The One Planet initiative

Overview

BioRegional's global One Planet initiative consists of a range of  practical projects and partnerships that demonstrate how we can live within our fair share of the earth’s resources. Many of BioRegional's current and recent projects form part of the One Planet initiative. Click on the tabs above to find out more about the main themes of the initiative:

• communities
• regions
• organisations
• lifestyles

The One Planet initiative uses the 10 principles of one planet living as a framework to live within our fair share of the earth’s resources.

In December 2009 the BioRegional team travelled to Copenhagen to attend COP15, the Climate Exchange and Klimaforum. We promoted our One Planet solutions, and demonstrated that a low carbon future is achievable. Our focus now is on promoting our work and that of our partners at the 2012 World Summit.

Communities

BioRegional's One Planet Communities programme is a network of earth’s greenest neighbourhoods, where people can live a healthier, high-quality lifestyle within a fair share of our planet's resources.

Working with developers around the world, the programme currently has award-winning endorsed projects in the USA, UK, and Portugal, with others planned in South Africa, China, Australia, and Canada. Use the tabs above to find out about these projects and the leading developers that are behind them.

Officially-endorsed projects display the planet with a heart logo which means that the development has a Sustainability Action Plan approved by BioRegional, aims to meet stringent One Planet Community 2020 targets and will be independently monitored until 2020.

The currently endorsed communities are:

Sonoma Mountain Village, USA  - visit scheme website

One Brighton, UK - visit scheme website

Mata de Sesimbra, Portugal

One Gallions, UK - visit scheme website

Find out more on the One Planet Communties page or visiting our separate One Planet Communities website.

Regions

BioRegional's One Planet regions programme is for cities, counties, districts and boroughs that have committed to adopt the One Planet Living framework.

We work in partnership with municipal authorities, local residents, voluntary organisations and businesses to put in place initiatives and that can be adopted throughout the area to help organisations and individuals to use the 10 principles of one planet living to reduce their environmental footprint.

The London Borough of Sutton is the first region to sign up to the programme, with its groundbreaking One Planet Sutton initiative.

You can find out more here:

One Planet Sutton website

Sutton Council's One Planet Sutton page

Sutton Council's Hackbridge Project page

Organisations

BioRegional's One Planet organisations programme helps companies, not-for-profit organisations, and community groups to reduce their impact on the environment, using the One Planet Living framework.

B&Q and One Planet Home

BioRegional and B&Q, the UK’s largest home improvement retailer, have embarked on a three year partnership to develop and implement two sustainability action plans.
The operational plan looks at reducing the impacts of B&Q’s company activities, leading to a 90% cut in direct emissions by 2023. The customer plan will help B&Q’s customers achieve one planet living in their homes and gardens through their One Planet Home product range.

You can find out more about B&Q's One Planet Home project here and on B&Q's website.

One Planet Action Plan

We have developed a free toolkit to help small to medium sized organisations to develop their own One Planet Action Plan: to save money, reduce your impacts and demonstrate your commitment to sustainability.

You can download the toolkit here.

Lifestyles

Our One Planet lifestyles programme aims to provide the general public with information, inspiration, tools and products that help them to achieve one planet living. Although much of the public facing work is provided through our partner projects, such as One Planet Sutton and the B&Q One Planet Home range, BioRegional also works directly with the public through our online One Planet Challenge calculator and action plan tool, and through our Visitor Centre and BedZED Tours programme.