national level, powertochange.org.uk (Mar 20, 2023, UK) — Report on 'levelling up' from Power to Change reveals that some progress has been made for communities, but there is little impact being made, leading to public pessimism.
- Climate groups taking government to court over “dangerous” aviation strategy, wearepossible.org (Mar 28, 2023, UK)
- The People’s Plan For Nature has finally landed - seeking a “Union” of forces, to ensure nature is at the heart of all policy, The Daily Alternative (Mar 25, 2023, UK)
- Top lawyers defy bar to declare they will not prosecute peaceful climate protesters, The Guardian (Mar 24, 2023, UK)
- UK criticised for failing to join UN-backed river restoration scheme, newscientist.com (Mar 24, 2023, UK)
- People’s Plan for Nature arrives, saveourwildisles.org.uk (Mar 23, 2023, UK) — A world-first, a plan created for the people, by the people of the UK – a vision for the future of nature, and the actions we must all take to protect and renew it.
- New report reveals "growing, invisible homelessness crisis in our countryside, English Rural (Mar 17, 2023, UK)
- Still time to save Our Wild Isles, say UK conservation charities, BBC News (Mar 13, 2023, UK)
- The truth about Britain’s wildlife crisis is stark: the timid BBC must let David Attenborough tell it loud and clear, Geoffrey Lean, The Guardian (Mar 10, 2023, UK)
- Does economic growth lead to higher happiness?, New Local (Mar 09, 2023, UK)
- Court restrictions on climate protesters ‘deeply concerning’, say leading lawyers, The Guardian (Mar 08, 2023, UK)
- Builders are making thumping profits by over-charging for new homes – new findings, The Conversation (Mar 07, 2023, UK)
- Cabinet ministers warned of legal action over UK’s failure to tackle climate crisis, The Guardian (Mar 04, 2023, UK)
- Why England urgently needs a roads reset, Transport Action Network (Mar 03, 2023, UK)
- Regenerative Thinking: The problem with new housing, Wicked Leeks (Mar 02, 2023, UK)
- Why Britain’s rivers could be one solution to the energy crisis, positive.news (Feb 27, 2023, UK)
- Today’s climate activist ‘criminals’ are tomorrow’s heroes: silencing them in court is immoral, George Monbiot, The Guardian (Feb 22, 2023, UK)
- A major trial of a 4-day week (on same pay) sees "vast majority" of organisations extending or making it permanent, The Daily Alternative (Feb 14, 2023, UK)
- Britain is addicted to the wrecking ball. It’s trashing our heritage and the planet, Phineas Harper, The Guardian (Feb 10, 2023, UK)
- Stop ‘wishcycling’ and get wise: how to recycle (almost) everything, The Guardian (Feb 07, 2023, UK)
- Here are some trailblazers doing radical, regenerative place-making work - in housing, supply chains, finance and energy, The Daily Alternative (Feb 01, 2023, UK)
- More than 100 writers sign letter in solidarity with jailed UK climate activists, The Guardian (Jan 06, 2023, UK)
- “Be fearless. You are just as entitled as anyone to have the life you want.” The Arts Emergency Manifesto should rouse more than just artists, The Daily Alternative (Jan 05, 2023, UK)
- If a community builds its “imagination infrastructure”, asks Cassie Robinson, what materials does it need? And what ambitions does it raise?, The Daily Alternative (Jan 02, 2023, UK)
- Extinction Rebellion announces move away from disruptive tactics, The Guardian (Jan 01, 2023, UK)
