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• How to make new housing estates work for the people who live there, theconversation.com (Nov 13, 2025, UK)
• Jailed climate activist wins appeal against deportation from UK, theguardian.com (Nov 10, 2025, UK) — Marcus Decker was served with deportation order while in prison for unveiling Just Stop Oil banner over Dartford Crossing. Decker’s appeal against deportation was supported by climate experts, religious leaders, celebrities, members of the public, The UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders, Michel Forst, 22 Nobel prize laureates and 562 actors, musicians and other artists
• England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year, theguardian.com (Nov 08, 2025, South East England; UK) — Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades. Comment: It surely then doesn't make sense to plan for and enable such a high proportion of new build in the most water stressed parts of England such as the South East?
• Cutting home insulation funding will imperil UK’s climate goals, Reeves told, theguardian.com (Nov 08, 2025, UK) — Energy firms and charities urge chancellor to avoid short-term fix that could also harm low-income households
• AI is beating doctors at empathy – because we’ve turned doctors into robots, theconversation.com (Nov 07, 2025, UK; Earth)
• Flooded UK coalmines could provide low-carbon cheap heat ‘for generations’, theguardian.com (Nov 06, 2025, UK) — Report says proven technology could benefit thousands in poor quality housing and help UK meet carbon reduction targets. Community engagement is vital, “In our experience, once people realise what value there is in the ground beneath their feet, they are enthusiastic. But many people, especially in less affluent communities, feel that things are being done ‘to them’ and not ‘with them’, and that breeds resentment and objection.” Prof Simone Abram, co-author and director of Durham Energy Institute
• The UK’s wealth ‘timebomb’ – and how to defuse it, theconversation.com (Nov 05, 2025, UK)
• PINF Forum explores the future of independent local news, thenews.coop (Nov 04, 2025, UK) — Media co-ops Salamander News, Bristol Cable and organiser Leicester Gazette were among those looking for ways forward
• Wind power has saved UK consumers over £100 billion since 2010 – new study, theconversation.com (Oct 28, 2025, UK)
• Life in the UK didn’t improve last year reveals 7000-person study, carnegieuk.org (Oct 01, 2025, UK) — The UK scores 41 out of a possible 100 for democratic wellbeing
• ‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners, theguardian.com (Oct 25, 2025, UK) — Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
• A home insulation fiasco has left tens of thousands in cold and leaky homes over winter, theconversation.com (Oct 22, 2025, UK)
• Why we need to talk about adaptation, not just mitigation, in climate politics [DeSmog], Daily Alternative (Oct 20, 2025, UK)
• Allowing communities the opportunity to shape what happens in their area is a central part of planning democracy, cpre.org.uk (Oct 15, 2025, UK) — The government’s approach risks valuing the voices of investors and big developers over ordinary people and nature
• Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk, theguardian.com (Oct 14, 2025, UK) — Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds
• Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist, theguardian.com (Oct 13, 2025, UK; Earth) — Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction
• UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows, theguardian.com (Oct 08, 2025, UK) — Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’
• National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn, theguardian.com (Oct 08, 2025, UK)
• UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development, theguardian.com (Oct 02, 2025, UK) — Nature and farmland equivalent in size to that of the New Forest – 604 sq km – lost to concrete and bricks and mortar in the UK between 2018 and 2023
• UK fracking ban to be brought forward, theguardian.com (Oct 01, 2025, UK) — government to speed up its plans to permanently ban fracking in the UK
• Citizens, food and next steps, ffcc.co.uk (Sep 29, 2025, UK) — Citizen Advisory Council publish new report, calling for fairness in the new Food Strategy
• Study finds that £416 of the average bill of £1,719 taken as pre-tax profits by the major electricity generators, networks and household suppliers last year, theguardian.com (Sep 17, 2025, UK) — UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation – study
• Seven million households missing out on benefits and support, BBC News (Sep 13, 2025, UK)
• Area of England well protected for nature is in decline, data shows, theguardian.com (Sep 10, 2025, UK) — Wildlife coalition says figure stands at 2.83% of country, less than in 2024 and tiny fraction of the 2030 target of 30%
• Why building nature-centric housing involves a mindset shift, theconversation.com (Sep 08, 2025, UK)
• Energy users ‘could save £5bn a year’ if gas plants are removed from market, theguardian.com (Sep 04, 2025, UK)
• Woodcraft Folk: A century of co-op education for social change, thenews.coop (Sep 03, 2025, UK)
• This was the hottest summer on record. If it happens again next year, Britain’s ecosystems won’t cope, Lucy Jones, theguardian.com (Sep 03, 2025, UK) — A future of extreme heatwaves, drought and collapsing habitats awaits if we continue to ignore the danger signs
• UK’s richest set to produce 13 times more transport emissions than poorest by 2035, theguardian.com (Aug 27, 2025, UK)
• Poor decisions plague many national infrastructure projects – involving the public earlier in the process would help avoid them, theconversation.com (Aug 20, 2025, UK)
• From clean air to pesticides: how UK has lagged behind EU on the environment, theguardian.com (Aug 19, 2025, UK) — Labour has continued to diverge from bloc’s laws, meaning most of UK’s protections are weaker than pre-Brexit
• The Guardian view on food and farming: climate chaos hits crops hard, Editorial, theguardian.com (Aug 18, 2025, UK) — Ministers must throw their weight behind resilient, adaptable agriculture
• Hot, dry summers bring new 'firewave' risk to UK cities, scientists warn, BBC News (Aug 14, 2025, UK)
• Lagos state government turns to co-ops to drive inclusive economy, thenews.coop (Aug 12, 2025, Nigeria; Earth)
• UK taxpayers on hook as failed Cumbria coalmine investors sue government, theguardian.com (Aug 11, 2025, UK)
• Overheated homes: why UK housing is dangerously unprepared for impact of climate crisis, theguardian.com (Aug 10, 2025, UK)
• Cool Britannia: the heat pumps keeping pace with the UK’s wild weather, theguardian.com (Aug 09, 2025, UK)
• The UK is losing its small fishing boats – and the communities they support, theconversation.com (Aug 08, 2025, UK)
• Analysis: Record UK wildfires have burned an area twice the size of Glasgow in 2025, carbonbrief.org (Aug 08, 2025, UK)
• What happens when communities have access to land ownership data?, digitalcommons.coop (Aug 06, 2025, UK)
• Bite Back: the young activists taking on the junk food giants, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 24, 2025, UK)
• Shining examples: the renewable engineering marvels reshaping skylines, positive.news (Jul 22, 2025, UK)
• ‘Compassion and care are being stripped away’: a Just Stop Oil activist on her time in prison, Louise Lancaster, theguardian.com (Jul 21, 2025, UK)
• Community right to buy announced as part of English Devolution Bill, thenews.coop (Jul 18, 2025, UK) — “For every neighbourhood to be able to reap the rewards of the Right to Buy – especially in more disadvantaged areas – it must be backed with proper resources.” Tony Armstrong, Locality. “The new requirement for neighbourhood-level governance... must place local people alongside council representatives as equal partners in decision-making." Richard Bell, We’re Right Here campaign for community power
• England’s communities got a boost, positive.news (Jul 18, 2025, UK) — Community empowerment bill ‘lifeline’ for pubs and other assets threatened with closure
• UK Gov reveals anticipated new food strategy, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 17, 2025, UK) — The Soil Association is among those who remain concerned that the ultra-processed food industry is having too much of an influence on food and health policy (which politicians do finally appear to be linking together)
• England’s water supply could run out in 20 years, MPs warn, independent.co.uk (Jul 10, 2025, South East England; UK) — The report draws upon work by the National Audit Office (NAO), which warns parts of the south and southeast of England are at the highest risk of running dry in the next 20 years in its water supply and demand management report in June
• OBR: Net-zero is much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly, carbonbrief.org (Jul 08, 2025, UK)
• What people really want from their GP – it’s simpler than you might think, theconversation.com (Jul 07, 2025, UK)
• The NHS ten-year health plan is missing a crucial ingredient: nature, theconversation.com (Jul 04, 2025, UK)
• Low turnout and an unfair voting system: UK elections ranked in the bottom half of countries in Europe, theconversation.com (Jul 03, 2025, UK)
• UK may be on verge of triggering a ‘positive tipping point’ for tackling climate change, theconversation.com (Jul 02, 2025, UK)
• Twelve of England’s regional mayors back plan for ‘national active travel network’, theguardian.com (Jul 02, 2025, UK)
• Britons could soon install balcony solar panels in flats and rental homes, theguardian.com (Jun 30, 2025, UK) — Proposals would enable Britons to save on energy bills and join millions of people in Europe who use ‘plug-in’ panels
• Air quality isn’t just bad in cities – here’s why and how we’re tracking pollution from upland fires, theconversation.com (Jun 30, 2025, UK)
• Weak UK lobbying laws let fossil fuel giants influence climate policies, opendemocracy.net (Jun 26, 2025, UK) — Three-quarters of the public believe the government is “rigged to serve the rich and influential”, according to polling conducted by More in Common and University College London’s Policy Lab last year
• ‘New hope’: ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to dieback, study reveals, theguardian.com (Jun 26, 2025, UK)
• Support for proportional representation hits record high according to new research, electoral-reform.org.uk (Jun 25, 2025, UK) — 60% of the British public now support proportional representation
• More people buying electric cars and heat pumps than ever before, BBC News (Jun 25, 2025, UK)
• ​​​​​​​Make electricity cheaper for consumers, says climate advisor, theccc.org.uk (Jun 25, 2025, UK) — "The Government needs to do more to ensure people see the benefits of climate action in their bills. Given increasingly unstable geopolitics, it is also important to get off unreliable fossil fuels and onto homegrown, renewable energy as quickly as possible." Interim Chair of the Climate Change Committee, Professor Piers Forster
• UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds, theguardian.com (Jun 25, 2025, UK) — Climate Change Committee says current targets could be met provided country takes ‘steps forward’ to achieve them
• How to protect your favourite urban trees from increasing danger, theconversation.com (Jun 23, 2025, UK)
• A blueprint for action: lifting the lid on what public engagement looks like in practice, climateoutreach.org (Jun 19, 2025, UK)
• How the threat of extreme heat is starting to change our holiday plans, BBC News (Jun 18, 2025, UK; Earth)
• Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Jun 13, 2025, UK)
• Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals, theguardian.co (Jun 03, 2025, UK)
• England’s water crisis needs more than just new reservoirs – here’s what will help, theconversation.com (Jun 02, 2025, UK)
• How to create a thriving forest, not box-checking ‘tree cover’, theconversation.com (May 27, 2025, UK)
• The report "Our Mutual Friend" shows how The BBC could genuinely be owned by we, the citizens, Daily Alternative (May 19, 2025, UK)
• Rooftop revolution: Why putting solar on car parks makes sense, cpre.org.uk (May 16, 2025, UK)
• The Guardian view on green homes: solar panels and heat pumps should be a bare minimum, Editorial, theguardian.com (May 15, 2025, UK)
• MP to launch bill to target superyachts, private jets and fossil fuel producers, theguardian.com (May 15, 2025, UK) — Bill would force major polluters to pay into fund for flood defences and home insulation – but has little chance of becoming law. “There’s huge public support for making big polluters pay up for the climate damage they’ve caused." Louise Hutchins, Stamp Out Poverty
• Overhaul needed to prevent benefit claimants suffering harm, MPs say, BBC News (May 15, 2025, UK)
• Britain is already becoming an ‘island of strangers’ – but immigration isn’t the driver, theconversation.com (May 14, 2025, UK)
• Exceptionally low river flows forecast across UK as drought threat grows, theguardian.com (May 14, 2025, UK)
• Citizens to shape new Food Strategy, ffcc.co.uk (May 07, 2025, UK)
• 'Citizen Mandate for Change' reveals a strong public mandate for action to change the way that food is eaten, grown and produced in the UK, ffcc.co.uk (May 06, 2025, UK) — The public want a rethink of the food system – and want it transformed to work for everyone – families, farmers, communities and the planet. There is now a powerful opportunity for governments and citizens to work together towards a healthier, fairer and more secure food future
• The Community Centre in 2040 [New Local], Daily Alternative (May 05, 2025, UK)
• Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027, theguardian.com (May 01, 2025, UK)
• The UK’s social security system falls way below international human rights standards: new report, theconversation.com (Apr 25, 2025, UK)
• UK government report calls for stronger legal safeguards to save England’s Ancient oaks, theguardian.com (Apr 16, 2025, UK)
• A victory for community energy – Government respond with new funding and support, powerforpeople.org.uk (Apr 11, 2025, UK)
• The English neighbourhood that claims to hold the secret to fixing the NHS, BBC News (Apr 08, 2025, UK)
• Food in shocking times, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Apr 03, 2025, UK) — Tim Lang spent two years investigating UK public preparedness for food shortages and shocks to the system. What he found makes for sobering reading
• Government announces £20m package for community-led housing, thenews.coop (Mar 27, 2025, UK)
• Can local food hubs fix our broken food system?, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Mar 27, 2025, UK)
• Rewilding the curriculum: natural history GCSE to be introduced in the UK, positive.news (Mar 24, 2025, UK)
• Just Stop Oil protester, 78, who was returned to jail as no tag fitted her, on her life inside, theguardian.com (Mar 23, 2025, UK)
• What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care. George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Mar 21, 2025, UK)
• Starmer’s plan to ‘build baby build’ risks more American-style car-dominated sprawl, theconversation.com (Mar 20, 2025, UK)
• ‘The prison system is insanely broken’: a climate activist on his experience in jail, theguardian.com (Mar 19, 2025, UK)
• Let juries judge disruptive protesters like Just Stop Oil on their integrity – expert view, theconversation.com (Mar 15, 2025, UK)
• 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)
• Costly nitrogen pollution can be tackled by farmers adopting organic practices, Lords told, soilassociation.org (Mar 05, 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