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• Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds, theguardian.com (Dec 11, 2024, UK)
• A System Out of Step – New report on the 2024 General Election, electoral-reform.org.uk (Dec 10, 2024, UK)
• UK 'not ready' for extreme weather like Storm Darragh, BBC News (Dec 08, 2024, UK) — "There are risks to our food yields, there are risks to where we can build safe homes for people, and risks to our towns and cities which are built on coastlines. These things are very obvious and we should be acting now to tackle them.", Emma Pinchbeck, head of the Climate Change Committee
• Keeping up with the policies. FFCC’s Georgie Barber on why we need land use coherence, ffcc.co.uk (Dec 04, 2024, UK)
• Why being close to a cycle network can boost house prices, theconversation.com (Dec 03, 2024, UK)
• Peatlands urgently need to be restored for UK to meet emissions targets, theconversation.com (Dec 02, 2024, UK)
• Getting Britain to work without blaming ‘scroungers’ – can Starmer change the narrative?, theconversation.com (Nov 29, 2024, UK)
• The UK wants to guarantee work or training for all young people – first it needs good jobs, theconversation.com (Nov 28, 2024, UK)
• Three ways the UK can get people working again – without punishing them, theconversation.com (Nov 28, 2024, UK)
• Storm Bert offers stark reminder of UK’s underfunded flood defences, theguardian.com (Nov 26, 2024, UK)
• SPRING: From its ambition to create an "urban croft" (or food producer) in the heart of Leith, Earth In Common is becoming a powerful CAN, Daily Alternative (Nov 21, 2024, Edinburgh; Scotland; UK)
• Construction is the world’s biggest carbon emitter, yet Labour still refuses to tackle it, Simon Jenkins, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2024, UK; Earth)
• UK’s unhealthy food habits cost £268bn a year, far outstripping the budget for the whole NHS, theguardian.com (Nov 15, 2024, UK)
• Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful, theconversation.com (Nov 14, 2024, UK)
• 30 years of renewable energy: one company’s success story, positive.news (Oct 30, 2024, UK)
• Japan-style ‘tiny forests’ are taking root in British cities, theconversation.com (Oct 28, 2024, UK)
• Stop punishing doctors who take part in climate protests, regulator told, theguardian.com (Oct 27, 2024, UK) — Hundreds of health workers sign letter to General Medical Council calling for halt to suspensions as GP faces jail for activism
• Cosmolocal Health System Anyone?, Alternative Editorial (Oct 23, 2024, UK)
• We need a ‘Lucas Plan’ for current military spending on technology - meaning a transition of most of those skills and facilities to green and civilian ends, Daily Alternative (Oct 20, 2024, UK)
• Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2024, UK) — The supposedly green project – brainchild of the previous Tory government – will increase emissions, not reduce them
• How Covid generated the tools for greater climate resilience in communities, Daily Alternative (Oct 11, 2024, UK)
• There’s many that make a claim for the stabilising and liberating effect of basic income. Landworkers and farmers have one of the best cases, Daily Alternative (Oct 10, 2024, UK)
• Rewilder Derek Gow on turning his farm into an ark for lost species, positive.news (Oct 04, 2024, UK) — A heartfelt plea for a wilder, more inspiring Britain. "It does not have to be this way. We know and can accomplish so much"
• The UPF giants: “staggering” global emissions of the top 10 food and drink manufacturers higher than UK’s total carbon footprint, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Oct 01, 2024, UK) — Ultra processed foods aren't just damaging our health – they're decimating the environment too
• CPRE submits response to consultation on planning system, cpre.org.uk (Sep 25, 2024, UK) — Among CPRE's many recommendations in response to the wide scope of the consultation, CPRE calls for a more transparent method of assessing genuine housing need, a new definition of affordable so that house prices reflect average local incomes, and a greater focus on sustainable travel.
• Nimby name-calling will not solve Britain’s housing crisis, theguardian.com (Sep 22, 2024, UK)
• Testing the Miyawaki Method in Our Urban Greenspaces, naturalengland.blog.gov.uk (Sep 19, 2024, UK)
• More floods are coming to Britain, but you ought to know this: the system that should protect us is a scandal, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Sep 18, 2024, UK)
• One in four neighbourhoods across England breach multiple nature pollution thresholds, friendsoftheearth.uk (Sep 03, 2024, UK) — New research by Friends of the Earth shows 1 in 4 neighbourhoods classify as nature pollution hotspots. Pollution hotspots are areas where air, water, noise and light pollution levels all exceed safe thresholds for wildlife. Friends of the Earth is calling for the right to a healthy environment to be enshrined in a new Environmental Rights Act. The law would empower communities to hold regulators and public bodies to account to reduce the multiple layers of pollution affecting their areas to better protect wildlife and people.
• Read, swap, repeat: secondhand book recycling platform launches in the UK, positive.news (Sep 03, 2024, UK)
• The Guardian view on the future of public transport: time to invest and think big, Editorial, theguardian.com (Aug 25, 2024, UK)
• Jail term for climate protester, 77, is disproportionate, says Carla Denyer, theguardian.com (Aug 22, 2024, UK)
• Labour investment in cycling and walking will be unprecedented, says Louise Haigh, theguardian.com (Aug 20, 2024, UK)
• As the world gets hotter, could helping trees migrate northwards protect them?, theguardian.com (Aug 19, 2024, UK)
• Arts and crafts give greater life satisfaction than work, survey suggests, theguardian.com (Aug 16, 2024, UK)
• Responding Not Reacting, Alternative Editorial (Aug 10, 2024, UK)
• Pensioner body calls on Reeves to reverse cut to winter fuel allowance, theguardian.com (Aug 02, 2024, UK)
• Government states that Great British Energy will also work to scale up community energy projects – partnering with energy companies, local authorities and cooperatives to develop up to 8GW of small- and medium-scale projects, theguardian.com (Jul 25, 2024, UK)
• Demolishing buildings is bad for the planet – here’s an alternative, theconversation.com (Jul 23, 2024, UK)
• UK government faces claim over alleged failure to protect people in climate crisis, theguardian.com (Jul 23, 2024, UK)
• Fruit & veg deserts & the death knoll of the local greengrocer, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 23, 2024, UK) — Is there a way back?
• Airlines may have to disclose carbon impact of individuals’ flights under new UK policy, theguardian.com (Jul 23, 2024, UK)
• Cycling campaigners urge new governnment to make coherent and committed investment in cycling for transport, theguardian.com (Jul 21, 2024, UK)
• Celebrities add voices to outcry over severity of Just Stop Oil sentences, theguardian.com (Jul 19, 2024, UK; Earth)
• You may find Just Stop Oil annoying. You may dislike their tactics. But they do not belong in prison, Chris Packham and Dale Vince, theguardian.com (Jul 19, 2024, UK; Earth) — These protesters are shouting ‘fire’ while the world burns. A society that locks them up cannot be called democratic
• A record sentence for a Zoom call, arrests for those holding signs outside. This is a blight on British democracy, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Jul 19, 2024, UK; Earth)
• The new UK govt aims for "growth, growth, growth" to solve all problems. The planet will have something to say about that, suggests James Meadway, Daily Alternative (Jul 19, 2024, UK; Earth)
• Beach cleans aren’t just good for the sea – they can boost your mental health and encourage better behaviour, theconversation.com (Jul 19, 2024, UK)
• Regen, organic & agroecology: what’s the difference?, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 17, 2024, UK)
• Contempt, gagging and UN intervention: inside the UK’s wildest climate trial, theguardian.com (Jul 12, 2024, UK)
• Floods fuelled 19% drop in income from farming in England in 2023, theguardian.com (Jul 12, 2024, UK)
• Community Planning Alliance Writes to New Labour Ministers, communityplanningalliance.org (Jul 10, 2024, UK) — The Community Planning Alliance seeks greater participation for communities in planning, alongside greater environmental protections and the right developments & infrastructure in the right places. "On the subject of community participation, Labour leadership must understand that communities are not "blockers" as they do not have the power to prevent development... Instead, let’s see moves towards co-creation and engagement for positive outcomes... Sustainable development will only be achieved if communities are fully engaged and the Community Planning Alliance can provide insights, expertise and experience from the 600 campaigns registered on our map."
• Retrofitting homes and neighbourhoods helps us "embrace the wholesale reimagination of how we live together", says Civic Square's Immy Kaur, Daily Alternative (Jul 04, 2024, UK)
• Home-grown: A roadmap to resilient fruit and vegetable production in England. A collaboration, 360 report published by The Soil Association, Sustain and The Wildlife Trusts, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 03, 2024, UK) — the report outlines seven steps to restore resilience to the horticulture sector
• Climate protest accused defies judge to give hours-long speech in court, theguardian.com (Jul 02, 2024, UK)
• Food Conversation inviting local communities to host their own event and join unique UK-wide conversation about food, ffcc.co.uk (Jun 19, 2024, UK) — Hundreds of people have taken part in The Food Conversation over the past year with more conversations to come in London, Cornwall, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
• Women’s football holds immense potential as a lever for climate action, Amy James-Turner, theguardian.com (Jun 11, 2024, UK)
• Coalition of more than 80 nature conservation groups launch legal bid over wildlife loss, BBC News (Jun 07, 2024, UK)
• How to supercharge climate action? Get schools involved, positive.news (Jun 05, 2024, UK)
• Be a better tourist! 28 ways to have a fantastic holiday – without infuriating the locals, theguardian.com (May 28, 2024, UK)
• Community action and hedgerow success with Hedgerow Heroes phase 3, cpre.org.uk (May 23, 2024, UK)
• The UK’s coastal ‘ghost enclaves’ are the result of government failure on low-use homes, theconversation.com (May 23, 2024, UK)
• Meeting housing needs within planetary boundaries requires opening the black box of housing “demand”, By Stefan Horn, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, medium.com (May 21, 2024, UK) — "If the goal of housing policy is to meet housing needs within planetary boundaries, then we have to open the black box of housing “demand” and prioritise meeting housing needs over expanding housing independent from use."
• The Guardian view on peaceful protests: the high court has preserved a fundamental right, Editorial, theguardian.com (May 21, 2024, UK)
• It's time to listen closely to farmers, Dr Charlie Taverner: real food security starts with rebuilding confidence, ffcc.co.uk (May 13, 2024, UK)
• Most crime has fallen by 90% in 30 years – so why does the public think it’s increased?, theconversation.com (May 13, 2024, UK)
• How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money, theguardian.com (May 06, 2024, UK)
• Government defeated in High Court over climate plans, BBC News (May 03, 2024, UK)
• Holding a placard outside court isn’t illegal, judge rules – is that the best British democracy has to offer?, theconversation.com (May 02, 2024, UK)
• Principles for Community-Centred Climate Adaptation, Bridie Kennerley, bioregion.org.uk (Apr 23, 2024, Devon; UK)
• Judge throws out case against UK climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights, theguardian.com (Apr 22, 2024, UK)
• Ruling against Just Stop Oil doctor alarms British Medical Association, BBC News (Apr 22, 2024, UK)
• A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it. John Harris, theguardian.com (Apr 21, 2024, UK)
• People want a shift in funding from driving to improving walking, cycling, and public transport, sustrans.org.uk (Mar 27, 2024, UK) — 58% support more cycle paths protected from traffic even if this removes space for cars
• Is this the blueprint for a food bank that’s more human?, positive.news (Mar 26, 2024, UK)
• Climate protesters in England and Wales lose criminal damage defence, theguardian.com (Mar 18, 2024, UK)
• Why we need to change direction on building homes, sustrans.org.uk (Mar 10, 2024, Wiltshire; South West England; South East England; UK) — "Our report shows how better design and investment decisions – based on ‘gentle density’ and sustainable transport – can deliver the same number of homes on just 40% of the land."
• ‘No drilling! No drilling!’: climate choir sings truth to power in Palace of Westminster, theguardian.com (Mar 07, 2024, UK)
• ‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming, theguardian.com (Feb 25, 2024, West Sussex; South East England; UK)
• ‘Assault on rights of juries’: activist decries Tory challenge to legal defence for protesters, theguardian.com (Feb 19, 2024, UK)
• Developers in England will be forced to create habitats for wildlife – here’s how it works, theconversation.com (Feb 15, 2024, UK)
• Five reasons to heat your home using infrared fabric, theconversation.com (Feb 14, 2024, UK)
• A final line of defence: combatting the slow, agonising death of the River Wye, riveractionuk.com (Feb 09, 2024, UK)
• ‘A powerful message through song’: the UK’s Climate Choir Movement is growing, theguardian.com (Feb 07, 2024, UK)
• Government in court over chicken poo in River Wye, BBC News (Feb 07, 2024, UK)
• Fuel poverty: as government support dries up, communities are taking action, theconversation.com (Feb 06, 2024, UK)
• Pesticides urgently need reform – the UK’s overdue action plan must make these drastic changes, theconversation.com (Feb 05, 2024, UK)
• "Tech for Today - and for Tomorrow" makes a resounding case that community tech can drive change in Britain, Daily Alternative (Jan 31, 2024, UK)
• A single person on universal credit now receives 20% less than what it costs just to eat and keep warm, theconversation.com (Jan 29, 2024, UK)
• ‘We can’t engineer our way out of this’: how to protect flood-hit Severn Valley, theguardian.com (Jan 27, 2024, UK)
• Geldof and Colman urge Home Office to reconsider climate activist’s deportation, theguardian.com (Jan 26, 2024, UK)
• Dissent is vital to protect democracy, Guardian Editorial, theguardian.com (Jan 23, 2024, UK)
• UN expert condemns UK crackdown on environmental protest, theguardian.com (Jan 23, 2024, UK)
• Chris Packham on why he’s angry, yet hopeful, positive.news (Jan 22, 2024, UK)
• Brexit divergence from EU destroying UK’s vital environmental protections, theguardian.com (Jan 19, 2024, UK)
• Nature in England at risk due to government failures, says environment watchdog, theguardian.com (Jan 18, 2024, UK)
• The Tories are right, we should stop the boats. Just not the ones they’re talking about, Aditya Chakrabortty, theguardian.com (Jan 18, 2024, UK)
• Labour mulls plan to boost local buyouts of community sites in England, theguardian.com (Jan 09, 2024, UK)
• Analysis: Record opposition to climate action by UK’s right-leaning newspapers in 2023, carbonbrief.org (Jan 09, 2024, UK)