How CSE engaged local people in community energy project
Joanna Watson28 Jun 2021
Harriet Sansom from CSE talks frankly about her experience of running Powering Up, a community engagement project across 3 communities, what they learned through taking an experimental approach and why there are invaluable lessons for others with similar ambitions.
How do we create the conditions to drive transformation?
Mary Stevens29 Apr 2021
Mary Stevens reflects on how to facilitate radical change to meet the climate and nature crises.
From landowner to land steward – how companies can use data to enhance nature
Joanna Watson18 Mar 2021
We talk to digital activist and tech entrepreneur Jaya Chakrabarti about connecting business to communities to regenerate nature.
Driving into the future – lessons from a pilot electric car-sharing scheme in North Wales
Christian Graham28 Jan 2021
Christian Graham discusses the scheme that loaned an electric car to Partneriaeth Ogwen with Rhys Gwilym of MenterMôn.
Doing good with your money - where next for OwnIt?
25 Jan 2021
We’ve tested and flexed OwnIt to empower women to do good with their money. Where next for this exciting initiative?
How one car kickstarted a local green revolution
Joanna Watson17 Nov 2020
Christian Graham explains how one community-owned electric car kickstarted a local green revolution in his hometown in North Wales.
Finding hope in the green belt
Mark Thurstain03 Nov 2020
Mark Thurstain of Geofutures explains how they partnered with Friends of the Earth to plot the locations of potential Hope Spots in Bath and Bristol’s green belt
How a peer learning approach to personal finance inspired Know Better Food
Joanna Watson03 Nov 2020
Kate Ford of Better Food Traders explains why they were inspired to trial OwnIt's peer learning approach to help people make better food choices.
How might we use AI to address our biggest challenges?
Mary Stevens27 Oct 2020
Mary Stevens welcomes progress on linking AI, climate and community action and shows how it could help deliver practical environmental projects.
How a new mapping tool identifies potential for doubling tree cover
Joanna Watson16 Sep 2020
How a ground breaking mapping tool empowers activists to talk to landowners about creating new tree cover.
Own It: team up to take climate action
05 May 2020
Why is now the time for women to come together to take climate action with their finances, and what is the best way to do it?
The puzzle of land for trees: supporting communities to find the missing pieces
Mary Stevens03 Apr 2020
Mary Stevens shares our work in finding land for trees as a natural climate solution.
Future Forest Fund: how to grow a better future
Joanna Watson31 Jan 2020
How an investment product for young people could unlock finance for woodland creation
From hot spots to hope spots. Bringing a wildly different green belt to life.
Mary Stevens15 Jan 2020
The climate crisis is motivating people to plant trees and make space for nature to recover. Can we use a local mapping tool to show them where to start?
Community rewilding incubator
Danny Gross21 Nov 2019
How a community-led rewilding incubator could engage people in land management decisions as a beacon for other areas.