The Optimistic Foundation CIC in London, has just over two weeks left of their Crowdfunder. What if every street was a people-powered Power Station, tackling climate and economic crises and building community resilience and wealth? This is currently just one street in Walthamstow, London, aiming to build out nationally beyond their neighbourhood, by creating a membership site to help and inspire other streets to take action, building people power - challenging despondency and despair with hope and action. Watch their latest film Here!

We Are Possible are on a mission to speed up climate activism; read their success stories of collective action in 2023!

It’s a reminder that January is a great time to set your intentions for 2024, so, if you want to do more for the climate this year, there is no better time than right now ... from repairing your clothes to reducing your waste, or lobbying your MP to inspiring your colleagues to take action with you, there are loads of ways we can all make a difference in the fight against the climate crisis this year.  

We Are Possible have a questionnaire to get you started!

Extinction Rebellion are escalating their Community Assemblies Plan.

A community assembly is local people hearing, deliberating and deciding about local issues that affect community lives every day.

If you want to form your own, read their step by step guide here, or join one of the 20 groups already operating across the country

The shocking truth behind the stuff you throw away… watch Oliver Franklin-Wallis – the author of Wasteland over at Bright Ideas Gathering

He advocates for a more holistic approach to our consumption and waste management at both an individual and societal level.

His key takeaways are to support:

  • The end of greenwashing - stop deceptive practices or marketing that gives a false impression of environmental friendliness.

  • To buy less, and buy better - encouraging a shift in consumer behavior towards purchasing fewer items, but choosing higher quality and more sustainable products.

  • To fix recycling - recognizing the challenges and inefficiencies in current recycling systems and proposing solutions or improvements to make recycling more effective.

  • To end waste injustice  - by addressing disparities and injustices related to waste management predominantly from the global north to affecting marginalized communities and the environments of the global south.

Dezeen's editorial director Max Fraser predicts a rise in material intelligence for 2024  

‘The pace of development in material innovation continues, in particular those made from supposedly sustainable resources as well as those salvaged from waste streams, such as fabrics made from bacterial fermentation and handcrafted biotextiles.

The appetite to use such creations in projects will increase in 2024 as designers strive to create products with greater material sensitivity. This goes hand-in-hand with a drive to lower the impact of our consumption on planetary systems as we continue to sharpen our focus on the climate crisis.’ Read the full article here.

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