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Diversity key to educating about climate change, claim young people

ianmorton Posted on July 16, 2019July 18, 2019

A new initiative has launched to encourage the advertising industry to diversity, following research that found women are more effective than men at tackling the issue.

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Arts sector celebrated for tackling climate change

ianmorton Posted on July 9, 2019July 9, 2019

The third annual Creative Green Awards has taken place as part of Climate Action Week. The awards celebrated actions taken by the arts world to tackle climate change and environmental sustainability.

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Recycled packaging raft race

Sarah Colombini Posted on June 7, 2019June 7, 2019

Packaging reuse champions narrowly miss out on winning the Penryn Raft Race

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Promote vegan diet to support environment, claims charity

ianmorton Posted on May 23, 2019May 23, 2019

The Vegan Society has written to all UK politicians urging them to introduce vegan-friendly policies to help tackle climate change.

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Environment campaigners across 33 countries take action

ianmorton Posted on April 23, 2019April 23, 2019

Tens of thousands of people across 33 countries have taken part in a campaign to raise awareness of the environmental issues facing the world. Extinction Rebellion’s campaign began on 15 April with a ‘festival of creative resistance’ in London.

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Supermarket launches £1m initiative to tackle UK plastic pollution

heatherrogers Posted on February 13, 2019February 12, 2019

Organisations are encouraged to bid for the Waitrose grants by 24th February

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British boffins club together to tackle world challenges

ianmorton Posted on January 29, 2019January 24, 2019

Teams of researchers in the UK are being funded by the UK government to work more closely with their international counterparts to help tackle of the world’s biggest challenges. The challenges include plastic pollution, dementia and antibiotic resistance.

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Hydrogen homes can power the economy

Nancy Platts Posted on January 3, 2019December 30, 2018

Converting homes and businesses to run on hydrogen rather than natural gas could help substantially reduce the UK’s carbon emissions, create thousands of new jobs and provide a much welcome boost to the economy.

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Lottery funding helps kids turn schools green

Sarah Colombini Posted on November 21, 2018November 20, 2018

Pupils at five schools held an event to launch their Big Lottery funded ‘Green Kids and Communities’ programme.

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Plastic eating enzyme could beat ocean waste

ianmorton Posted on September 25, 2018September 24, 2018

Find out the new way scientists hope to tackle the plastic filled oceans

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