Climate Friendly Food

THe SA project is signposting quality low carbon and renewable energy advice, information services & grants. CFF gets a mention. More info here

according to Hans Herren, co-Chair of IAASTD, and now President of the US Millennium Institute. He is a leading advocate of agroecology, a holistic farming model based on organic principles, where food is pr ...
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Action Aid's stance against making soil carbon a traded commodity is needed. CFF believes arable land must produce healthy food with high calorific output per acre, e.g. market gardening. Carbon markets = p ...
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CFF is pleased to announce that after a meeting in Manchester with stakeholders we are going to be piloting the CFF participatory certification scheme in the North West and London. The meeting gave the 16 stakeholders (and 10 giving their apologies) to give feedback and give ...
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Making food fair- free event Manchester Town Hall 9th February - with Monty Don, Tim Lang, Deborah Doane and Julie Brown. Info Kindling Trust. One to really look forward to.

We are currently overhauling the website and will have a google maps linked directory of low carbon growers. In addition we are developing a new gardeners, grower/retailer (perfect for box schemes & farm shops) and consumer food carbon accounting toolkits.

This timely piece of work by Tom Beeston of www.eatengland.org brings together UK specific research. Tom has kindly let us reproduce his data for the new grower/retailer carbon calculator we are deve ...
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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, b ...
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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 par ...
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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 fir ...
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