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Circularity

What is a Lending Library? An Explainer

Karl Dickinson - August 11, 2025

A Lending Library allows citizens to borrow… well, anything. It’s emerging as an increasingly popular cost-saving, community-boosting, emission-reducing stalwart of the sharing economy. Could there be a greater neighbourly gesture than sharing your possessions? Lending someone...

Water

Preventing Day Zero: Lessons from Cape Town

Karl Dickinson - February 16, 2023

Day Zero: the moment a city’s water dries up completely. For Cape Town, this deadly scenario came too close, but it was averted thanks to collective action and decisive leadership. This story serves as...

Guest Article

Fail Better! Lessons from Effective Climate Action

External content - January 31, 2023

This article was written for CityChangers.com by Ms Kaisa-Reeta Koskinen, who works as a Head of Climate Unit at the City of Helsinki, and Dr Susa Eräranta, Project Director at the City of Helsinki...

Editorial

Climate What? Choose Your Words Carefully

Karl Dickinson - May 18, 2023

In the realm of climate change and sustainability, how much do the words we use matter? A lot. As any linguist will tell you, language shapes our relationship with the world around us. Recently, a colleague...

Editorial

Just What is the Beef with Meat?

Karl Dickinson - November 14, 2023

There’s a lot to be said for going vegan. That must be why they drone on about it all the time! Like other drones, don’t you wish they would just fly off? But let’s give...

Greenery & Biodiversity

CityChanger Balin Koyunoglu: Creating Resilient Cities Through Rewilding

Karl Dickinson - March 19, 2024

Humans and wildlife have much in common. Urban sprawl deprives both of the resources, protection, and environmental stability that the natural world offers. Rewilding cities can reverse these fortunes. We explore what’s to gain...

Climate Adaptation

The First Rule Is: Don’t Talk About Climate Change

Karl Dickinson - November 6, 2023

How to communicate about climate in a way that drives real and sustainable change The problem: The doom and gloom language we constantly hear around human-caused climate change makes people feel helpless. Without hope there...

Water

Case For Urban Water Management

Karl Dickinson - February 16, 2023

The more we build, the more we disrupt natural water systems, calling into question whether we’ll have enough to sustain growing city populations. Prioritising water management and blue infrastructure will enable urban environments to...

Water

Water Facts & Figures

Karl Dickinson - February 16, 2023

Water impacts on everything we do, so the problems that mount from handling it poorly are many and varied. To help contextualise the importance of H20 to populous places, we bring you some of...

Migration

The Challenges of Urban Migration in European Cities

Karl Dickinson - December 6, 2023

Migration is a complex and divisive topic. Multiple political, economic, social, even environmental factors contribute to the discourse – not to mention a minefield of misinformation. For better or worse, these influences affect migrants’...

Energy

Young Leader Hamza Amin: Shaping Equitable Communications for a Better Pakistan

Karl Dickinson - September 18, 2023

The effects of climate change are not equal everywhere. Pakistan is one of the world’s lowest greenhouse gas emitters, but it is dealing with some of the harshest consequences. With projections that it will...

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