Green Actions

Throughout 2019 we've been hearing all about your green action so we can showcase them here to inspire others to get involved.

It's not too late to take action! You could arrange a litter pick or beach clean, create a community garden to grow your own food, make water, waste and energy-saving improvements to your home or organisation, or just spend time out appreciating the beauty of the natural world by volunteering or visiting green spaces.

The Rollings Family fulfil their Year of Green Action pledge

Heron Hill in Cumbria are getting to grips with beekeeping

A St Albans school is pollinator friendly.

These icons represent the three key Year of Green Action themes.

Birdgirl is helping inner city children connect with nature.

Using green space to tackle local health inequalities

How a school reduced its plastic usage through Allotmint soap bars

Barrybados Beach Clean-up

Raising awareness of plastic through art

Urban Greening: Sowton

Building new homes for swifts and communities

Kent Police Green Guardians

Nature in the community redefining a nature reserve.

The annual North East Spring Otter Survey

Celebrate sustainable living at the Festival of Thrift

Green infrastructure underpins Woodhurst Park

How the Global Action Plan Youth Forum are leading the plastic-free revolution

Bees’ Needs Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of bees & other pollinators

X-Polli:Nation Citizen Science Project

An arable farmer talks about farming with wildlife

The eco-council at Monkspath Junior & Infants School used Water Explorer to tackle SDG 6

What nature can do for you and your business?

Creating the largest semi-natural woodland in the Lake District

RAF High Wycome tackle an overgrown pond

If you’d like us to use feature your green action please tell us

What you did, or intend to do, and when?
Which theme, or themes, it delivers against?
Who and how many people it involves?
That you are happy for us to store, and potentially use, the information.

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