Despite a dip in greenhouse gas emissions from the COVID-19 economic slowdown, the world is still heading for a catastrophic temperature rise above 3°C this… Read More »A green pandemic recovery

By choosing to shop local this Christmas, consumers could double the amount of money that stays in their local area at a critical time for… Read More »Supporting your local business

Reducing waste and reusing materials, where possible, should come before recycling something. By reusing bottles, we reduce the amount of single-use packaging that needs to… Read More »The impact of glass/plastic/aluminium drinks bottles and cans

“In the midst of a human-caused extinction event, the environmental movement’s answer is to push for techno-fixes and band-aids. It’s too little, too late.” “An… Read More »Innovation or government emergency: how to tackle the climate crisis

“The internet is the ‘saviour’ of the countryside, as in order to help rural towns and villages prosper, it is necessary to have more remote… Read More »Calls for better internet coverage across rural areas

“These days, there’s more and more medical science which backs the healing effects of time spent in nature.” . Long-standing VGS member Graham Cooper has… Read More »The healing power of nature

Co Charger: “We enable people and businesses with chargers to make them available to their neighbourhoods.” . Exeter is doing very well with the Co… Read More »New e-car charging scheme for Exeter

Delivering grocery and takeaway food to local residents. You use an app to order your food, and the robot will deliver it to you. .… Read More »Autonomous delivery vehicles – aka robots on wheels

Local groups are increasingly taking over swathes of the country.   . The District Council allows communities to apply for recreation grounds and village pubs… Read More »Communities creating nature reserves

The pandemic has led some people to move to more rural locations. The annual price rise recorded in the South West of England in September… Read More »WFH in the West Country pushes up house prices

“The amazing impact local people can have.” . ‘Community enterprises’ might be a way forward to regenerate local areas and local economies – in very… Read More »Strengthening local economies with community enterprises

“Serious natural carbon sequestration, at whatever scale, requires regenerative landscape management practices such as putting in a biodiverse palette of native trees, flowers and grasses… Read More »Trees, plants and carbon

“A key response to achieving Net Zero emissions – both within the UK and globally – is to increase the area of woodland. Trees and… Read More »Agroforestry: growing not planting trees is the key

“The Flatpack Democracy movement has a proven track record. It brought about radical life-changing reforms to the community of Frome. If we can repeat its… Read More »Flatpack democracy: a new kind of ultra-local government

‘Plant Britain’ campaign to plant 750,000 trees across the UK . There are some great projects to get young people doing things with trees: Plant… Read More »one child – one tree