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• The Guardian view on the planning bill: new towns must be for people who need them, Editorial, theguardian.com (Mar 11, 2025, UK)
• Six climate change activists sentences reduced by appeal court, BBC News (Mar 07, 2025, UK)
• The UK’s food system is broken. A green new deal for agriculture could be revolutionary, theconversation.com (Feb 28, 2025, UK)
• Beaver releases into wild to be allowed in England for first time in centuries, theguardian.com (Feb 28, 2025, UK)
• CCC: Reducing emissions 87% by 2040 would help ‘cut household costs by £1,400’, carbonbrief.org (Feb 26, 2025, UK) — Themes that underpin CCC recommendations include “Implementing an engagement strategy”: stressing the importance of the government providing ”clear information to households and businesses”, including on the benefits of low-carbon choices, and “Supporting households to install low-carbon heating”: Government support is specifically needed to tackle the high up-front costs of heat-pump installations and other barriers such as “misconceptions”
• How might we shift Council Culture so that local governments work with citizens to make places better? New Citizen Project, linkedin.com (Feb 26, 2025)
• The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers, theconversation.com (Feb 26, 2025, UK)
• Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says, theguardian.com (Feb 24, 2025, UK)
• Flour power: the campaign to get real bread to more people, positive.news (Feb 21, 2025, UK)
• Urgent action needed to ensure UK food security, report warns, theguardian.com (Feb 06, 2025, UK) — The report highlights the potential of copying grassroots initiatives, which are often working ahead of central government to ensure communities are resilient to shocks to food supplies.
• Empowering local people to bring community spaces back into community ownership, consult.defra.gov.uk, (consultation document, p.26) (Jan 31, 2025, UK) — The UK government says that through the English Devolution Bill, it will introduce a strong new ‘right to buy’ for valued community assets, such as empty shops, pubs and community spaces. "Community Right to Buy will help local people acquire valued community spaces if they come up for sale, keeping these assets in the hands of the community."
• Hundreds protest in London as jailed climate activists’ appeals are heard, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2025, UK)
• Rosebank oilfield go-ahead decision ruled unlawful by Edinburgh court, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2025, UK)
• Sixteen jailed UK climate activists to appeal against ‘unduly harsh’ sentences, theguardian.com (Jan 29, 2025, UK)
• Five years in prison for nonviolent protest: it’s plain wrong, and Keir Starmer knows it, Caroline Lucas, theguardian.com (Jan 29, 2025, UK)
• Delivering better outcomes with a Multifunctional Land Use Framework, Sue Pritchard, ffcc.co.uk (Jan 28, 2025, UK) — "Through our long-term trials we have seen how keen people are to engage in and work through the complex and messy problems. We’ve seen... communities working with planners to design places with attractive, affordable, sustainable homes where people want to live and work."
• Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Jan 26, 2025, UK) — since 2016, more homes have been bought as “additional dwellings” (second homes, holiday homes, Airbnbs, buy to lets, and so on) than by first-time buyers
• The UK’s international commitments on climate and nature could soon become law – and better protect our environment, theconversation.com (Jan 22, 2025, UK) — Climate and Nature Bill (CAN Bill), includes a climate and nature citizens’ assembly
• Why improving social housing could be remarkably simple (and affordable), theconversation.com (Jan 17, 2025, UK)
• UK student brews design for a repairable kettle that anyone can fix, positive.news (Jan 13, 2025, UK)
• I was in despair about the environmental crisis. Then I volunteered to clean up my local park, Sam Pyrah, theguardian.com (Jan 13, 2025, UK)
• All change! Why England’s public transport system could look very different very quickly, theconversation.com (Jan 16, 2025, UK)
• The UK is surprisingly short of water – but more reservoirs aren’t the answer, theconversation.com (Jan 13, 2025, UK)
• At Extinction Rebellion, we aimed for UK net zero in 2025. That won’t happen – so here’s what to do instead, Rupert Read, theguardian.com (Jan 01, 2025, UK) — With the climate crisis hitting Britain, we must build resilience at a local level by rewilding, saving water and fighting floods