Hello! Welcome to Carbon Copy's 'Copy This' - the podcast throwing the spotlight onto big thinking, local climate action. When was the last time you tried to get your mobile phone or laptop repaired? Chances are that it was impossible but all too easy to buy a replacement instead. This year, the weight of electronic waste produced globally will equal that of the Great Wall of China because repair is so difficult and obsolescence is built into many electronic goods, by design. But how is repairing and reuse even possible when the throwaway culture is so deeply rooted in our economy? The Fixing Factory is a new project with a fresh approach that not only makes repair and reuse a reality, it’s also applying lateral thinking so electronic ‘waste’ can benefit local communities in as many ways as possible. In this episode, Fiona Dear of The Restart Project and Emma Beal of West London Waste Authority describe The Fixing Factory’s drive to not only give broken laptops a new lease of life, but to use them to tackle digital inequality, train the fixers of the future, provide training and employment opportunities, as well as create a project blueprint that could be replicated around the UK.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello! The longest non-stop relay ever attempted is starting in October 2022, over 7200km from Glasgow in Scotland to Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt, in the name of climate action. Community leaders, school children and neighbours will pass a relay baton hand-to-hand across 18 countries and show the world what we can achieve if we work together. An extraordinary challenge, requiring extraordinary effort, to achieve extraordinary change.Listen to Danny Bent, cofounder of The World Relay, about what we hope to accomplish and how you can join in – either by running or by putting your local climate action initiative on the map! What better way to represent the unity and strength we wish to see from today's leaders than an inclusive relay linking together thousands of inspiring climate action projects? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello! Welcome to Carbon Copy's 'Copy This' - the podcast throwing the spotlight on big thinking local climate action. In this episode, the inspiration is provided by Energy Garden, a co-operative which has helped over 130 communities create gardens at overground railway stations across London. Not only has this re-connected residents with nature and food growing, increasing local pride in the process, it’s also improved the wellbeing of passengers plus delivered a whole range of community benefits valued at an estimated £11.35 of social return for every £1 spent. Join Agamemnon Otero, CEO of Energy Garden, and Charlotte Whitfield, Customer Service Director for Arriva Rail London, to discover how they’ve grown community energy and their keys to success, including how they’ve utilised solar power as an income generator to fund this innovative work.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello! This week we’re off to Hull to discover how the Living With Water partnership is working with the community to build a “blue green city of the future.”We’re joined by two key members of the partnership’s team - Lee Pitcher and Andrew Barron - who share insights into the challenges and triumphs of flood mitigation and adaptation in one of the UK’s most at-risk areas.Listen in to hear how personal experiences of homelessness and the destruction that flooding can bring, led to our speakers' shared passion for this project. Learn how the people of Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire are collaborating and co-creating to turn the threat of too much water into an opportunity to improve and develop green spaces within the area. Be inspired by a project which spans generations and focuses on working with nature, rather than fighting it. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello! Welcome to the first episode of Copy This where we travel to Scotland to learn how a community raised £millions to buy 5,000 acres of local land for a new nature reserve.In this episode, hosts Ric Casale and Amanda Carpenter are reunited, having last met at COP26, moments after Ric had completed a gruelling 500-mile, 26-day walk from London.During that journey, Ric had the opportunity to meet our podcast guests, Jenny Barlow and Mairi Telford Jammeh, of the Tarras Valley Nature Reserve in Langholm.We hear about the incredible passion this small community has for protecting wildlife and restoring the area to its natural state. About how an unexpected opportunity to purchase a large swathe of land for the nature reserve sparked a fundraising mission that ignited people not only across Scotland, but globally as well. We learn about some of the characters and relationships that made it possible to raise the £millions needed – and about the plans to raise more and continue to grow the protected area.Listen now, to discover the power that people can have when they come together to achieve an impossible dream. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We’re pleased to announce Copy This, the new podcast from climate charity Carbon Copy. Launching March 10, in this series we’ll hear from the “doers” who prove what’s possible when you think big, locally. In this short trailer host Ric Casale is joined by team mate Izzy Sparrow to delve into what to expect from the rest of the series. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.