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Cardiff One Planet Living festival

admin — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:34:40 +0000

The first Cardiff One Planet City Festival brings together a wide range of events across Cardiff to celebrate what people, active networks and projects in Cardiff are doing to live smart, sustainable, 21st Century lifestyles.

There will be talks, walks, displays, learning days, workshops, activities, markets, films, music, drama and more.

On Saturday 30th June 2012 One Planet Living at City Hall will mark the launch of the Cardiff One Planet City Festival.

One Planet Living is a FREE event for all the family and will include a wide range of interactive activities and family friendly fun including – street entertainers, solar powered live music, low carbon cook-offs, local food produce, cycling workshops, face painting, uni-cycling, and lots more!

Cardiff One Planet Living festival

Herefordshire Spring Greens Fair

admin — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:30:04 +0000

The Herefordshire Spring Greens Fair took place on 5-6 May, celebrating sustainability in all its forms. A major part of the Fair was the Sustainable and Resilient Herefordshire (SURE) One Planet Living conference which aimed to get views and ideas for a ‘Plan B’ for the Local Development Framework.

The Medical City Oman

admin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:03:48 +0000

The master plan of The Medical City in Salalah, Oman has been completed by Atkins.

This project, being undertaken by the Apex Medical Group, represents the largest private healthcare infrastructure development opportunity in Oman. The Medical City is poised to become the centerpiece of international healthcare tourism, whilst also benefitting the local community.

The 800,000sqm complex, with a built up area of 500,000 sq meters, will provide traditional hospital facilities along with a high end hotel, spa, educational and training facilities for doctors and nurses and a wellbeing centre, alongside accommodation, commercial and service facilities for visitors and residents.

The sustainability goals for The Medical City have been drawn from the ‘One Planet Living’ program, which is internationally recognized as a framework for addressing sustainability in development projects.
The ‘One Planet Living’ goals are to achieve or secure:
• Carbon reduction
• Waste reduction
• Sustainable transport
• Local and sustainable materials

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Stride Treglown architects

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:25:43 +0000

Award-winning architects Stride Treglown have adopted the One Planet Living model to enable them to continually evaluate key areas of their business, design and service, in support of a sustainable future.

They measure gas, electricity, water and paper consumption at all their offices and staff travel. As a business, they have a commitment to reducing their carbon footprint by 10% within the next year and an ongoing objective to achieve further reductions in energy and materials consumption.

As a practice, Stride Treglown provide exemplar and award winning sustainable design across many sectors.

Stride Treglown website

University of Minnesota UMore Park

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:34:18 +0000

The University of Minnesota Outreach, Research and Education (UMore) Park is the University’s 5,000-acre property located 25 miles southeast of the Twin Cities in Dakota County.

A key element of the University of Minnesota’s UMore Park project is creating a sustainable community. The vision for UMore Park is for a sustainable, modern, University-founded community of 20,000 to 30,000 people developed over 25 to 30 years.

The University is working with BioRegional to come up with a sustainability plan for the 5,000-acre development. By using the One Planet Living framework, the result will be an efficient, well-planned built environment with lifestyle alternatives to achieve sustainable use of the resources on our planet.

Find out more:

UMore Park website
Rosemount Town Pages (newspaper)

Malmesbury and the Villages Community Area Partnership

admin — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:44:58 +0000

Malmesbury and the Villages Community Area Partnership, a voluntary group covering the 20 local council areas in and around Malmesbury, Wiltshire, UK, are working on several initiatives to reduce environmental impacts and improve environmental quality in the area.

MVCAP are also looking at their own operations and environmental impact. To become more sustainable are using the One Planet Living framework and have developed and are implementing a One Planet Action Plan.

The MVCAP One Planet Action Plan has been developed to help them to reduce the environmental impacts of their operations and to help them become more sustainable.

Initially they are targetting five of the ten One Planet Living principles – namely Zero Carbon, Zero Waste, Sustainable Transport, Health & Happiness, and Culture & Heritage.

Find out more at http://www.mvcap.org.uk/.

CNBC Responsible Business TV series

admin — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:51:35 +0000

One Planet Communities is the focus of the next episode of the Responsible Business Television series, broadcasting on CNBC around the world this weekend.

Tune into your region’s CNBC channel at the following times to see several of the ground-breaking projects showcased and an interview with BioRegional’s International Director, Pooran Desai OBE:

CNBC Asia

1st Broadcast: 30 October 17:30 SIN/HK Time

2nd Broadcast: 31 October 09:30 SIN/HK Time

CNBC Europe

1st Broadcast: 30 October 08:30 CET

2nd Broadcast: 30 October 13:30 CET

CNBC USA

Single Broadcast: 30 October 16:00 EST

If you miss the broadcast the film will go up on www.oneplanetcommunities.org early next week.

Sustainable Living Older Community

admin — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:23:08 +0000

Kingston University is leading this project, called Sustainable Living and the Older Community, which aims to stimulate interest in and raise awareness of climate change, sustainable development, and living practices, with older people. It recently published a booklet “A Guide to Sustainable Green Living” which includes a chapter devoted to One Planet Living and the ten principles of sustainability.

The booklet is not yet available for download, but for more information about the project visit: http://sustainablelivingandtheoldercommunity.co.uk/

London Food Link

admin — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:28:11 +0000

The One Planet Dining report is part of a programme of work by London Food Link to improve the sustainability of London’s food system.

Taking One Planet Living as its definition of sustainability, the report recognises that food accounts for around one third of our ecological footprint, and that unsustainably produced food represents an ever-greater environmental burden.

The report investigates the potential for greater use of sustainable food, and greater uptake of sustainable business practices by London’s food service sector. It provides a picture of current practices and attitudes to sustainability within the restaurant, hotel and catering sectors in London, and initial work to support improvements.

Find out more and download the report.

The Deanes School

admin — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:26:13 +0000

After seeing the One Planet Living display at the Prince of Wales’ Garden Party to Make a Difference, staff and pupils from the Deanes School in Essex decided that the One Planet Living principles would be an ideal way of communicating the school’s work on sustainability to prospective parents at their recent open day.

Parents were asked to make a pledge based on the One Planet Living principles. The principles fit into the school’s work on sustainability. They have organised eight days for Key Stage 3 pupils to explore sustainability issues and take part in creating a sustainable school.

For more information, vodcasts and photos of their work, visit http://www.deanesschool.co.uk/page/?title=Focus+Friday&pid=89