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• How to set up a neighbourhood group

  10 Sep 2014: A community in a deprived area of Wales learned to use recycling projects and street parties to revive neighbourly spirit. Here are some tips for doing the same in your area
  

• How a neighbourhood scheme ended a nightmare on Ethel Street

  10 Sep 2014: A Halloween party was the unlikely catalyst to the revival in fortunes of a street in Neath Port Talbot, south Wales (our seventh community project), reviving community spirit
  

• Banning food waste: companies in Massachusetts get ready to compost

  9 Sep 2014: Massachusetts recently enacted the most aggressive mandatory composting program in history. How are companies adapting?

• Fukushima fallout continues: now cleanup workers claim unpaid wages

  9 Sep 2014: Last month Tokyo Electric Power was ordered to pay $500,000 compensation, now workers sue for promised danger money

• The house made from 4,000 video cassettes and two tonnes of jeans

  Guardian Professional, 5 Sep 2014: The Brighton Waste House is Britain’s first house made almost entirely from rubbish using chalk, coffee cups and lights en route to Bangladesh for scrap

• We made a wooden table then ate a meal on it – people were amazed

  4 Sep 2014: Kilfinan Community Forest in Argyll, Scotland, trades in timber and teaches visitors sustainability, forest and woodworking skills. Hope Whitmore got a cut of the action
  

• Mining threatens to eat up northern Europe’s last wilderness

  3 Sep 2014: Vast network of rivers, lakes and mountains in Finland, Sweden and Norway at risk from being exploited for rare earth and other minerals
  

• Recycling in the home: how to break down the barriers

  Guardian Professional, 2 Sep 2014: Despite good intentions, only half of all plastic bottles in Britain and France are recycled. Creativity and collaboration will be needed to change habits

• How to set up a bike repair co-operative

  2 Sep 2014: The Broken Spoke Co-operative is the second in our series on community projects; here’s how they set up, and information about how you can do the same

• Bicycle repair: taking it apart is the first step to putting it back together

  2 Sep 2014: A complete repair novice with a dilapidated bicycle, Carlene Thomas-Bailey got her hands dirty with Broken Spoke Co-op. Did it work?
  

• Kenya: mothers and children scratching a living on Eldoret dump

  1 Sep 2014: Extreme poverty drives some Kenyans to scavenge at rubbish dumps for materials that can be sold for recycling. Many are women and children who have no other means of survival

• Writer's community challenge: how I helped bring in the harvest

  1 Sep 2014: Patrick Barkham took up this month’s Live Better challenge to get involved. How did he do on Oak Tree Low Carbon Farm?
  

• No cash for the train fare? Beijing takes plastic ... bottles

  29 Aug 2014:

  City links: This week’s best city stories explore a surprising transit initiative in China, successful green activism in Beirut – and reveal the city that tweets more than any other
  

• Zero Waste Week: a challenge to send nothing to landfill

  27 Aug 2014: Concerned about dwindling resources and that your children inherit a sustainable future? Join an annual campaign, writes Rachelle Strauss

• Chicken feathers and cigarette butts put to use in circular economy

  Guardian Professional, 26 Aug 2014: A floating swimming pool in New York’s Hudson river and a business turning cigarette butts into plastic pellets, hope to change perception of pollution and waste

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