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Charity preparing to take legal action against a government decision to permit a housing development in part of the Kent countryside, BBC News (Dec 20, 2024, Tunbridge Wells; Kent; UK)- Thanet mulls £39m plans to house homeless, BBC News (Dec 16, 2024, Thanet; UK)
- Recalling two years of radical experiment in participatory democracy, the Stroud Area Assembly wishes you a “Radical Restmas”, Daily Alternative (Dec 15, 2024, Stroud; UK)
- This is what democracy looks like, parentsforfuturestroud.wordpress.com/ (Dec 11, 2024, Stroud; UK)
- Hand-selected seeds are set to bring riot of colour and life to new road in Cornwall, positive.news (Dec 11, 2024, Cornwall; UK)
- "Laying the foundations for the hopeful, creative, just transition that we know is in our hearts". Civic Square mapping eco-possibilities for the West Midlands, Daily Alternative (Dec 03, 2024, Birmingham; West Midlands; UK)
- ‘A special place’: Guardian readers’ generosity helps to save rewilded farm, theguardian.com (Nov 14, 2024, Bedfordshire;East of England; UK)
- Ecocide Bill lodged in Scottish Parliament, stopecocide.earth (Nov 12, 2024, Scotland; UK)
- "Our Future" is Grimsby celebrating its native resources, coming together as a community ready for the century's challenges, Daily Alternative (Nov 07, 2024, Yorks; UK)
- Get on my land! The farmers opening up their patches for nature connection, positive.news (Nov 12, 2024, Bucks; Oxfordshire; UK)
- “We live in a mere shadow of the world we could have”. Dil Green—building commons by means of housing and local trading, in Stroud and Liverpool—has a pathway, Daily Alternative (Nov 03, 2024, Stroud; Liverpool; UK)
- The grassroots-based Islington Climate Centre is running People’s Assemblies on practical challenges brought by climate crisis - heatwaves and flooding, Daily Alternative (Oct 31, 2024, Islington; London; UK)
- Wildlife Trusts buy Rothbury estate in largest land sale in England in 30 years, theguardian.com (Oct 29, 2024, North East England; UK)
- ‘No gear, all the ideas’: the farming collective offering up land to sustainable businesses, positive.news (Oct 28, 2024, Fife; Shropshire; Hants; UK)
- A new flow: pioneering UK river restoration declared a success, positive.news (Oct 21, 2024, Somerset; South West England; UK)
- Sale of Essex acid grassland for homes would set ‘catastrophic precedent’, theguardian.com (Oct 19, 2024, Essex; South East England; UK) — Idea that every habitat is replaceable is a misuse of biodiversity net gain, say ecological experts
- Who owns Norfolk? It's an extraordinary story of mostly very, very old inherited wealth. But the digital mapping would benefit any area, Daily Alternative (Oct 18, 2024, Norfolk; East of England; UK)
- All hail the greengrocer buses tackling the UK’s food deserts, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Oct 09, 2024, Liverpool; London; North East England; UK)
- Save West Malling Farmers Market, Petition set up by local Councillors, change.org (Oct 03, 2024, Malling) — calling on Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council to lift the four hour parking restriction for traders, so that they can continue to provide a Farmers Market on the fourth Sunday of each month in West Malling
- Legal challenge to Rosebank oil field given go-ahead, BBC News (Sep 25, 2024, Shetland; Scotland; UK)
- SPRING: Community Wealth-Building looks like it’s flourishing in Scotland - at all levels of power, local and national, Daily Alternative (Sep 23, 2024, Scotland; UK)
- Flour to the people: the Scottish collective working to democratise better bread, positive.news (Sep 23, 2024, Fife; Scotland; UK)
- Our 24-hour climate comic explores what a sustainable future could look like, theconversation.com (Sep 20, 2024, Brighton; South East England; UK)
- How restoring rivers' natural curves can prevent flooding, BBC Future (Sep 19, 2024, Cumbria; West Sussex; UK)
- London’s new urban greening structure is a ‘garden for insects and people’, positive.news (Sep 17, 2024, London; UK)
- Whitehaven coal mine plan quashed by High Court, BBC News (Sep 13, 2024, Cumbria; North West England; UK)
- 'Climate change goal will be met by 2030' says Telford and Wrekin Council concerning its target for its operations to become carbon neutral by 2030, BBC News (Sep 13, 2024, Shropshire; West Midlands; UK)
- The neighbourhood of East Malling, West Malling & Trottiscliffe, in the constituency of Maidstone and Malling, is one of the one in four neighbourhoods across England that breach multiple nature pollution thresholds, friendsoftheearth.uk (Sep 03, 2024, Malling; Kent; South East England) — 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.
- Profits from community windfarm to fund a million native trees in Hebrides, theguardian.com (Aug 31, 2024, Western Isles; Scotland; UK)
- “‘Tell the truth’ didn’t just mean the facts of climate breakdown, it meant the heartbreaking truth of our own potential." Gully Bujak on Cooperation Hull, Daily Alternative (Aug 30, 2024, Hull; Yorks; UK)
- SPRING: “We radically re-imagine the piano in today’s throw away culture”. Edinburgh’s Pianodrome is the essence of a circular economy, Daily Alternative (Aug 28, 2024, Edinburgh; Scotland; UK)
- Solving the housing crisis via the commons, By Dil Green, resilience.org (Aug 23, 2024, Stroud; UK)
- Glastonbury gets 'climate action plan', BBC News (Aug 23, 2024, Somerset; South West England; UK)
- ‘Empowering and healing, people’s assemblies are the future of democracy’, positive.news (Aug 21, 2024, Hull; Yorks; UK)
- Announcing a Citizens' Forum on Housing!, x.com/CivicInitNI (Aug 16, 2024, Northern Ireland; UK)
- A community food supply, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Aug 14, 2024, Glasgow; Scotland; Barking and Dagenham; London; UK) — Urban farms are bypassing supermarkets to create their own local food systems and connect communities. Robbie Armstrong reports
- ‘When it’s sunny, we get the barbecue out’: urban gardeners transform foul alleys into verdant havens, theguardian.com (Aug 12, 2024, Manchester; North West England; UK)
- ‘My Southport shop was looted by rioters, then saved by strangers’, BBC News (Aug 11, 2024, North West England; UK)
- Liverpool library torched by far-right rioters raises repair funds, theguardian.com (Aug 06, 2024, Liverpool; North West England; UK)
- ‘Building something better’: the UK residents retrofitting their homes amid the climate crisis, theguardian.com (Aug 03, 2024, Birmingham; West Midlands; UK) — From weekly skills-sharing to rewilding streets, communities are working to improve the planet while bolstering the health of people
- Backpack-wearing dogs enlisted to rewild urban nature reserve in Lewes, theguardian.com (Jul 26, 2024, East Sussex; South East England; UK)
- Expanding London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) has improved air quality and reduced harmful emissions from cars and vans says City Hall, BBC News (Jul 25, 2024, London; UK)
- Craft cider is surprisingly good for the environment, theconversation.com (Jul 25, 2024, Cornwall; UK)
- Value in the meantime: the social enterprise transforming London’s empty buildings, positive.news (Jul 23, 2024, London; UK)
- House builders 'failing to deliver on nature pledges', BBC News (Jul 21, 2024, East Midlands; UK)
- Scottish oil-town plan for green jobs sparks climate campers’ anger over local park, climatechangenews.com (Jul 19, 2024, Aberdeen; Scotland; UK)
- North Northamptonshire Council given £3.8m to reduce carbon footprint of three key facilities, BBC News (Jul 13, 2024, East Midlands; UK)
- Council in Surrey launching an action fund for projects which help tackle the impact of climate change, BBC News (Jul 13, 2024, Surrey; South East England; UK) — Elmbridge Borough Council say the fund is for projects that make a "tangible difference" to education around carbon emissions, biodiversity enhancement, and energy, water, and waste reduction
- Wolds oil drilling plans quashed in landmark ruling, BBC News (Jul 11, 2024, East Midlands; UK)
- Cumbria coalmine was unlawfully approved, government says, theguardian.com (Jul 11, 2024, Cumbria; North West England; UK)
- As effluent from sewage works and agricultural pollution flow freely into rivers, researchers and local citizens are urgently seeking to clean up the UK's waterways. New wildlife-rich wetlands could be an answer, bbc.co.uk (Jul 05, 2024, Norfolk; East of England; UK)
- In Wales, they’re considering a law of “political deception”. Meaning when a politician is deemed to deliberately lie, it’s a criminal offence, Daily Alternative (Jul 02, 2024, Wales; UK)
- ‘Give nature space and it will come back’: rewilding returns endangered species to UK’s south coast, theguardian.com (Jun 27, 2024, East Sussex; West Sussex; South East England; UK)
- Horse Hill: Historic win as Supreme Court upholds landmark climate case, Sarah Finch, wealdactiongroup.org.uk (Jun 20, 2024, Surrey; South East England; UK) — Surrey County Council acted unlawfully by giving planning permission for oil production at Horse Hill in the Surrey countryside without considering the climate impacts of when the oil is inevitably burned, the Supreme Court has ruled today.
- Kelp help? How Scotland’s seaweed growers are aiming to revolutionise what we buy, theguardian.com (Jun 13, 2024, Highland; Scotland; UK)
- What are the embryonic initiatives that quickly and radically transform society? Maybe ours will be gardens, suggests Greg Frey, Daily Alternative (Jun 06, 2024, Walthamstow; London; UK)
- Making an exhibition of yourself: the gallery where anyone can add to the walls, positive.news (Jun 04, 2024, Edinburgh; Scotland; UK)
- Edinburgh Council bans advertising for fossil fuel companies, airlines, airports, fossil-powered cars, SUVs, cruise ships and arms manufacturers on council-owned advertising spaces, badverts.org (May 29, 2024, Edinburgh; Scotland; UK) — across England, one-third of local authorities now have some form of restrictions on harmful advertising
- ‘The fear has properly set in’: how it feels to watch my home town disappear into the sea, theguardian.com (May 21, 2024, Aberdeenshire; Scotland; UK)
- ‘It’s unbelievable the difference a path has made’: how volunteers are building a cycle network a yard at a time, theguardian.com (May 16, 2024, Somerset; South West England; UK)
- Stroud Housing Commons: latest developments, lowimpact.org (May 08, 2024, Stroud; UK)
- Public backs move to green home heating but more government support is needed, research shows, theconversation.com (May 02, 2024, Liverpool; North West England; UK) — "...in Liverpool, strong local identity and a feeling of solidarity led most participants to prefer a locally-owned system to private provision."
- ‘This May Day is a Celebration of Work and Innovation’, Dave Proudlove, thestokemodel.com (May 01, 2024, Stoke; West Midlands; UK)
- Five ways community is at the heart of Brighton Festival, positive.news (Apr 24, 2024, Brighton; South East England; UK)
- Thames21 welcomes Government’s plan to ban plastic in wet wipes, thames21.org.uk (Apr 22, 2024, London; UK)
- Becoming Independent, Alternative Editorial (Apr 21, 2024, Scotland; UK)
- Library of Things helping Charlton Kings residents save money, BBC News (Apr 11, 2024, Gloucestershire; South West England; UK)
- Five years of a car-free Thames crossing, wearepossible.org (Apr 10, 2024, Hammersmith; London; UK)
- Transition Tooting is going to make their locality into a "Town Anywhere" - capable of imagining, and realising, positive futures, Daily Alternative (Apr 02, 2024, Wandsworth; Londong; UK)
- ‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England, theguardian.com (Mar 29, 2024, Wiltshire; South West England; UK)
- In Scotland, the circular economy is more than an occasion for eco-virtue. It’s ingenious and fun too, Daily Alternative (Mar 21, 2024, Scotland; UK)
- A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands, theguardian.com (Mar 20, 2024, Dumfries and Galloway; Scotland; UK)
- New Sheffield ad ban shows how councils can act on harmful advertising, adfreecities.org.uk (Mar 19, 2024, Sheffield; Yorks; UK)
- Rewilding Nation declaration call for Scotland as Charter launched, scotlandbigpicture.com (Mar 15, 2024, Scotland; UK) — More than 2% of Scotland’s land now rewilding according to new figures
- Digitally mapping fertile spaces, teaching deep permaculture, all becoming co-stewards: Plymouth’s special social power at work, Daily Alternative (Mar 13, 2024, Plymouth; South West England; UK)
- Dorset Wildlife Trust partners with Natural England to acquire Lyscombe Farm, dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/news (Mar 08, 2024, Dorset; South West England)
- ‘We’re totally pay as you can’: the UK restaurant prioritising people and planet, theguardian.com (Mar 06, 2024, Gloucestershire; South West England; UK)
- All hands to the pumps: the colourful rise of community-owned pubs, positive.news (Mar 05, 2024, Highland; Greenwich; London; Scotland; UK)
- Pay as you feel café celebrates busy start as community hub, timeslocalnews.co.uk (Feb 28, 2024, Tunbridge Wells)
- Oxfordshire housing development ‘should be blocked due to failing sewage system’, theguardian.com (Feb 27, 2024, Oxfordshire; South East England; UK)
- The Scottish Gaelic concept of Dúthchas urges that people and nature are deeply entangled. Let it guide the path to land reform, Daily Alternative (Feb 25, 2024, Highland; Dumfries and Galloway; Scotland; UK)
- From sketch to sea: diving into Wales’ underwater farming revolution, positive.news (Feb 19, 2024, Wales; UK)
- ‘Like the flip of a switch, it’s gone’: has the ecosystem of the UK’s largest lake collapsed?, theguardian.com (Feb 19, 2024, Northern Ireland; UK)
- “I am a window of opportunity”: Plymouth’s innovative social enterprise sector comes up with Vacancy Atlas, redefining the high street, Daily Alternative (Feb 08, 2024, Plymouth; South West England; UK)
- E-bikes are freewheeling through rain and over hills, with huge promise for sustainable transport in rural tourist areas, theconversation.com (Feb 06, 2024, Cumbria; North West England; UK)
- The Real Front Line, Alternative Editorial (Feb 04, 2024, Edinburgh; Scotland; UK)
- Green Football Weekend: Newark & Sherwood United - the vegan non-league club doing things differently, bbc.co.uk (Feb 03, 2024, East Midlands; UK)
- Renewables produce more than 100% of Scotland's electricity demand for first time, news.stv.tv (Jan 26, 2024, Scotland; UK)
- The community buyout projects leading Scotland’s self-help revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 01, 2024, Edinburgh; Scotland; UK)
