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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)