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In the business and charity/community sector there has been a mismatch in what one can offer the other. Over 55% of both sectors don’t really understand how they can help each other. In a recent survey carried out by Carillion, representatives from businesses and community/charity groups came together to exchange ideas on how they could form better working relationships. From skill based volunteering, to a equal partnership for both sectors, Carillion's Future of Community Engagement Survey and roundtable, highlights social sustainability.
Learn more about the report here: https://www.carillionplc.com/news-and-media/research-reveals-evolution-of-community-and-business-collaboration/
The U.K. has managed to slash its use of single use plastic bags by a massive 80%! So we're having bags of fun this week with Ben Champion, talking (and singing) about bags-for-life.
WDC Solar, founded by NBA-player-turned-entrepreneur Mark Davis, is one of the nation’s first African American-owned solar panel installation companies. In addition to serving paying clients, WDC Solar installs solar panels in low-income communities at no cost to residents and trains young men and women—often those who are unemployed or under employed —in this type of skilled labor. Learn more in this 2-minute story: Diversity in Solar
Find out more here: http://www.wdcsolar.com
Ahoy hoy! We're back with more news from our big green planet and our deep blue sea! This week we've looked at new on street charging technologies, alternative cargo shipping methods, the world largest renewable energy power plants around the world, jeans made out of plastic and jars of fresh air! What a jam packed week it's been!
With Thanks to
Oxford City Council
TransOceanic Wind Transport
Grayhound Lugger
World Bank
Climate Investment Fund/World Bank and Africa Development Bank
Dong
AethAer
Vitality Air
G Star Raw
Get advice from some of the UK's best professional gardeners in this ongoing series from the National Trust. This month, learn about topiary from Philip Whaites, Head Gardener at Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire.
Find out more about gardening from the National Trust at:
https:www.nationaltrust.org.uk/gardens
Or discover more about Wimpole at
https:www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wimpole-estate
Music: Summer by Moby
Top National Trust chef Clive Goudercourt shows how to make a tasty winter orange and ginger cake as served in National Trust restaurants across the UK. Clive uses seasonal ingredients and cooks in the 18th century kitchen at Florence Court, in Northern Ireland.
For recipes and more about food from the National Trust go to https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/food
On Friday 4 Dec 2015 Climate-KIC celebrated Europe’s climate innovation champions building a zero carbon economy at COP21. The Daily Planet was there in central Paris and brings you this report with the VIPs, the innovators and the amazing atmosphere in the stunning Grand Palais. Find out more about the 'volocopter' built by Climate-KIC start-up E-volo — also knowns as the 'Tesla of helicopters' — and a few other climate champions.
More from the Daily Planet: http://www.climate-kic.org/daily-planet
A key issue running through the COP negotiations is Finance, who will provide it, will it be sufficient and will it continue beyond 2020. Here, experts and Islands talk about the opportunity for ocean finance and investment and its importance.
Beatboxer Shlomo performs as part of ArtCOP21 launch at St Pancras.
ArtCOP21 is running consecutively to the Paris Climate Talks, and aims to connect people with the climate change crisis through art, music and theatre.
Find out more about the Paris Climate Talks: http://www.goodenergy.co.uk/paris-climate-talks
Find out more about ArtCOP21: http://www.artcop21.com/
A packed event on Thursday brought underwater expedition photographers, NGOs and countries that rely on reefs for tourism and fish together.
Earth can you hear us?
ArtCOP21 is running consecutively to the Paris Climate Talks, and aims to connect people with the climate change crisis through art, music and theatre.
At the launch event at St Pancras station, Radio One DJ Gemma Cairney presents this performance of Marshallese poet, writer, performance artist and journalist Kathy Jetnil-Kiljiner. 'Dear Matafele Peinem' is a poem she wrote for her daughter inspired by the effects of climate change.
Find out more head to: www.artcop21.com
Find out more about the Paris Climate Talks: http://www.goodenergy.co.uk/paris-climate-talks
Climate change mitigation remains essential for our work to build a safe and sustainable future. But the greenhouse gases that have accumulated in the atmosphere over the past century and a half have already set changes in motion. Infrastructure and communities around the world urgently need to adapt to a climate characterised by more frequent and more severe storms, droughts and floods. DNV GL has been developing tools to help both businesses and communities adapt to this new reality
On the eve of the official opening of COP21, government representatives and civil society attended in Paris Because the Ocean, a high-level event at the Climate-Ocean Tara Pavilion organized by the Global Ocean Commission in partnership with the Chilean Foreign Affairs Ministry, the French Ministry of Ecology, the Institute on Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, and Tara Expeditions.
* Video courtesy of Ocean Unite www.oceanunite.org
Fairtrade producer Melesia Garcia Roman of the Norandino Coffee Cooperative in Peru speaks about how climate change has affected her life and what she is doing about it.
Find out more at fairtrade.net/climate-change.html
Beautiful gardens at Mount Stewart are under threat. This film made by Green.TV for the National Trust shows how the Trust is planning for the future of this extraordinary garden on the edge of Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland which is at risk due to climate change and the rising lough levels. For the full report go to https:www.nationaltrust.org.uk/shiftingshores
The winter storms of 2013/14 put access to Godrevy beach in Cornwall at risk. This film by Green.TV for the Trust explores new ways to adapt to the shifting shoreline to ensure it can still be enjoyed for generations to come. For the full report go to https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/living-with-change-our-shifting-shores
This short is for the climate confused. In this video we'll be myth-busting the most common statements made against the validity of climate change.
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