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New Beginnings open a fridge to the community

06/07/2019 by Tony Cowling 1 Comment

Reading’s first community fridge is now up and running. Community Fridges provide a place for local residents and businesses to donate surplus food, which is then available for anyone in the community to take.

Filed Under: Featured, Food, News and views, Sustainable Reading, Waste Tagged With: community fridges, food waste, social inclusion

Breaking free of single use plastic in Reading – What is going on?

16/05/2018 by Paul Ducker 6 Comments

Hardly a day goes by without an announcement about another initiative to reduce plastic waste. This is great news. But with all the national noise it can be difficult to work out what is happening locally, and in particular the opportunities to take action at a personal level. So what is happening Reading?

Filed Under: Featured, News and views, Plastic pollution, Waste Tagged With: behaviour change, circular economy, plastic action, plastic packaging, plastic pollution, plastic straws, plastic waste, recycling, reusable cups, reusable straws, reuse, waste, water fountains, water refill network

Could your students tackle sustainable water issues?

12/03/2018 by Paul Ducker Leave a Comment

In this guest post Amber Robinson explains how Water Explorer is inspiring 8-14 year-olds in the UK and around the world to lead action on water issues. Alongside their own actions students also get to link up with groups of children taking similar action in other countries. Plus, Water Explorer’s online resources are freely available. What a great way to engage young people with action on water issues, starting locally but thinking globally.

Filed Under: Featured, Water Tagged With: case study, global goals, guest post, international, participatory, SDGs, teaching, teaching resources, water

Trying to live with less plastic? Try shampoo in a bar!

12/12/2017 by Jackie Hoskins Leave a Comment

Plastic has revolutionised so many areas of modern life. It is long lasting and virtually indestructible. Great characteristics in many respects. But too much plastic waste is also currently ending up in our oceans, landfill, even our food. It is widely accepted that we need to find alternatives where we can and get better at recycling it where we cannot. But what are the alternatives? How about shampoo in a bar?

Filed Under: Featured, News and views, Plastic pollution, Waste Tagged With: compostable packaging, plastic packaging, plastic waste, product review

Food rescue stories: Bread and Butter Pudding

21/11/2017 by Tony Cowling Leave a Comment

What recipes have you collected, or inherited, to use up surplus food? Here Tony describes how a Bread and Butter Pudding saved a build-up of stale bread from the bin (and made a delicious dessert) in the Cowling household. Do you have a food rescue recipe to share?

Filed Under: Featured, Food, News and views, Waste Tagged With: food, food rescue stories, food waste, recipes, reuse

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Reading Sustainability Centre

We are an education project linked to Transition Town Reading and Reading Hydro. Our goal is that Reading is recognised as a leader in practical action on sustainability, as well as a great place to live.

We are mostly virtual at the moment, but are working with a variety of partners to support the development of local sustainability experiments as well as ‘pop-up’ exhibitions and events. So please do keep checking back, or sign up for updates below. If you’d like to get more directly involved just drop us a line.

There is more about Reading Sustainability Centre on our Who we are page.

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