Climate Friendly Food

The team at Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) have been very busy over the past few years creating two major reports under the project Zero Carbon Britain.

Achieving a society that is carbon neutral is, CAT argue, bo ...
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Farming Futures is an organisation to help farmers prepare for the impacts of climate change, and realise potential opportunities to reduce costs through energy savings and/or renewable generation.

A particularly good part ...
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Wiltshire is often thought of as a wealthy rural area that is almost Home counties, but not quite. Considered conservative by nature and not the hotbed of radical ideas - that happens in Cornwall and west Wales, doesn't it?

Not the case with Westmill Wind Farm. The firs ...
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Making Local Food Work have just released a report titled Local food and climate change - the role of community food enterprises.

The aim of the report is to look at what practices local food enterpr ...
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Ask most farmers or growers what they think are the biggest sources of carbon emissions on a farm are and you will probably get a range of answers including diesel, other fossil fuels, plastics and cows.

The Cli ...
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Carbon is undoubtedly the most universal and important global language and now currency. Carbon emissions are an enormous issue that affect every person on the planet, yet the sources of these emissions are highly inequitable.

Those of us in industrialised countries suc ...
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The weekend of January 23rd and 24th saw Climate Friendly Food run its first weekend course in market gardening. The course was a pilot of an AQA Unit Award we are awaiting to be scrutinised by the exam body.

The course was well received as we started by looking at ...
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A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting Graham Harvey for coffee in Bristol. Graham is a journalist, author of several books (the latest called The Carbon Fields), organiser of the "Alternative Oxford Farming Conference" and perhaps most famously agricult ...
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Schumacher College is a highly inspiring place to study and be. Set on the beautiful Dartington Estate near Totnes in south Devon, it places great importance on the quality of its learning environment, food and teachers. Leading thinkers from around the world regularly teach a ...
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I've been away from home for 9 days, having attended the Organic Producer's Conference at Harper Adams in Shropshire. Having left the Isles of Scilly with a cold NE wind, I was quite surprised to learn that we were virtually the only place in the entire country not to have any ...
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