Environment
15 May 2012
Youth-led sustainability charity the Otesha Project UK will embark upon its most challenging cycle tour yet this summer
06 May 2012
Europe’s largest local food network is to receive almost half a million pounds of funding from the Scottish government to encourage more people to choose local and sustainably sourced food
Global / Community, Environment
04 May 2012
A global day of action will see people ‘connecting the dots’ between extreme weather and climate change
UK / Arts, Culture, Sustainable Development
14 Apr 2012
Sunrise festival hopes to inspire a shift in consciousness to enable a more sustainable world to be created
05 Apr 2012
New research has found that the public want environmental groups and scientists to have more influence on ocean management and that people value the oceans for their role in regulating the climate and providing food and beauty
UK / Conservation, Sustainable Development
05 Apr 2012
Dedicated work by local people and government bodies has rehabilitated lifeless rivers in South Wales, restoring former industrial areas to places of beauty and recreation
05 Apr 2012
While the heads of the agricultural industry and government officials met to discuss policy at the Oxford Farming Conference earlier this year, an alternative event took place
03 Apr 2012
Hetti Dysch introduces the practice of wilderness therapy, which is growing throughout the UK
30 Mar 2012
A record number of countries will switch off the lights at important landmarks and take part in Earth Hour this year
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
Deep in the heart of favela (shanty town) communities in the metropolis of Sao Paulo, Brazil, seeds of transformation are beginning to sprout
Quakers commit to sustainability
27 Mar 2012
At a gathering of more than 1,500 members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the UK, an official commitment was made to become a low-carbon, sustainable community
27 Mar 2012
A new Welsh charity is bringing the nation together to help conserve an area of rainforest the size of Wales – two million hectares or 7,722 sq miles
23 Mar 2012
This weekend the charity Surfers against Sewage (SAS) will lead the country’s biggest ever beach clean up
UK / New Economics, Sustainable Development
15 Mar 2012
At a UN conference in June 2012, the UK will call for a greener global economy and a new way to measure economic progress that takes environmental factors into account
15 Mar 2012
The conservation charity Trees for Life will reach a major milestone in restoring the Caledonian Forest in the highlands of Scotland, when on 20 May it plants its millionth tree
Free-range eggs to outsell caged for the first time
15 Mar 2012
Free-range eggs are predicted to outsell eggs from caged hens for the first time this year, according to industry estimates
