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2. BioRegional's vision is of
thriving regional economies
where we meet more of our
needs from local, renewable
and waste resources, enabling
people to enjoy a high quality
of life within their fair share
of the earth's resources, and
leaving space for wildlife and
wilderness. We call this one
planet living.
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3. Our strategy
Sue Riddlestone, Director
BioRegional’s unique role is to work
with partners to create real-life
demonstrations that show what a
sustainable or “one planet living” future
looks like. We communicate the stories
and results of these projects to help
change policy and practice.
BioRegional’s real-life projects show how we can produce what we
need and live high-quality lives while consuming a fair share of the
world’s resources. We aim to show that sustainability can be easy,
attractive and cost-effective.
This Strategic Plan covers the two year period from 2010 to 2012.
It sets out our strategic objectives, which are focussed on creating
a set of working examples and the stories around them. We will
communicate these during 2012 when the Rio2012 Earth Summit takes
place in Brazil, and the ‘One Planet Olympics’ takes place in London.
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4. If everyone in the world consumed as many
natural resources as the average person in the
UK we'd need three planets to support us. If we
all lived the average American lifestyle, we'd
need five planets to support us.
The One Planet Living framework helps
people and organisations to examine the
sustainability challenges that they face, and to
develop solutions to help them live and work
within a fair share of our planet's resources.
1 Zero carbon 6 Sustainable water
2 Zero waste 7 Land use and wildlife
3 Sustainable transport 8 Culture and heritage
4 Sustainable materials 9 Equity and local economy
5 Local and sustainable food 10 Health and happiness
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5. Our strategic objectives are organised into five themes:
One Planet Communities
working in partnership with developers to build new sustainable communities in North America,
China, UK, South Africa.
One Planet Regions
working in partnership with local authorities to help local people, businesses and council
services across a local authority region to achieve one planet living
One Planet Companies
working in partnership with organisations that are aiming to achieve one planet living in their
own operations, and that are helping their customers to achieve one planet living
Bioregional production systems
demonstrating bioregional production systems and whole supply chains in three priority
footprint areas: food, energy and construction
Policy and communication
communicating BioRegional’s work to help achieve BioRegional’s vision and objectives by
influencing policy and practice, and increasing our profile with key audiences
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7. One Planet Communities
We will work with partners to build new One Planet Communities
internationally on at least four continents by March 2012 to
demonstrate that one planet living can be attractive, cost effective
and possible anywhere in the world. We will use lessons from these
exemplars to influence industry practice and change national policy in
the sector in at least one and up to three countries by March 2012.
We aim to build on BedZED and One Brighton to show that new communities that allow
residents to achieve one planet living can be possible anywhere in the world.
To achieve this we will facilitate development of at least one One Planet Community on each
of four continents. We will focus on countries where we have already made commitments and
progress:
• China
• South Africa
• North America
• UK ( focusing on London 2012 and BioRegional Quintain projects).
These will be mixed-use communities of some scale (circa 2,000 homes), and will include shops,
schools and other community facilities. By March 2012 our aim is for each to be part completed,
with people living and working there and a visitor centre in place, in order to achieve our policy
Photo: © Crest Nicholson/BioRegional Quintain
and practice change goals.
Where we have already worked on a project in a country outside our areas of focus we will
continue to pursue that opportunity if appropriate. Where opportunities for other new
communities arise, we will follow these up only if we have the capacity to work on them without
diverting resources from delivering the four core communities.
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9. One Planet Regions
We will work in partnership with the London Borough of Sutton
to retrofit the one planet living approach into the local authority’s
operations and to the existing local authority region, with a pilot area
in Hackbridge to have achieved average 20% reductions in carbon
and eco-footprint by March 2012.
In the Hackbridge area BioRegional will prioritise measures relating to energy-saving retrofit
and energy generation, the physical environment, the local economy and community
engagement. The target is that leading residents are enabled to reduce their carbon and eco-
footprint by 50%, with average reductions of 20%.
We will work with Sutton Council to develop a monitoring plan and offer support on three
focus areas: delivering zero carbon council buildings, sustainable procurement and embedding
behaviour. These are key to delivering the one planet action plan for Sutton Council’s operations.
Beyond our flagship project in Sutton, we aim to work in partnership with five local authorities
by 2012 to retrofit one planet living into a region. Our objectives include :
• setting up an annual conference and best practice sharing network for current and
prospective One Planet Regions
• developing a toolkit for use by local authorities and their partners to mainstream one
planet living on a regional level
• bringing about one national level policy change in this area
• continuing to influence and work on the design and delivery of the UK government eco-
towns and eco-quarter initiatives, informing industry best practice, government policy
and local authority delivery.
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11. One Planet Companies
We aim to have formed sustainability partnerships with three
companies, embedding the One Planet Living principles into their
operations and customer offerings and with demonstration initiatives
in place by 2012. These companies will act as inspiring examples of
sustainability – they must commit to reducing the impacts of their
operations to a truly sustainable level by 2025.
By 2012 we aim to be working with companies from each of the following areas:
1. consumer-facing companies
2. business to business
3. small and medium sized enterprises.
By working across these areas, we aim to build on our existing links with companies of various
sizes and across a number of industry sectors. This will enable us to utilise the wealth of
technical skills, knowledge and expertise BioRegional holds. We aim to demonstrate truly
sustainable business operations and so advance industry best practice and influence policy.
To meet our objective, BioRegional will aim to work with these companies to:
• understand and calculate company impacts
• develop a bespoke One Planet Living Sustainability Action Plan addressing common
international targets for companies
• audit the company’s progress on a biannual or annual basis to track progress against their
One Planet Living commitments.
In addition we will look to work with consumer-facing companies to cultivate their public facing
work, strengthen their sustainability communications and develop their brand value.
Photo: © B&Q
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13. Bioregional production systems
We aim to develop demonstrations of one planet living approaches
and bioregionalism across supply chains for the provision of goods
and services in the priority footprint areas of food, energy, and
construction by March 2012.
Where possible we will focus this work in Sutton or the wider bioregion to support our One
Planet Regions objective. Specific projects will include:
• the One Planet Food project, creating a sustainable food supply chain in the region
• defining the delivery model and creating a demonstration area of energy efficiency and
energy generation as part of a zero carbon retrofit in the Hackbridge area by March 2012
• promoting a sustainable wood-fuel supply-chain in and around South London
• sustainable lifecycle approaches to construction in the region, including the Re:BUILD
building materials re-use centre project.
Activity will focus on at least one practical demonstration project in each of the three
footprint areas with measurement of results against business as usual. We will also
publish recommendations for industry and policy change based on successful examples or
insurmountable barriers.
In addition we will continue to develop our energy technology and materials knowledge so we
can continue to provide guidance to our key partners and develop new demonstration projects.
Ecological footprint of average UK resident
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15. Policy and communications
By communicating BioRegional’s real life projects and one planet
living approach, we aim to influence industry practice and bring about
international policy change. Our ambitious objectives for 2012 include
influencing the outcome of the Rio2012 Earth Summit, and using the
London 2012 Olympic Games to showcase one planet living.
We aim to use communications to increase the impact of the projects that we are involved in.
By disseminating the results of our work we influence government policy-makers and business
leaders, and enable them to make decisions that help to achieve a sustainable future. Our policy
and communications objectives include:
• promoting one planet living as a key message framework to be used in the build up to the
Rio2012 Earth Summit
• campaigning to integrate the one planet living approach and principles into the final
declaration, treaties or commitments that emerge from the Rio2012 Earth Summit
• opening two One Planet Experience visitor centres - in Sutton and at the Olympic Park -
which use the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to inspire behaviour change
among community leaders and Olympic and Paralympic athletes
• continuing to develop online tools, footprint calculators and good practice reports to help
organisations and individuals sadopt sustainable working practices and lifestyles
• increasing BioRegional’s profile among key audiences (such as government, business and
funders) to help us to continue and expand our work.
Photo: © Gill Allen, The Times
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16. Key contacts
Sue Riddlestone, Executive Director
Email: sue.riddlestone@bioregional.com • Tel: +44 (0)20 8404 4885
Pooran Desai, One Planet Communities Director
Email: pooran.desai@bioregional.com • Tel: +44 (0)20 8404 4883
Jim Fielder, Head of Sustainable Business
Email: jim.fielder@bioregional.com • Tel: +44 (0)20 8404 4894
Philippa Ward, Head of One Planet Regions
Email: philippa.ward@bioregional.com • Tel: +44 (0)20 8404 5918
Julie Codet-Boisse, Head of Project Delivery
Email: julie.cb@bioregional.com • Tel: +44 (0)20 8404 5041
Arabella Scarisbrick, Head of Development
Email: arabella.scarisbrick@bioregional.com • Tel: +44 (0)20 8404 6331
Phil Shemmings, Head of Communications
Email: phil.shemmings@bioregional.com • Tel: +44 (0)20 8404 8404
BioRegional Development Group
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Wallington, Surrey, SM6 7BZ www.bioregional.com
United Kingdom
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