This year’s Glastonbury Festival will feature a pavilion made of mushroom-derived mycelium. Designed by Simon Carroll of Temple Design, the 26-metre-long structure “will aim to encourage the use of mycelium across multiple sectors,” according to Design Week. The structure will be be 95% mycelium, with timber supports, bioplastics made from agar, and compostable gelatine glue. Full story here

The Design Museum is running its Design Your Way to Net Zero workshop again on October 17. The workshop is facilitated by URGE’s Alexie Sommer and is a CPD-certified decarbonisation course for small and medium-sized businesses, “designed to demystify and support you to start implementing carbon reduction actions immediately”. Details here

The UN Environment Programme has published a Beat Plastic Pollution Practical Guide with advice with how to tackle the problem aimed at various sectors, as well as background information on the scale of the problem and how plastic pollution affects us. Download it here

As part of the EU’s Green Week, there will be a free webinar on Skills for Clear Communication of Sustainability on the 7th of June from 12.00 to 13.30 CEST. “During the webinar, representatives from five Horizon 2020 projects, including GreenSCENT, Rethink Action, Firelogue, Mediaverse, and I-CHANGE, will showcase practical demonstrations of how sustainability can be effectively communicated through various mediums such as videos, images, written content, and other forms of communication, tailored to different target audiences”. A follow-up document will list a set of guidelines. Details here

Absolut vodka has launched a three-month trial of the first commercially available ‘paper’ spirits bottles in the UK. The bottles will be available in 22 Tesco stores across Greater Manchester over the summer. Absolute claims they are eight times lighter than glass bottles, meaning transport-related emissions can be reduced. However the ‘paper’ bottles do contain 43% plastic, according to Business Green. Story here

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