Thank you to all who were involved in and attended the Big Green Festival
While the Big Green Festival may be over for this year, the momentum we’ve built together doesn’t stop here. Across Uttlesford, inspiring ideas are already taking root – from community-led projects and behaviour changes at home, to new partnerships and local initiatives. The festival is just the beginning of what we can achieve when we […]
Uttlesford’s Rivers and Chalk Streams: Collaboration and Catchments
As part of the ongoing Big Green Festival, tomorrow night, 10th June, 6.15pm at Foakes Hall Great Dunmow, we will be celebrating Uttlesford’s rivers and chalk streams, achievements of sustained community action and the premiere of a new short film, by way of an introduction, click here. This event focuses on the district’s rivers and […]
A Great Start to the Big Green Festival
The first few days of events in the Big Green Festival have been a great success, including the kick off event, the nature walks, the community bike day, the community garden event. Despite the weather being somewhat variable, everyone has had a great time, picked up useful information, and engaged with the wider community. Click […]
Big Green Festival Launch Event
Friday 5 June, 6.15pm Uttlesford District Council Offices, London Road, Saffron Walden CB11 4ER The Uttlesford Big Green Festival kicks off with an exciting launch event! We will be celebrating all the community action that has has been happening on nature recovery and low carbon projects across the district. The session will blend storytelling with […]
National Emergency Briefing
The new film from the National Emergency Briefing – a public information initiative to ensure the UK is fully briefed on the climate and nature crisis – has now been released. Along with our screening of it as part of the Uttlesford Big Green Festival on the 11th June at the town hall, there is […]
Cost of Net Zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock – CCC
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has released a new report to complement its 2025 advice on the UK’s Seventh Carbon Budget. The independent, statutory body tested its cost and energy security conclusions against different scenarios. It found that the total additional cost of a single fossil fuel price spike of 2022 magnitude is likely to be as large as the total net additional cost of meeting the pathway to Net Zero across every year to 2050. In all scenarios, achieving […]
Sustainable Uttlesford’s “inspirational” first anniversary
Sustainable Uttlesford Celebrates “Inspirational” First Anniversary as Community Climate Projects Take Centre Stage Sustainable Uttlesford marked its first year of operation with a vibrant and high-energy celebration, bringing together local residents, environmental advocates, and funding partners to toast a year of landmark achievements. The event, which combined the organisation’s first AGM with a showcase of […]
Big News for Community Energy
In case you haven’t heard it on the news this morning, GB Energy has launched it’s Local Power Plan which is great news for our growing community energy groups here in Essex. This represents the biggest public investment in community energy the UK has ever made, backed by up to £1 billion through GB Energy […]
EU Bans Destruction of Unsold Clothes and Shoes
The European Union has banned the destruction of unsold clothes, a move aimed at tackling overproduction and making the fashion industry more sustainable. They also introduce a standardized format for businesses to disclose the volumes of unsold consumer goods they discard. On Monday, the European Commission introduced new rules prohibiting companies from destroying unsold textiles […]
An expedition to investigate the possible collapse of the ocean current that keeps UK warm in winter.
The AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) is a current in the Atlantic that transports heat from the tropics up to the UK and Western Europe. The amount of heat energy being moved is frankly unimaginable – in a Channel 4 article on this topic they equated it to more then a million power stations worth […]