Writer's community challenge: how I helped bring in the harvest
Patrick Barkham took up this months Live Better challenge to get involved. How did he do on Oak Tree Low Carbon Farm?Oak Tree Low Carbon Farm essential informationOoh, youve taken a lot on, exclaimed...
View ArticleBicycle repair: taking it apart is the first step to putting it back together
Carlene Thomas-Bailey couldnt even identify a bike pump when she went along to a Broken Spoke Co-op workshop (the second in our community project series). Did she work it out?How to set up your own...
View ArticleHow to set up a bike repair co-operative
The Broken Spoke Co-operative is the second in our series on community projects; heres how they set up, and information about how you can do the same Carlene Bailey-Thomas went along to a repair...
View ArticleRecycling in the home: how to break down the barriers
Despite good intentions, only half of plastic bottles in Britain and France are recycled. Creativity is needed to change habitsGovernment, industry and consumers in the developed world have known about...
View ArticleWe made a wooden table then ate a meal on it people were amazed
Kilfinan Community Forest in Argyll, Scotland (fourth in our community project series) trades in timber and teaches visitors sustainability, forest and woodworking skillsHow to buy and grow a...
View ArticleThe house made from 4,000 video cassettes and two tonnes of jeans
The Brighton Waste House is Britains first house made almost entirely from rubbish, including chalk, coffee cups and lights en route to BangladeshRemember video cassettes, those big black boxes that...
View ArticleBanning food waste: companies in Massachusetts get ready to compost
Massachusetts recently enacted the most aggressive mandatory composting program in history, to affect supermarkets, colleges, nursing homes, and prisons. How are they adapting?Americas trash stream is...
View ArticleHow a neighbourhood scheme ended a nightmare on Ethel Street
A Halloween party was the unlikely catalyst to the revival in fortunes of a street in Neath Port Talbot, south Wales (our seventh community project), reviving community spiritHow to set up a...
View ArticleHow to set up a neighbourhood group
A community in a deprived area of Wales learned to use recycling projects and street parties to revive neighbourly spirit. Here are some tips for doing the same in your areaSteven Morris visits Friends...
View ArticleHow to set up your own Solar School
Want your own school to use solar panels and be a green energy example to pupils? 10:10s Esther Barlow explains howJoanne OConnell visited St Vincents, a school for the visually impaired where theyre...
View ArticleHow to create treasures out of rubbish
The Skip Sisters go skip-diving en masse, build dolls out of pianos and never let a good piece of rubbish go to wasteMore creative ideas from Do SomethingAnd more ways to get together with friendsThe...
View ArticleSwap till you drop: why a clothing exchange beats London fashion week
Leeds Community Clothing Exchange brings far more than fantastic fashion bargains it cuts down on clothes waste and is a vibrant social eventHow to set up a clothes swap in your areaOn exchange days,...
View ArticleHow to reupholster an office chair
Shabby fabric on a threadbare chair? Spruce up your seating with a professional finish by following these simple stepsOffice chairs are probably among the least sexy items of furniture around, and when...
View ArticleShare your pictures of good and bad packaging
Packaging is everywhere and on everything. Take a picture of the best and worst examples you see and share it on GuardianWitnessHow many tins, cartons and plastic pouches did you throw away when you...
View ArticleThe joys of a repair cafe: Mad Max with a KitKat and a nice cup of tea
When Niall Griffiths took his broken speaker to Llandrindod repair cafe, the solution sounded embarrassingly obviousHow to set up your own repair cafeWhat is a repair cafe? Its exactly what it says on...
View ArticleHow to set up your own repair cafe
Llandrindod Repair Cafe in Wales is part of the Repair Cafe Foundation. Want to prepare, share and repair too? These tips will help you fix itNiall Griffiths takes his broken speaker to Llandrindod12....
View ArticleMEPs demand reassurances EU green policies are not being downgraded
Fears over a shift towards deregulation on eco policy could stall appointment of Karmenu Vella as environment commissionerMembers of European parliament have called on Jean-Claude Juncker to offer...
View ArticleSimple, sustainable and not 'superchef': the UK's first zero-waste restaurant
Silo in Brighton mills its own flour for bread, brews its own booze and recycles all food waste. The chef and founder explains why it dares to be differentVideo: How to combat food waste in a food...
View ArticleHow to combat food waste in a 'food desert' video
Brixton People's Kitchen's answer to the 18m tons of edible food wasted in Britain every year is to create a network of volunteer collectors and cooks to divert food about to be discarded by local...
View ArticleInnovations in mobile phone recycling: biomining to dissolving circuit boards
More than 1.8bn mobile phones were purchased in 2013 and only 3% will be recycled. Can emerging technologies boost these low rates?More than 1.8bn mobile phones were bought in 2013, but within just a...
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