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Repair and re-use on the Royal Mile

 

This photo is just one example of progress towards a low-carbon world, and we're collecting more as part of our #itshappening project. See the rest here.


Remade in Edinburgh is a community re-use and repair project that's gone from strength to strength since it secured crowd funding at our Pitch Pledge Party event .

From a newly-acquired HQ on the city's prestigious Royal Mile, Remade in Edinburgh runs free repair sessions for computers, furniture and textiles.

By helping people keep their stuff going for longer, the project brings down the emissions that come from making and shipping all those unnecessary replacements. They've even inspired a few spinoffs, including our own Remade Around the World project.

A safer school run in Bradford

 

This photo is just one example of progress towards a low-carbon world, and we're collecting more as part of our #itshappening project. See the rest here.


 

Getting around Bradford just got a bit easier, thanks to this new walking and cycling bridge..

The Manchester Road bridge connects communities either side of the busy dual carriageway and provides a new safe, direct and traffic free route to school for pupils of Newby Primary School.

Photo: Sustrans

 

IKEA is going 100% LED!

The world’s biggest home- furnishings retailer has announced plans to sell only LED lights by 2016 to help customers cut energy use and carbon emissions. To celebrate this great turning point, IKEA is giving each of its UK and IE employees a free LED light bulb!

Photo: IKEA Press

 

The low-carbon cottage at the end of the rainbow

"This is a photo of our triple-glazed house, with solar panels which help to run the pump in the bore-hole which supplies our water & runs our ground source heat pump (& the washing is drying outside in the sunshine!)"

Judith Witts, Argyle

 

Global news round up: 10/10/12 special

The Dutch energy meter arrives at Eindhoven TU

The Dutch energy meter arrives at Eindhoven TU

It's that time again! Ever since the Global Day of Doing two years ago, October 10th (aka 10/10) has been a special day for the 10:10 community. This year we're celebrating in style...

Matchmaking for lonely gloves

 

This photo is just one example of progress towards a low-carbon world, and we're collecting more as part of our #itshappening project. See the rest here.


"This photo is from our big Glove Love giveaway last year. At Do The Green Thing, we match up tons and tons of single gloves that have lost their partners and then we gave hundreds away last winter to spread some warmth and some anti-waste messaging in central London. We cant wait to go out and do it again this year!"

Do The Green Thing

Want to lend a helping hand to Glove Love? Read more here.

 

10/10/12: a day to celebrate!

The #itshappening photo gallery is now live and looking fantastic, with examples of carbon-cutting progress from sea ports in Morocco to TV studios in Birmingham and everything in between.

Ever wondered if we've got what it takes to get climate change sorted? Here's your answer.

And between being blown away by all your beautiful photos, we've been working on a little something of our own...

Sharing a lift, saving a lot

This is Kate from Norfolk, who's making huge savings by car-sharing with liftshare.com

Photo- liftshare

Reducing food waste with Foodcycle Islington!

"Each week FoodCycle empowers local communities to set up groups of volunteers to collect surplus produce locally and prepare nutritious meals in unused professional kitchen spaces. These delicious meals are then served to those in need in the community."

-Jason Doak, Foodcycle Islington Hub

 

South America's largest windfarm

 

The inauguration of the wind farm in Oaxaca, Mexico, the largest windfarm in South America.

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