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• This city had a flooding problem. So it turned to an animal that had been extinct there for 400 years, edition.cnn.com (Jun 18, 2026, Ealing; UK)
• Rights of Nature movement grows, with the Wye and Ouse subject to new protection charters, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jun 18, 2026, West Midlands; Wales; East Sussex; Maidstone; UK) — Nature sits at the heart of several new sets of rights and charters; it’s even headlining a festival this summer. Is the way that we view and value Nature within our political and cultural frameworks at a turning point? asks Hannah Marsh
• ‘I don’t like being stuck in an office’: the young people helping plant a ring of trees around London, theguardian.com (Jun 17, 2026, London; Enfield; Barnet; UK) — London Tree Ring project aims to create corridors of plant and animal life around the city to strengthen its biodiversity
• At this grassroots festival, nature is the headline act, positive.news (Jun 09, 2026, Hants; UK) — A UK festival is swapping big-name acts for beach cleans, wildlife walks and community-led events that ‘nourish the soul’
• Village solar system model shows planets and stars, BBC News (Jun 07, 2026, Sevenoaks; UK)
• White storks: why introducing non‑native species in rewilding projects can be a good idea, theconversation.com (Jun 05, 2026, West Sussex; South East England; South West England; UK)
• The schools giving children a say in how they are run, positive.new (Jun 03, 2026, Medway; UK) — As trust in democracy declines, a project putting pupils’ voices at the heart of school life is proving its worth
• 'England's first cycle street' opens to the public, BBC News (May 29, 2026, Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; UK)
• Record-breaking heat and dry spring leave parts of England without water, reuters.com (May 29, 2026, Canterbury; South East England; UK)
• The English restaurant turning hospitality on its head, positive.news (May 27, 2026, Stroud; Gloucestershire; UK) — At a pay-as-you-can restaurant in Stroud, radical hospitality and good food are bringing strangers together
• Britain’s green transition should belong to everyone. Why is Labour so intent on stopping us having our say? George Monbiot, theguardian.com (May 27, 2026, Norfolk; UK)
• Green jobs contributing £10.2bn to Scotland's economy, says CBI report, BBC News (May 26, 2026, Perth and Kinross; Scotland; UK)
• The English community that brought its river back from the brink: ‘If we can get it right here, we can do it everywhere’, theguardian.com (May 20, 2026, West Midlands; East Midlands; UK)
• ‘A share in the delight’: the people investing in the UK’s first community-owned solar battery, theguardian.com (May 08, 2026, Oxfordshire; UK) — Oxfordshire’s Ray Valley Solar already generates clean energy for 7,000 homes, and is now crowdfunding storage to marry daylight with evening demand
• Community Covenants: Redefining local power in Market Drayton, right-here.org (May 01, 2026, Shropshire; UK) — (date not found)
• Maidstone Borough Council has become the first council in the UK to formally adopt a Rights of Nature framework, news.maidstone.gov.uk (Apr 30, 2026, Maidstone; UK)
• From a Surrey oil well to the supreme court: how an activist changed UK climate law, theguardian.com (Apr 20, 2026, Surrey; UK)
• More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project, theguardian.co (Apr 17, 2026, Orkney; UK)
• Rewilding project aims to restore peatland near Loch Ness, BBC News (Apr 15, 2026, Highland; Scotland; UK)
• UK’s first community-owned battery site launches share offer, thenews.coop (Apr 13, 2026, Oxfordshire; UK)
• How volunteers are saving the River Wye with citizen science, cpre.org.uk (Mar 30, 2026, West Midlands; Wales; UK)
• Amid energy market turmoil, the people taking power into their own hands, positive.news (Mar 19, 2026, Hackney; UK)
• Back to the Song: Cultural Repair in a Time of Ecological Crisis [Mairi McFadyean/Hopeful Futures], Daily Alternative (Mar 18, 2026, Scotland; UK)
• 'Not enough water supply' for planned housing, BBC News (Mar 12, 2026, Malling; Tonbridge; UK) — There is "insufficient" water supply for the number of houses planned in a Kent borough, South East Water has claimed.
• The Public Plate: a new model for responsible restaurants that bring people together, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Mar 12, 2026, Bristol; UK)
• Plaid Cymru plans to share wind farm profits with local people – here’s how that idea has been tried elsewhere, theconversation.com (Mar 06, 2026, Wales; Nepal; UK)
• Wildlife visitor centre reopens after £2.1m project, BBC News (Mar 02, 2026, Sevenoaks; UK)
• As abandoned mineshafts provide heating and hot water for Scottish villages, one energy era births another, Daily Alternative (Feb 27, 2026, Stirling; UK)
• Heritage railway launches hydrogen-powered train, BBC News (Feb 27, 2026, West Midlands; UK)
• ‘Magic beneath the surface’: pioneering geothermal plant launched in Cornwall, theguardian.com (Feb 26, 2026, Cornwall; UK)
• Who Owns Scotland 2025, andywightman.scot (Mar 23, 2026, Scotland; UK) — 83% of rural land is possessed by private entities - and a tiny fraction by communities and non-profits
• How a Welsh village saved its forest … and its future, theguardian.com (Feb 22, 2026, Wales; UK)
• Community Wealth Building and the Future of Scotland’s Economy, By Neil McInroy, bellacaledonia.org.uk (Feb 21, 2026, Scotland; UK)
• Hedgerows the 'unsung heroes of the countryside', BBC News (Feb 16, 2026, Malling; Kent; UK) — A group of Kent volunteers is aiming to provide vital habitat for wildlife by planting about 3,800 yards (3,500m) of hedgerows in the countryside this year.
• “How do you build support for energy transition, through a scheme that structurally excludes the communities carrying the biggest burden?” [Voar], thealternative.org.uk (Feb 15, 2026, Shetland; Scotland; UK)
• 'Serious climate breakdown' warning over filthy rivers and flooding, BBC News (Feb 15, 2026, Wales; UK)
• Can wild swimming unite communities against single-use plastics?, positive.news (Feb 14, 2026, Brighton; UK)
• Addiction services are failing minority or marginalised communities in Bolton: a new charity aims to fill the gap, right-here.org (Feb 13, 2026, Bolton; Manchester; UK) — Date of article not found.
• East London is at high risk of extreme flooding – here’s how to limit the damage, theconversation.com (Feb 11, 2026, London; Hackney; Newham; Tower Hamlets; UK)
• WL Meets: Lucy Antal, on a mission to bring fresh food to the UK’s “food deserts”, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Feb 09, 2026, Liverpool; UK)
• ‘A beaver blind date’: animals given freedom to repopulate Cornish rivers, theguardian.com (Feb 09, 2026, Cornwall; UK)
• ‘To live a normal life again, it’s a dream come true’: UK’s first climate evacuees can cast off their homes and trauma, theguardian.com (Feb 09, 2026, Wales; Kent; UK)
• Businesses face extinction unless they protect nature, major report warns, BBC News (Feb 09, 2026, Somerset; UK; Earth)
• How a London energy co-op is trying to bring power to the people, thenews.coop (Feb 06, 2026, Greenwich; Lewisham; Bromley; London; UK) — We speak to Giovanna Speciale, CEO of South East London Community Energy, about its work towards an inclusive transition
• A New Generation of Community Wind-Wealth, scottishleftreview.scot (Feb 06, 2026, Scotland; UK) — The Danish model demonstrates how Scotland’s communities could co-own wind farms, writes Calum MacDonald.
• How communities are stepping up to revive our tired towns and cities, positive.news (Feb 05, 2026, Bristol; Lewisham; Essex; UK)
• Salt Cross: Carbon neutral village plans approved by government, BBC News (Feb 04, 2026, Oxfordshire; UK)
• Stop Climate Chaos Scotland reports on community ownership of renewables, and how data-centres might knock us off our climate targets, Daily Alternative (Feb 01, 2026, Argyll and Bute; UK)
• Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland as MSPs back law, theguardian.com (Jan 28, 2026, Scotland; UK)
• Love, fear, anger and hope: how emotions influence climate action, theconversation.com (Jan 23, 2026, Nottingham; UK)
• Behind the scenes as GPs face 'tidal wave of demand', BBC News (Jan 22, 2026, Kent; UK)
• What happens when the taps run dry? England is about to find out, Aditya Chakrabortty, theguardian.com (Jan 22, 2026, Tunbridge Wells; London; East of England; South East England; UK)
• Judi Dench backs campaign to protect London’s green spaces from developers, theguardian.com (Jan 21, 2026, London; UK)
• Citizens’ Assembly to invest £100,000 in West’s culture, westofengland-ca.gov.uk (Jan 16, 2026, South West England; UK)
• How a ‘dysfunctional’ English farm became a biodiversity hotspot, positive.news (Jan 16, 2026, West Sussex; UK) — Two-decade ecological review of the Knepp rewilding estate in Sussex, finds 900% increase in breeding birds.
• ‘Fear of the next deluge’: flood-scarred Britons join forces to demand help, theguardian.com (Jan 12, 2026, Kent; Oxfordshire; Shropshire; UK)
• Library building sell-off is 'lazy option' - MP, BBC News (Jan 12, 2026, Folkestone; UK)
• Scotland Writes Community Wealth Building Into Law—A World First, connectioning.substack.com (Jan 07, 2026, Scotland; UK) — World's first legislation mandating democratic economics at scale—and what it means for the movement, Jessica Friday
• Council offering free use of leisure centre hall, BBC News (Jan 04, 2026, Maidstone; UK)