Carbon Neutral Cornwall Hive Blog
Welcome to the Hive Blog
The Hive is about helping everyone to make a difference and our guest Bloggers will be writing about things they are passionate about and would like to share.
Do you have a story you would like to share on the Carbon Neutral Cornwall Blog?
If you are part of a community group striving to tackle climate change, or a climate expert and would like to share your own story that can help inspire other people to get involved, we'd love to hear from you.
Please get in touch climatechange@cornwall.gov.uk
Welcome to the Hive Blog
The Hive is about helping everyone to make a difference and our guest Bloggers will be writing about things they are passionate about and would like to share.
Do you have a story you would like to share on the Carbon Neutral Cornwall Blog?
If you are part of a community group striving to tackle climate change, or a climate expert and would like to share your own story that can help inspire other people to get involved, we'd love to hear from you.
Please get in touch climatechange@cornwall.gov.uk
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Natallia Paliakova
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Email this linkHaving started scuba diving as a holiday activity in exotic diving destinations, Natallia wanted to do something about the litter and lost fishing gear blighting our beautiful and diverse ocean. She now helps run 'Fathoms Free' organising scuba diving ocean clean up events around Cornwall's coastline.
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Sue Scott
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Email this linkSue Scott writes about the unusual and special marine residents of the Fal and Helford Estuary's sheltered inlets and bays.
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Simon Miles
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Email this linkHaving studied and practised Forest Gardening in detail, Simon Miles is convinced that every community should have a Community Forest Garden. Simon writes about forest gardens and the benefits of community gardening to people's health and well being, learning, and neighbourhoods.
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Chris Bird
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Email this linkChris Bird is a writer and freelance journalist, smallholder and Extinction Rebellion activist. He is the author of ‘Local Sustainable Homes’.
Why we need low impact homes to help mitigate climate change
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Bryony Stokes and Claire Wallerstein
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Email this linkBryony Stokes and Claire Wallerstein are producing Cornwall’s Climate Stories – a series of films looking at every aspect of how climate change will affect our lives.
Communicating climate change reality and optimism, a difficult but essential balancing act
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Tessa Kingsley
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Email this linkTessa is a a teacher, parish councillor and Project Manager at Climate Change Risk Management Ltd, a consultancy offering climate change advice to organisations around the world.
Tess writes about helping teachers and schools to help their students make informed environmental decisions and the schools Eco Conference.
Equipping teachers with tools to help them talk to pupils about climate change
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Kevin Smith
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Email this linkKevin Smith is the Director of the Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network, also known as WREN. He writes about WREN's innovative energy equality project that could share the benefits of rooftop solar electricity through a per-to-peer trading system.
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Bennamann local clean energy revolution
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Email this link24 Aug 2020The video below explains how Bennamann are unlocking the power of bio-methane to deliver a local clean energy revolution, right here in Cornwall
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Luci Isaacson
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Email this link04 Aug 2020Luci Isaacson's research and reading academic tests and trials, over six years, helped to shape the Climate Vision ten pledges.
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Dr Tim Fox
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Email this link30 Jul 2020Dr Tim Fox has lived and worked all over the world but believes the most exciting initiatives are right here, where he was born, in Cornwall. Tim writes about one of those exciting initiatives that is set to bring about a local clean energy revolution.
Online event: 26 September
Live Projects
Localism climate change workshops
Live Projects
Useful Links
- WWF Carbon footprint calculator
- The Eden Project - Make the change pledges
- Cornwall Council Climate Change web pages
- WWF - Things you can do
- BBC Food Calculator
- Woodland Trust - Tree planting advice
- Forest for Cornwall
- Cornwall Council information and grants advice service
- Bennamann - delivering a local clean energy revollution