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“Tree officers are the custodians. There’s been a whole chain of people who’ve looked after those trees since the mid-1800s. We’ll never know their names – but there’s a sense of being part of something larger. And that’s a wonderful privilege.”
Alex Diggins interviews John Parker of the Arboricultural Association.
A conversation with Britain’s leading urban forester about street trees and green equity.
Some pics from the first night at The Gipsy Queen!
So pleased that Kentish Town's The Gipsy Queen is stocking recycled steel cups by our partners Ecodisco – a brilliant alternative to single-use plastics. Get down there!
takes Brighton!
''Together we can inspire people, and establishments, to encourage a more sustainable eco-friendly alternative to single-use pint cups.''
Read more here about the campaign here:
https://thebadgeronline.com/2020/06/plasticfreepints-the-future-of-takeaway/
Photo Credit: Simon Lee
Ours to Save Ecodisco
'Decisions made at the very beginning of the design process set the scene for what happens at the end of a structure’s life cycle – whether it be a bathroom vanity unit or a skyscraper. Architects, designers and construction professionals should see the materials they use as part of a wider store of resources, rather than as one-off constituents of one-off projects.'
📍Bethnal Green, London: our editor Florence Wildblood looks at a new green beginning for the built environment.
More than 50,000 buildings are demolished every year. What happens next?
Thanks Secret London ✌️
Takeaway pints are all the rage in the UK right now. But, this campaign is here to remind you that the single-use plastic glasses are damaging to the planet
Find out in this piece from Joycelyn Longdon of Climate In Colour.
We need to make sure this potentially groundbreaking resolution doesn't impact negatively on the Global South.
Seagrass meadows are able to sequester and store carbon 40 times faster than tropical forests, but they are in rapid decline.
📍 Cardiff, Wales: Esmé Audland profiles Project Seagrass, a charity working to replant the UK's underwater meadows.
Can we combat the silent loss of our underwater meadows?
Thanks to Time Out London for the latest feature on !
During London’s lockdown, air pollution was was at its lowest in 70 years, wildlife re-emerged all over the place and Londoners discovered local spots of nature
“If clubbers refuse single-use items, or if they actively ask for reusable items, this can already be a huge help — some clubs think guests wouldn’t support moves to make their venues more sustainable.”
📍Berlin, Germany:
Jack McGovan talks plastic and clubbing, ft. Ecodisco Oval Space meraki clubliebe e.V. and more.
Meet the clubs and pubs on the frontline of the fight against plastic.
What they said ⬇️
This weekend Ecodisco and Ours to Save are challenging you to refuse single-use at your local boozers, whether you're filling up on lemonade or downing pints of vodka 👇
Remember to:
1. Bring your own reusable cup or container when buying your takeaway pint from the pub.
2. Take a pic; tag and .tosave and ; upload to Instagram.
3. Nominate 5 of your mates to do the same 🍻
We've been featured by Euronews English!
Read the lowdown on why Ours to Save and Ecodisco are bringing you the future of beer below.
And then get those reusable vessels ready for a weekend of sun and sustainability.
A campaign has been launched to help tackle the rise of single-use cups from takeaway pints.
Read about our campaign with Ecodisco in The Telegraph today!
We're encouraging pubs to stock reusable cups and punters to bring their own containers, nominating their mates to take part in our challenge. Let's stop that post-lockdown litter in its tracks. 💚
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/takeaway-pints-rage-plastic-pollution/?fbclid=IwAR3uFKGpKnqOo4TQV7-F253VyUn1QRB9NjBhkE2lZY0NUmG48ctTAcz-IGo
Park and beaches are being strewn with litter, most of it in the form of single-use food and drink packaging
'The country is now reconsidering its long-time dependence on hydropower, as chronic droughts cut production at its massive hydro dams. These droughts - caused by climate change - have in recent years lowered water levels, severely curtailing power production. Zambia has as a result seen electricity shortages estimated at around one third of its total installed hydroelectric capacity.'
📍Lusaka, Zambia: Derrick Silimina looks into Zambia's impending shift to solar power.
Droughts have made Zambia's reliance on hydropower unsustainable. Now the country is embracing solar energy.
Another one on global responses to the 🗑WASTE 🗑problem...
'How do you make environmentalism work within an ineffective system? One answer – through creativity'
📍Lagos, Nigeria: Funmi Lijadu profiles Wecyclers, an organisation helping Lagos residents turn trash into cash, reducing the spread of disease and air pollution in crowded urban areas in the process.
Just 40% of waste in Lagos was collected when Wecyclers emerged in 2012. Here’s how the organisation is changing things.
📍Redfern, Sydney:
1 of 2 fascinating features for you on the environmental impact of single-use plastic and similar materials. Our writers have been looking into creative ways of dealing with the problem of waste, and how we can change our habits as consumers. On the site now: Anna Turitsyna interviews AJ Linke of Seaside Scavenge about engaging people with litter-picking and recycling, before helping them change their buying habits for good. Hold tight for a profile of Lagos’ Wecyclers tomorrow.
When it comes to plastic pollution, Seaside Scavenge encourage behaviour change for system change.
Thanks so much to Katie for showing us her and nominating some friends to do the same.
'This will be a test of what we’ve learnt. Are we serious about bringing new and sustainable habits into this changed world of ours? About showing our corporations and governments that we’ve had enough of plastic? We’ve got to come out of this crisis ready to fight back against the next one.'
Go get your , take a picture and tag .tosave and on Instagram for the whole world to see.
Our editor-in-chief Flossie Wildblood introduces Ours to Save's first campaign, .
Our editor-in-chief introduces Ours to Save’s first campaign, in collaboration with Ecodisco.
“It’s been really simple to adapt... we’ve been able to keep all departments running at 100%.”
Local supply chains have kept Flamingos' Life alive during lockdown.
📍Elche, Spain: Abi Malins talks fast fashion, ocean plastic, and cruelty-free footwear with their CEO, Carlos García Sánchez.
Ethical footwear brand Flamingos’ Life is a fashionable force for good
"Community allows the Barrier to thrive. The acquisition of fish is just one example: fresh fish cannot be purchased on the island, so you must be a keen fisherman or know one if you want to have fresh fish for dinner. This has created a barter-type system, where home grown veg or a DIY helping hand may be exchanged for said fish."
📍 Great Barrier Island, New Zealand: Jasmine Balloch experiences a circular economy first-hand.
What can we learn from Great Barrier Island.
"They investigated the face shield market and with one of their engineers, made a prototype by hand from their recycled plastic, using staples, binder shield covers, foam from mattresses and other materials."
📍Gulu, Uganda: Takataka Plastics normally make affordable construction materials from recycled plastic waste. During the covid-19 crisis, they have started making face shields for hospitals in Gulu.
Read Eliza Scott's profile –
Using recycled plastic to make face shields in Uganda
The Ours to Save team are in the running for a UCL Sustainability Award. 🙌
📍Samaná, Dominican Republic:
'He is a holistic climate change activist: he protests the local landfill, then works as a conservationist when the Humpback whales visit in the winter. He is an educator, demonstrator, project leader, general nuisance, benevolent ear or angry voice.'
Jon Bonfiglio, Latin America Correspondent for talkRADIO, profiles Samaná's Wilfredo Benjamin.
Jon Bonfiglio profiles his friend and colleague Wildo, a man famous in the northeast Dominican Republic for unconventional climate activism.
Wooooooaaaaaah we're halfway there! HUGE thanks and appreciation to everyone who has donated so far. Keep 'em coming 🌍💚
Saving the environment will be hard – we want to make it easier. Ours to Save is a new media model for reporting the climate crisis.
If you missed our piece on the upcoming Local Electricity Bill, the bank holiday weekend is as good a time as any to check it out – and maybe even to write a letter to your MP in support of the bill.
The Local Electricity Bill signals new hope for sourcing renewable energy locally.
Thanks for the love SAVAGE ✌️
Saving the environment will be hard – we want to make it easier. Ours to Save is a new media model for reporting the climate crisis.
“You want to buy locally baked bread? You can. You want to buy locally brewed beer? You can. You want to buy locally generated, clean energy? You can’t.”
📍London, UK: our editor Florence Wildblood highlights an important upcoming bill, the Local Electricity Bill.
The Local Electricity Bill signals new hope for sourcing renewable energy locally.
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Saving the environment will be hard – we want to make it easier. Ours to Save is a new media model for reporting the climate crisis.
📍Chhattisgarh, India:
'At present, not just Baigas but healers of all indigenous groups face a range of challenges related to laws, livelihoods, and climate change.'
Ankita Anand has been covering land rights in Chhattisgargh since 2018. Here, she talks about the situation with Samerth Trust.
Indigenous healers in central India are struggling in the face of legal and environmental challenges.
Poland’s pollution levels remain high despite current European trends. Why?
“It wasn’t an action to try and revolutionise activism – I didn’t want to change anything about youth activists or what they do because I don’t think it’s appropriate for youth to be doing hunger strikes.”
📍London, UK: Phoebe Potter interviews one of the UK's leading young climate activists, Elijah McKenzie-Jackson.
An interview with one of the UK’s leading young climate activists, Elijah McKenzie-Jackson.
New on the climate map this week:
📍 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Green energy investment North of Tyne; £25 million over the next 8 years.
📍 Biebrza National Park, Poland: Wildfires destroy swathes of Poland's largest national park.
📍 Ebo Forest, Cameroon: Logging in the protected forest will threaten lives of great apes.
📍 Cornwall, UK: Surfers Against Sewage campaign goes digital to track plastic pollution in Britain's public spaces and beaches.
📍Guinea: A group of West African sailors concerned about the environment are cleaning up ports as they go.
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📍Tropojë, Albania:
Ashley Parsons speaks to Catherine Bohne of TOKA, who is fighting to keep hydropower dams away from the Valbona River.
Catherine Bohne is leading the fight to keep hydropower off the wild Valbona River in Northern Albania.
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New on the climate map:
📍 Villa Tunari, Cochabamba, Bolivia: Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi, who rescue animals from illegal trafficking, seek donations
📍 Yolosa nr. Coroico, Bolivia: La Senda Verde Wildlife Sanctuary urgently seek donations
📍Abidjan, Ivory Coast: African Development Bank strongly rebuts claims it plans to provide financial support to the East African Crude Oil Pipeline
📍Lund University, Sweden: Activism within Academia | Live-streamed Panel Discussion
📍Bristol, UK: Earth Minutes Easter Insta takeover and other climate related activities
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Climate change is already happening. But there are a lot of people already on the case. Inspired by the impact of rolling news coverage during the covid-19 pandemic, we want to replicate this level of urgency for another crisis – one that’s just around the corner, but that we still largely have the power to prevent. We want to make it easier to visualise where we’re making progress and where we’re failing, and therefore possible to hold the powerful to account and lift up those fighting back from the grassroots. So, we’ve made an interactive platform for crowdsourced, global climate news. We can’t wait to see what you do with it.
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Our climate map is free for all to access. You can scroll over the pins, checking out stories from your neighbourhood and much further afield. On our news page you’ll find in-depth investigations of the issues raised on the map, features and op-eds by prominent and emerging journalists, and the back catalogue of all our pins and stories. We are also in the process of building an initiatives page – a platform for purchasing eco-friendly produce, and supporting sustainable projects, research and ventures.
