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Groundwork

Reporting back from communities and businesses around the UK who are building a green future

9 October 2021

  • A group of visitors with a volunteer at Steart Marshes. Steart Working Wetlands, CIEEM.

    ‘These salt marshes saved my life’: how nature is helping mental health

    Green social prescribing, where people are referred to nature projects, on the rise across UK

21 September 2021

  • Lucy Mitchell, a community project worker with the Golden Hill Community Garden, in Horfield, Bristol.

    ‘Revolutionary in a quiet way’: the rise of community gardens in the UK

    Royal Horticultural Society sets up first Community Awards as community gardens become more common

9 September 2021

  • The rare and declining wood white butterfly

    Surrey heating co-op’s woodland scheme entices rare butterfly to return

    Scheme that uses locally harvested woodchip to heat homes of retired sailors yields biodiversity benefits

31 August 2021

  • Rob Jones-Mantle was a founding member of Magpie Co-operative, one of the oldest recycling teams in the country.

    ‘There’s no point in throwing away if you can fix it’: a day out with the recycling van

    ‘Protest organisation’ that collects recyclable waste from thousands in Brighton sets sights on the future

30 August 2021

  • Men rolling barrels up a beach

    Sustainable scotch: Hebridean distillery aims for net zero whisky

    Islay’s 9 distilleries burn 15m litres of oil a year. Now Bruichladdich is leading a radical effort to reduce emissions

18 August 2021

  • Boris Afinogenov as trained by Manchester’s Carbon Co-op to retrofit homes, specialising in flooring insulation.

    Retrofitting: why carbon-reducing renovations are going to be big business

  • Rokhsana Fiaz

    UK government ‘failing to help local leaders achieve net zero’

14 August 2021

  • Bobby Sethi talks through a low NOx hydrogen micromix combustion test rig, which is designed to replicate the conditions of combustion at cruising altitude

    ‘They said we were eccentrics’: the UK team developing clean aviation fuel

    In the search for sustainable flying, Cranfield University might have found the answer in hydrogen

12 August 2021

  • Lynn Cassells, left, and Sandra Baer

    Cairngorms crofters: ‘We don’t follow a capitalist grow-grow-grow model’

  • Knepp was one of the original rewilding projects, but many more have sprung up across the UK.

    Rewilding 5% of England could create 20,000 rural jobs

11 August 2021

  • John Cherry of Weston Park Farms

    Regenerative farming shift could reduce UK climate emissions, say experts

    Organic farming methods, which use fewer pesticides and store more carbon in soil, are becoming more popular

10 August 2021

  • Hemp seed milk from Good Hemp, the UK’s first and biggest producer

    Hemp milk claims to be the greenest yet – but is it any good?

    Newcomer on dairy alternative scene is vegan, sequesters carbon and increases biodiversity
  • Southeastern’s station gardens have bloomed thanks to the ongoing group effort from station staff and volunteers in the local community.

    Tell us: how is it to work in a green job or run a green business?

    We’d like to hear from people in the UK who work in green jobs – and how they’re finding it

    • UK’s green economy nearly four times larger than manufacturing sector, says report

    • Green revolution brings fresh hope to north-east England

    • Abandoned pits of former mining town fuel green revolution

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