On 9 July Coventry-based E.ON UK plc announced that all domestic customers, numbering more than 3.3 million, will receive 100% renewable electricity at no extra cost. E.ON is one of the UK’s largest renewable energy generators. It plans to draw … Continue reading →
Article by Barbara Golding, Ecologist, Warwickshire County Council, Ecological Services Retaining and enhancing biodiversity in the natural environment has long been an issue partly because biodiversity has not had an economic value attached to it, so unlike products and services … Continue reading →
The National Lottery Community Fund has today [17 July] launched a new £100 million Climate Action Fund that will enable people and communities to take the lead in tackling the climate emergency. The new fund, from the largest funder of … Continue reading →
The Non-household Municipal Waste Business Grant scheme is part of the £18 million Resource Action Fund, which has been established by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to support resource efficiency projects, with the goal of diverting, reducing and … Continue reading →
The Solar Schools project was run by 10:10 Climate Action from 2012 to 2016. They worked with 80 schools from Stockton-on-Tees to the Scilly Isles who used crowdfunding to raise £723,000 and install 2370 panels. That adds up to 3,894 … Continue reading →
10:10 brings people together to do practical, positive stuff to tackle climate change. Their website says: We’re on a mission to speed up action on climate change. We know that the speed and scale we’ll need to work at means … Continue reading →
GreenBusiness is organising this event on 30 July 2019 8am-10.30am in Crowne Plaza, Stratford Upon Avon. Following the Government’s announcement that the UK will be zero carbon by 2050, businesses need to be aware what help is available to them … Continue reading →
Solihull Council’s Grid for Learning (Solgrid) offers a wide range of services and information to empower schools to develop sustainability from whatever starting point they are at. A schools’ sustainability engagement officer based in the sustainable development team works with schools. The Solihull … Continue reading →
CovCAN will have a stall at Positive FarGo, Fargo Village, Far Gosford Street, Coventry CV1 5ED from 10:00 to 16:00 on Sat 13 and Sun 14 July. All CovCAN members and others wanting to promote action on climate change are … Continue reading →
This article by Ben Ballin was originally published by the National Association for Environmental Education in May 2019. Ben is an NAEE Fellow, a geography and global learning consultant and chair of the West Midlands Sustainable Schools Network [@wmsussch ]. … Continue reading →