Carbon Neutral Cornwall Hive Blog

Chris 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

Bryony 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

Tessa 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

Kevin 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.

Energy equality, peer to peer community electricity trading

Luci Isaacson's research and reading academic tests and trials, over six years, helped to shape the Climate Vision ten pledges.

Make a difference - make a pledge or two

Dr 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.

Energy independent sustainable farming

Like lots of people Cllr Rob Nolan enjoyed seeing the wildflowers during lock-down and knowing that they are benefiting bees and other pollinators. Rob writes about wildlife verges which is one of the ways Cornwall Council is doing things differently and better to benefit our environment.

To mow or to grow - getting verges buzzing again

Lillian Harrison, an energy and transport infrastructure planning consultant, has set up a hedgehog corner in her garden, with a hedgehog cam for catching visitors to the impromptu drinking area:

Gardening for wildlife - nature needs our help too

Carolyn Cadman, Chief Executive of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust writes about how nature based solutions can help us to build back better.

Building back better with nature based solutions

Colin Hastings, author of the Carbon Buddy Project, used his background as an organisational psychologist and experience, to create the Carbon Buddy Manual a step by step guide to help work out what practical steps people can take to reduce their carbon footprint:

Who are the climate emergency key workers? You are!