What would it be like to live somewhere where the climate and ecological crises have been solved?
The Dorset 2030 report, produced by the Zero Carbon Dorset project, taking input from more than a hundred people, with a wide variety of backgrounds: from academics to activists, students to sustainability professionals, community leaders to elected councillors, defines such a vision for Dorset, while ensuring that the quality of life for many has actually improved. Setting out a suggested vision for each of the key areas (transport, housing, energy, land use etc.), it then seeks to measure where we are now, outline what we need to do to get to where we want to be and presents over 120 stories of local action to share and inspire others. Although written in 2021 the majority of information remains equally relevant today; not least as our leaders have failed to act with the urgency required.
Our work now centres around progressing further research while engaging the wider community with the information and stories we have compiled.
Our ultimate aim is to inspire community-led groups and individuals to take the necessary action, through their own endeavours and through lobbying our leaders, to bring about changes such as those outlined in our visions and recommendations.
The Dorset 2030 report, produced by the Zero Carbon Dorset project, taking input from more than a hundred people, with a wide variety of backgrounds: from academics to activists, students to sustainability professionals, community leaders to elected councillors, defines such a vision for Dorset, while ensuring that the quality of life for many has actually improved. Setting out a suggested vision for each of the key areas (transport, housing, energy, land use etc.), it then seeks to measure where we are now, outline what we need to do to get to where we want to be and presents over 120 stories of local action to share and inspire others. Although written in 2021 the majority of information remains equally relevant today; not least as our leaders have failed to act with the urgency required.
Our work now centres around progressing further research while engaging the wider community with the information and stories we have compiled.
Our ultimate aim is to inspire community-led groups and individuals to take the necessary action, through their own endeavours and through lobbying our leaders, to bring about changes such as those outlined in our visions and recommendations.
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It's not for us to decide what a future Dorset should look like, but by sharing a series of visions (including the visual above from AUB Graduate Abi Buckingham) we hope to bring the wider community into the discussion about the sort of future we want to create.
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Compiled by a team of volunteers, though a series of workshops and fact finding sessions, Dorset 2030 outlines the issues we face as well as potential solutions, highlighting more than 120 local stories of positive steps already taking place across the county.
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As we discover what's going on in Dorset and around the world we share it here.
Search by subject area or time for the stories important to you. If you have news to share, please send us full details using our contact form. You can also find last year's news here. |
As well as the workshops held to compile the information for the Report, we hold occasional on-line and in-person events to raise awareness and share stories. We were the lead partner in organising the first ever community-led COP in 2023 and its follow up in 2024.
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We are nothing without the stories and contributions from Dorset's community. However, we can't hope to find out everything that's going on without your help. If you've got a story of your own to share, or want to share something you're excited by - please let us know.
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Browse Our Videos
Our YouTube channel hosts videos of everything from our events to stories and news from other organisations we feel are worth sharing. Please subscribe and if you have a video you'd like to recommend message us here.
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Our First Annual Review
The original report contains a series of objectives and a notional score of how well we feel the county is progressing against each. We plan to revisit these regularly, to update and refresh our perspective, alongside sharing new stories.
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How to get involved
We're completely volunteer led and run and always grateful for any help we can with any of the activities described here.
If you have some time and a skill to offer please let us know. |