Ben Gill

Young people finding the gaps in climate strategy, and suggesting new solutions

Back in September, we started an initiative to work with Young Leaders to systems-map all UK local government climate strategies into a single networked database. While mapping all strategies has proven to be over-optimistic… with nearly 50 mapped and connected we’re already learning a lot! On the central page you can see all the plans...

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Ben Gill
Greenwich Autumn

What are the impacts of an ‘unseasonably’ warm Autumn?

As we all basked in September and early October’s ‘unseasonably’ warm weather, a term that no longer holds any meaning, I began to wonder what are the impacts of a warm Autumn. We are all mostly familiar with the problems of an early spring; trees and plants starting to grow and blossoming early before a late...

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Ben Gill
First-Network-Node

Network Node, Helpdesk, and more…

Now that we’ve switched over to our new tech stack, we’re fully focused on developing the platform functionality to enhance collaboration in the achievement of Shared Outcomes, as well as enabling you to get the most out of the platform. To that end, we have developed a new fundamental piece of the OnePlanet platform architecture:...

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Ben Gill
local government climate action plan ecosystem

An Ecosystem of Local Government Climate Action

The vast majority of Local Governments have declared a climate emergency and developed, or are in the process of developing, a Climate Strategy. While every strategy will need to respond to the local context and the specifics of the Local Government itself (Unitary, Two Tier etc), there will nonetheless be a huge amount of commonality...

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Ben Gill

Connected Places Catapult ‘Nations Pledge, Cities Deliver’

Connected Places Catapult (CPC) describes itself as the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport and places. An organisation which receives a core grant from the UK government but is independent, CPC sees climate change as one of the biggest innovation drivers of our time – and is supporting new approaches to progress here across a...

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Ben Gill

Commonplace Rethink Glasgow Heatmap Event at #ATPatCOP

On Wednesday 10th November, Mike Saunders CEO of Commonplace and Abi L.Glen from OnePlanet (and Lateral North & ATP) came together to host an event at After The Pandemic, to showcase the collaborative project we have been working on together.  “We aim to be the (Common)place that people congregate to collaborate with their community and...

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