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  • How do UK dietary guidelines compare for sustainability?

    February 14, 2017
    How do UK dietary guidelines compare for sustainability?

    UK dietary guidelines are designed to promote healthy eating by providing accessible advice to the public. But what we eat doesn’t only impact on our individual health, it also has […]


  • Annie Quick – “Equality and Sustainability: Where does the UK stand?”

    January 31, 2017
    Annie Quick – “Equality and Sustainability: Where does the UK stand?”

    Annie Quick at Healthy Planet Better World – "Equality and Sustainability: Where does the UK stand?"Watch this video on YouTube Annie Quick, lead for Wellbeing and Inequality at the New […]


  • Panel Debate on Overconsumption vs. Overpopulation – KCL Sustainability Week

    January 31, 2017

    What is the true driver of environmental, social and economic disorder in the 21st century? The world is confronted with a multitude of environmental, social and economic challenges. How do […]


  • Milja Fenger & Samuel Lee-Gammage – “Planet on a plate: Interconnected impacts of our global food system”

    January 31, 2017
    Milja Fenger & Samuel Lee-Gammage – “Planet on a plate: Interconnected impacts of our global food system”

    From Session A1 – “Global Food System Challenges”


  • David Powell – “Flowers, elephants & conflicts: Kenya’s progress on inequality & sustainability”

    January 24, 2017
    David Powell – “Flowers, elephants & conflicts: Kenya’s progress on inequality & sustainability”

    David Powell at Healthy Planet Better World – "Kenya's progress on inequality & sustainability"Watch this video on YouTube Environment programme lead David Powell discusses a partnership between the New Economic […]


  • Highlights from Healthy Planet Better World

    January 24, 2017
    Highlights from Healthy Planet Better World

    Another thank you to all our speakers, delegates and volunteers for making such a fantastic event


  • John Lanchbery – “The Paris Agreement: game changer or more hot air?”

    January 23, 2017
    John Lanchbery – “The Paris Agreement: game changer or more hot air?”

    John Lanchbery at Healthy Planet – "The Paris Agreement: game changer or more hot air?"Watch this video on YouTube John Lanchbery is the Principal Advisor on climate change at the […]


  • Hugh Grant-Peterkin – “Groups under Pressure” & follow-up discussion

    January 9, 2017
    Hugh Grant-Peterkin – “Groups under Pressure” & follow-up discussion

    Hugh Grant-Peterkin considers how psychotherapeutic thinking can help us understand our response to climate change; and opens up the session to a group discussion.


  • Sally Weintrobe – “Some effects of current culture on mental health”

    January 9, 2017
    Sally Weintrobe – “Some effects of current culture on mental health”

    Sally Weintrobe discusses the relationship between mental health, climate change, and a culture of uncare, arguing that climate change is a symptom of a much deeper problem affecting mental health.


  • NOx emissions legal limits breached on 5 January, London

    January 6, 2017
    NOx emissions legal limits breached on 5 January, London

    Under EU rules, sites are only allowed to breach hourly limits of 200 ug of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) /m3 air 18 times in a year, but on 5 January 347.7 ug/ m3 was measured on Brixton Road at 9pm, and was the 19th exceedance this year.


  • Less meat, more veg

    January 6, 2017
    Less meat, more veg

    New analysis identifies the huge gap between a healthy & sustainable diet and what we’re actually eating


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