Niamh James

OnePlanet celebrates opening of the Building Bridges Hub

This month, Councillor Donna Stimson, Cabinet Member for Climate Action and Sustainability at Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, opened the doors to the Building Bridge Hub. The exciting initiative aims to bring all of the community together to build solutions for a sustainable future. The Hub was marked officially open through the ring of...

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Niamh James

Should we all become ‘Preppers’?

By Pooran Desai, Founder OnePlanet  ‘We can regard this as the most extreme [weather] event in European history’.  These are the words of climatologist Maximiliano Herrera, speaking of the heat wave which hit Europe over the New Year.  Temperatures in parts of Poland on New Year’s Day reached almost 19oC, a full 18oC above average...

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Niamh James

Five trends signalling that 2023 will be ‘The Year of The Great Paradigm Shift’

Written by Pooran Desai, founder of OnePlanet In 2022, we saw COP27 come and go, almost three decades after COP1 in Berlin in 1995.  What might 2023 bring?   After a generation of concerted effort, will 2023 be the year when we see the shift in mindset and paradigm we need?  I believe there is a...

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Niamh James

What can we learn this Christmas from the ‘Honourable Harvest’?

Human survival depends on the planet’s ecosystems and the essential products and services they supply us. For too long we have taken, with barely any permission or thought, from these delicate, interconnected systems. Modern society has treated the living world as an unlimited resource which we have relentlessly exploited and extracted from. This has led...

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Niamh James

Regenerative Design – five takeaways from my interview with Daniel Christian Wahl

By Pooran Desai, Founder OnePlanet Here are five key takeaways I have compiled from my interview with the world’s foremost regenerative design expert, Daniel Christian Wahl. Daniel is an author, advisor in regenerative design and winner of the Royal Society of Arts Bicentenary Medal 2021. As part of the Design Council’s COP27 activities, I had...

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Niamh James

Enfield Council generate their climate report using OnePlanet technology

In 2019, Enfield Council declared a state of climate emergency and in 2020 adopted its ambitious Climate Action Plan. For the past year, OnePlanet has been working closely with Enfield Council to upload its key strategies, including the Climate Action Plan, onto the OnePlanet platform.  This has been a pioneer project to develop the platform...

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