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

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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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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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 su ...
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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 a ...
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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 agricul ...
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