Carbon Copy Podcast

Whether your concern is the environment, health or road safety; the severe congestion that plagues the streets around UK primary schools is something we could all do without.   In this episode of the Carbon Copy Podcast, released during National Walking Month, we meet James Lucas, a devoted father and keen cyclist from Wymondham in South Norfolk, who has worked with others at his children’s school to implement a School Street initiative – closing the road outside the school to most motorised vehicles twice a day during term time. We also hear from Cara Fahy, Headteacher at Robert Kett Primary School, Jeremy Wiggin of Norfolk County Council and David Burt from Sustrans to learn more about the successes and challenges of implementing a School Street.  Listen now to Taking To The Street, to hear how this collaborative initiative is benefitting the lives of children, parents and the wider school community. --------------------------------------------- Show Notes To find out more about Sustrans School Streets, check out the story page on Carbon Copy: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives/sustrans-school-streets Learn more about what Sustrans do: https://www.sustrans.org.uk/ Learn more about climate action in South Norfolk: https://carboncopy.eco/local-climate-action/south-norfolk  Find more tips and information about active travel on Carbon Copy’s community page, here: https://carboncopy.eco/community/walk-and-cycle  Read about what Norfolk County Council is doing to address climate change: https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/climate 

The Carbon Copy Podcast shares stories to move, motivate and inspire more big-thinking local action across the UK. We’ve covered a lot of ground with the first three episodes of the season. From the front line of the climate crisis on the Norfolk coast, to citizens across the UK fighting to protect nature, to dedicated businesses, community organisations and individuals in Sleaford tackling plastic waste.  In this short trailer, we take a look at what is coming up over the next few weeks on the pod. 

Nature connects us all, so its decline and destruction should be a concern for us all. In 2023 WWF, RSPB and National Trust published the People’s Plan for Nature, a document written in collaboration with a citizen’s assembly of 103 members representative of the British public, and with input from thousands more people across the UK. In this episode, released almost exactly a year after the People’s Plan for Nature was published, we speak to WWF’s Head of Community Engagement Campaigns, Kat Machin, about the thinking behind this unique collaboration, and meet five members of The People’s Assembly for Nature, as they are known, to hear how participating has impacted them and their lives.  Listen to Bigger Than All Of Us to discover how nature, and a desire to protect the natural environment here in the UK, has brought our guests together and created bonds that will last a lifetime. --------------------------------------Show Notes Find out more about actions you can take locally to support nature and wildlife, check out ideas via Carbon Copy here: https://carboncopy.eco/community Explore initiatives shared with Carbon Copy that relate to protecting and restoring nature: https://carboncopy.eco/action-area/nature Learn more about what the People’s Assembly members did, and how this led to the published plan: https://peoplesplanfornature.org/peoples-assembly-nature Find out more about the coverage of the plan, and events that have taken place since the it was published: https://peoplesplanfornature.org/news  Read about the Innovation Festival that Peter participated in: https://www.water.org.uk/news-views-publications/views/innovation-festival-2023-huge-success Learn about The Big One, the event that Rebecca spoke at: https://extinctionrebellion.uk/the-big-one/   

In late 2023, Kevin Jordan’s dream retirement home by the sea was demolished by the local council. Bought only 14-years prior, it was deemed unsafe and at risk from coastal erosion.  In this, the first episode of the Carbon Copy Podcast series 3, we explore the link between Kevin’s story and the dangerous human-made heating of our planet.   Join Host Isabelle Sparrow, Save Hemsby Coastline campaigners Kevin and Simon, and Professor Ed Hawkins of the University of Reading’s Centre for Atmospheric Science to see why things need to change, quickly, and what could happen if we continue to cross the lines in the sand. ***Show NotesDownload your local warming stripes, search for your area via the map or use the dropdown on this page: https://carboncopy.eco/local-climate-action  Find out more about national and international warming stripes: https://showyourstripes.info/   Find out more about Simon and Kevin’s campaign: https://savehemsbycoastline.org.uk/  Read Save Hemsby Coastline’s letter to 10 Downing Street: https://savehemsbycoastline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Petition-covering-letter.pdf  Find out more about coastal protection campaigns in East Anglia: https://www.coasteast.org.uk/ 

Launching March 20, series 3 of the Carbon Copy Podcast brings powerful, inspiring and relatable stories about people around the UK fighting to protect their communities from the impacts of climate breakdown. Listen to a new episode every fortnight. 

In this final audiobook episode, we adopt a new perspective and go on to explore the common ground that connects people. We discover the power and appeal of working together locally to protect us from climate breakdown and defend nature. Communities are seen in another light, as both beneficiaries and guardians of common natural resources – from clean rivers to clean air.We open the door to over a thousand inspiring, real-world examples of collective local action from all four corners of the UK and invite you to step in by visiting carboncopy.ecoAdapted from the original book, Civic Revolution, and narrated by its author, Ric Casale. If you enjoy listening to the Carbon Copy Podcast, please send a link to someone you think would like it and, if you haven’t already, please click ‘Follow this podcast’ wherever you listen.

In episode two of Civic Revolution, we sift for clues in our past that shape the future. Throughout our history, we have been converting energy from one form to another and changing the world around us in remarkable new ways. We have lived by the stories we are told, and reshape the world by the new stories we tell.Taken together, we see how these clues point towards a civic revolution where we have the opportunity to create something better and mend the links between people and place that have been broken.Adapted from the original book, Civic Revolution, and narrated by its author, Ric Casale.Discover a national collection of inspiring stories from across the UK, told by people of all ages and backgrounds. Find out more by visiting carboncopy.eco If you enjoy listening to the Carbon Copy Podcast, please send a link to someone you think would like it and, if you haven’t already, please click ‘Follow this podcast’ wherever you listen.

In this audiobook episode, we look at the predicament of humankind: the quest for endless economic expansion in a world of finite resources and planetary boundaries. We don’t need to look far to see the broken links between people and places, past and present, imagination and reality. We dispel some of the myths that are putting us in jeopardy, rediscovering the power we have to tell different stories that can reinvent the places where we live and lead to a better future.Adapted from the original book, Civic Revolution, and narrated by its author, Ric Casale. Discover a national collection of inspiring stories from across the UK, told by people of all ages and backgrounds. Find out more by visiting carboncopy.eco If you enjoy listening to the Carbon Copy Podcast, please send a link to someone you think would like it and, if you haven’t already, please click ‘Follow this podcast’ wherever you listen.