Community
15 May 2012
Youth-led sustainability charity the Otesha Project UK will embark upon its most challenging cycle tour yet this summer
Event calls for education revolution
06 May 2012
An international conference aiming to promote alternative education will take place in Portland on 1-5 August 2012
Global / Community, Environment
04 May 2012
A global day of action will see people ‘connecting the dots’ between extreme weather and climate change
04 May 2012
Up to 1,500 young people from across the UK are being given the opportunity to work alongside film industry professionals to help create feature-length films this summer
26 Apr 2012
Cape Town resident Rachel Briant takes a look at how non-governmental organisations are helping improve lives in her home city
26 Apr 2012
Erica Crompton visits a unique organic farm and retreat in Scotland to discover how young volunteers are finding their way into employment
13 Apr 2012
A conference taking place in London in May will explore how primary schools can be transformed into peaceful communities that not only provide effective environments for learning, but help children develop into well-rounded human beings
28 Mar 2012
Embercombe, a social enterprise near Exeter, runs leadership and development courses for adults, young people and businesses, in the context of creating a truly sustainable world. Jo Clark, head of land-based learning, explains the value of their approach
UK / Agriculture, Community, Food
27 Mar 2012
A new report reveals the scale and diverse nature of community food growing projects in the UK that are generating incomes while creating supplies of healthy local food
27 Mar 2012
Innovative farmers are working with local people to create a sustainable system of agriculture that provides fresh, local food while providing a huge range of benefits to local people, economies and the environment, research has found
27 Mar 2012
A competition urging schoolchildren to create arts and crafts from scrap materials has launched across the UK
23 Mar 2012
This weekend the charity Surfers against Sewage (SAS) will lead the country’s biggest ever beach clean up
15 Mar 2012
As a new feature film showcases one of the most innovative and rapidly expanding social movements of our time, Caspar Walsh catches up with the man who started it all: Rob Hopkins
15 Mar 2012
The annual Big Lunch is set for Sunday 3 June this year, the same weekend as The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations
UK / Community, Renewable Energy
05 Mar 2012
Leading UK civil society organisations have united to promote a dramatic increase in community-owned renewable energy
Global / Community, Renewable Energy
05 Mar 2012
As a coalition of UK charities calls for an increased focus on community-owned renewables, Martin Wright reflects on the potential of local energy ownership
05 Mar 2012
Through offering an increasing range of services and building innovative partnerships, community centres are finding their way back into the heart of all things local
05 Mar 2012
Campaign group Avaaz is helping raise the voice of millions of people through its online activism
20 Jan 2012
A campaign to reduce the urban speed limit to 20mph and make the UK a safer, cleaner and greener place is rapidly growing