Sustainable masterplanning, Finnish style
With support from the Finnish Innovation Fund, Sitra, we worked with Skanska Finland to plan two new city districts where 15,000 people can live sustainably
4 essentials for a website redesign
As Bioregional launches its new website, our comms manager Emmelie Brownlee shares four ingredients for a successful project
25 reasons to be cheerful in Bioregional’s anniversary year
As Bioregional reaches 25 this year, our CEO Sue Riddlestone explains why she remains stubbornly optimistic about achieving One Planet Living
We need to do development differently – and that means putting people first
The standard approach to designing new homes and communities isn’t working. But there’s a better way says Anthony Probert
Committee on Climate Change 2019 progress report: leadership starts at homes
Our Head of Communications and Policy Julia Hawkins spoke to Sky News yesterday about the Committee on Climate Change's damning new progress report. Here she gives her thoughts on how real progress could start with our homes
Bioregional’s 25th anniversary - We can do this
As Bioregional celebrates its 25th anniversary, Julia Hawkins reflects on a quarter of a century of championing One Planet Living and shares how we can stay inspired in the face of the climate emergency. We can do this
Beyond zero-carbon homes: we must design for sustainable living
Last night, our CEO Sue Riddlestone was on BBC London. Letting the cameras into her own eco-village home at BedZED, she shared how and why sustainable living must be embedded into our housing and communities
10 emergency actions for the built environment
At this year's Futurebuild, we shared how attendees could #ActNow on the climate and ecological emergency. Here are our 10 tried-and-tested tips for creating a better, more sustainable built environment for people and planet
"One Planet Living is the perfect model for engaging people" - Debbie Meihls, One Planet Living champion
The small surfing city of New Smyrna Beach in Florida is embracing our One Planet Living framework. Debbie Meihls from the local visitor bureau tells us how its shared vision for a better future is capturing the imaginations of local people
Bioregional recognises community in Ontario for One Planet Living Global leadership
A disused carpark in Ontario, Canada, has become the second community in Canada to receive Bioregional’s prestigious One Planet Living® Global leadership status
London Climate Action Week 2020
We’re excited to be taking part in London Climate Action Week for the second year running, and will be sharing our solutions to the climate and ecological emergency in a free webinar
London Climate Action Week - webinar recording & round-up
Watch the recording of our London Climate Action Week 2020 webinar and enjoy a round-up of our favourite events from the week
Developing for net zero: Are mixed-use developments the future?
Last week we brought together two visionary developers in a webinar to discuss the role that good quality, mixed-use developments can play in both a post-Covid world and tackling the climate and ecological emergency
Sue Riddlestone wins Urban Re-Inventor Award
Our CEO, Sue Riddlestone OBE, wins the Academy of Urbanism's Urban Re-inventor Award and is honoured by a poem from Ian McMillan
One Brighton
Taking the lessons from BedZED, these two cutting-edge apartment buildings in the heart of Britain’s premier seaside resort have brought sustainable living into the mainstream and achieved commercial success
Sutton Council
Sutton Council became the first One Planet Living council in 2009, with its action plan to deliver sustainability to this outer London borough
Futurebuild 2022: registration now open
We are excited to announce we are partnering with Futurebuild 2022, and registration is now open
Bioregional’s targets to cut greenhouse emissions approved by the Science Based Targets initiative
Bioregional has announced new science-based targets that will see it reduce its carbon footprint in line with the emissions cuts needed to limit global heating to 1.5°C
Bioregional commits to Mayor of London’s net-zero office space target
We have joined the call to meet the UKGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Framework Definition by 2030
Impact Review 2021/22
It was a landmark year for the climate. Let’s not allow our ‘last best chance’ to slip away