Thousands of fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil – the most intense for almost a decade. Wildfires often occur in the dry season in Brazil but they are also deliberately started in efforts to illegally deforest land for … Continue reading →
The Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA) is a collaboration of leading global cities working to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80-100% by 2050 or sooner — the most aggressive GHG reduction targets undertaken anywhere by any city. Check out our … Continue reading →
The Swiss city of Lausanne has today published a plan to become carbon neutral by 2030. As a pioneering city in the field of sustainability and energy policy, Lausanne intends to play a driving and inciting role in the fight … Continue reading →
For the current list of suggested ideas for what CovCAN could do to promote knowledge and action on climate change, see this document. To suggest more ideas use the Comments form at the bottom of this page.
Continue reading →A Community Fridge is a fridge where people can deposit and collect unwanted food. In Coventry, Queens Road Baptist Church has a Community Fridge and Larder. Another example was installed in Brixton in 2017. Known as the People’s Fridge, it cost … Continue reading →
OLIO is a free app that runs on Android and Apple devices that lets you connect with your neighbours and local shops so that surplus food, and other household items can be shared with each other, not thrown away. Everything … Continue reading →
In September 2018, the University introduced a new pricing initiative in Warwick cafés to incentivise customers to use reusable cups, therefore decreasing single cup consumption on the University campus and ultimately reducing negative impact on the environment. To aid the … Continue reading →
Your Rubbish helps all residents living in Coventry know what, when and how to recycle and dispose of their waste. Do you ever forget to put your bins out? Maybe you’re sometimes unsure whether to put out the blue-lidded recycling bin … Continue reading →
This video was made by Mustard Seeds Home Education Group in Coventry prior to the COP21 summit in Paris.
Continue reading →This BBC radio broadcast from the World Service series People Fixing the World was first broadcast on 11 June 2019. Download here.
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