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Each year, British shops throw away around 1.4 million tonnes of food. Yet at least 10 million people in the UK live in poverty and have difficulty affording a healthy diet. FareShare is an organisation that believes the food waste and food poverty demonstrated in these statistics are two of the most urgent issues facing [...]
Concrete cows notwithstanding, Milton Keynes has always been a town with a commitment to the natural environment. When the vision for the new town was birthed in the 1960s, the plan was to make it a ‘forest city’, integrating the countryside into the urban landscape. The result was more than 4,500 acres of river valleys, [...]
For proof of how a strong sense of identity can benefit a place, look no further than the Forest of Bowland, 300 square miles of beautiful rural landscape in Lancashire and north Yorkshire. Six years ago, a survey found that even local tourism officers would describe the area as being ‘close to the Yorkshire Dales’ [...]
Every year hundreds of fruit trees go unpicked, on both public and private land, either because people don’t notice them, may not be physically able to harvest them or there is just too much fruit at once. Abundance is a project that counters this waste by picking the fruit and redistributing the surplus to the [...]
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