London

Greener Festivals - London

Greener Festivals want to champion environmentally friendly music festivals and promote sustainable events by using music and music events to inspire and encourage people to work towards a low energy future and more sustainable lifestyles.

ASSA - London

This group aims to enhance the quality of life for the residents of their area and ensure that future generations can benefit from the best possible environment, by increasing domestic energy efficiency, encouraging behavioural change and using local low-carbon energy generation.

The Carbon Conversation Project - London

The aim of this project is to challenge personal and collective denial and evasion about climate change through changing the discourse of the community. The Environment Council’s Carbon Café and Climate Action Groups will create a space where people can come together and talk about reducing carbon emissions, focusing on helping people understand and commit to CO2 reduction.

CRAG - Carbon Rationing Action Groups (also comprising Carbon Reduction Action Groups) - London

Carbon Rationing Action Groups aim to take action personally but collectively. Like a diet club for the carbon-heavy, CRAGs are support groups for people trying to cut down on their carbon footprint. Members survey their present carbon footprints and use CRAG tools to map their own steady and achievable carbon descent path.

Get on the Greenside - London

Get on the Greenside is a neighbourhood recycling project to improve the recycling services provided to residents living in high-density social housing estates. The project works to raise awareness and increase community involvement in local reuse and recycling initiatives.

Brixton Green - London

The Brixton Green group aims to initiate, support and act as a catalyst for sustainable development in Brixton. They want to incorporate energy saving, water conservation and recycling facilities into the community, as well as developing initiatives such as community gardening and a one-stop shop for environmental advice.

Living Buildings - Local Links (LiLi) - Kentish Town

A small charity in Kentish Town who would like to further develop their practical programmes, using young people as climate change champions. Their wide range of techniques for CO2 reduction includes an innovative green rooftops in urban spaces programme.

Back 2 Earth - Hackney

Back 2 Earth is based at Hackney City Farm and aims to be a community resource and environmental improvement centre, promoting healthy living and implementing its 60 ideas for carbon reduction which include environmental workshops, courses and rainwater collection and reuse.

Animals’ Lawsuit Project - London

A London community group with plans to use school children as ambassadors for sustainability - combining educational methods such as storytelling to educate on CO2 , with practical solutions including growing food on school sites and micro-generating electricity and hot water.

Sustainable Campus - KCL & LSE - London

This group aims to identify and close the gaps between universities and their surrounding neighbourhoods on envrionmental issues, by developing a series of campaigns and events and by developing interventions such as planting, composting and green roofing.

C-Change continues at Venturer Camp 2008 – London

Just a few of C-Change’s aims are to host a national youth camp that uses only sustainable and renewable energy sources and deliver regional workshops on how to fund sustainable energy camping.

Sidmouth Carbon Challenge - London

Global Action Plan and Sidmouth College secondary school aim to reduce carbon emissions through a community-wide approach focused around the school. They will be trained to measure their school’s environmental performance and to take positive action through practical changes such as installing composting devices.

Community Transport Toolkit

- London
The Community Transport Toolkit aims to reduce CO2 emissions through better use of public transport by making information usable and clear and spare transport capacity visible, to highlight lift sharing opportunities within the community.

The 40% Hyde Farm Household - London

Hyde Farm Climate Action Network is a proactive group of residents from the Hyde Farm estate in Balham who aim to extend their existing practical approaches to reducing CO2 to their wider community of 1,600 homes. Plans include a sustainability centre, light bulb libraries and draught proofing workshops.

Front Gardens - London

The aim of this initiative is to “re-green” London’s front gardens, enhancing the aesthetics of the average London street and community bonds regarding environment as well as reducing CO2 emissions through the promotion of low emission vehicles.

Victoria Park Residents and Traders - London

This urban community association from Hackney plans to encourage school children to take the lead in changing the behaviour within the community and to help champion electricity unit monitors, a ban on plastic bags and local shop card among other initiatives.

99 months - London

Social enterprise ‘Three Trees Don’t Make a Forest’ plan to use their business expertise and connections to conduct a powerful on and offline outreach programme to engage the ‘paper and pulp’ design community in cutting edge solutions to tackle climate change.

Do The Green Thing - London

Do The Green Thing’s aim is to create people-powered sustainability - getting people to join the site and carry out a green action for collective benefit is just one of their six ideas to reduce carbon emissions.

Designers Down the Dump - London

Designers Down the Dump challenges people to add functional and aesthetic value to discarded objects through reuse, refurbishment and upcycling by working with the local community, designers and the online community. The project aims to reduce CO2 emissions directly by cutting landfill, reducing waste processing and transportation, and creating refurbished, redesigned and upcycled products as CO2 efficient alternatives to new products made from virgin materials.

Julie’s Bicycle - London

Julie’s Bicycle aims to reduce CO2 emissions from the creative music community and to promote responsible energy management by running a programme of audits, seminars, events and campaigns underpinned by CO2 measurement.

One World UK - London

A social enterprise group focused on using innovative media solutions to bring people together in a virtual world to share CO2 cutting learnings. A key strand of their plan is to set up virtual round table sessions on climate change, hosted on social network site Second Life.