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The Conversation: Cities could save billions of pounds, while saving the planet – here’s how

14/11/2017 by Paul Ducker Leave a Comment

The ‘Can-do-Cities’ initiative is showing how local actions have the potential to save as much as £7 billion each year across the 50 largest cities in the UK – that’s equivalent to £300 per year for every person in each of these cities – and create more than 90,000 years of extra employment.

Filed Under: Climate change, Communities, consumption and the local economy, Spotted on the web Tagged With: adaptation, cities, local, local government, mitigation, policy

Government treating Global Goals as ‘developing world issue’, MPs warn

29/04/2017 by Paul Ducker

The Government has failed to set out plans to achieve a series of international goals in the UK, from ending poverty and hunger to tackling climate change, MPs have warned. Instead it is treating the Sustainable Development Goals, also known as the Global Goals, as a ‘developing world issue’ and has no clear plan to implement them in the UK, the parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee has warned. With Brexit triggered, could the goals be a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a cross-party consensus on sustainable development in the UK?

Filed Under: Global connections, Spotted on the web Tagged With: international, policy, SDGs, sustainable development

European countries ramp up battle against plastic waste

28/04/2017 by Paul Ducker

Plastic waste is under scrutiny, as the UK Environmental Audit launches an inquiry into the impact of waste from coffee cups and packaging, and Belgium and France join the United Nations’ campaign to ban micro-plastics.

Filed Under: Global connections, Spotted on the web, Waste Tagged With: food system, international, marine pollution, plastic waste, policy, pollution

New Committee on Fuel Poverty sets out the challenges, and some possible answers

25/10/2016 by Paul Ducker

The Committee on Fuel Poverty has published its first report – spelling out what needs to be done to help England’s 2.38 million households struggling to pay their energy bills.

Filed Under: Communities, consumption and the local economy, Energy, Spotted on the web Tagged With: fuel poverty, policy, strategy

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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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