cafe disruptif

The Cafe Disruptif is the home of emerging Creative Disruptors Collective. A survey we're carrying out amongst a group of socially, environmentally and/or politically active individuals is making interesting reading...

CoaSTie Bash 2018: Cornwall - Not Just a Pretty Face

We're back for the 2018 Gathering of the Clans to get our back behind some of the biggest issues facing the county..

And this time we're serious.

The Psychology of Change: CoaSTie Event 2017

The CoaSTie event is back for 2017 - and this time we're digging into that wierd stuff between our ears to understand why ...

Grow Nature Toolkit

Grow Nature Toolkit is up and running!

7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Economist

Kate Raworth is a heart-singingly brilliant economist. And shows us how easy it is for us all to be one, too.

the story of stuff: change the game!

Fantastic short film on things we do that just continue with the old game...or actually *change the rules of the whole damn thing*....

people of nowhere

This is hard to watch. But impossible not to.

eco-nomics is for everyone - just watch

Economics. Just don't believe what you read in all the normal places. It's probably nonsense. Assume different. Watch this for starters.

cultural cornwall

Cornwall is cracking along with a fantastic collaboration between the cultural and the tourism sectors - and it's awfully, awfully exciting...make sure you sign your name in here to be kept up to date...

what to grow for pollinators?

Great resources to find out what to grow, where, and for what...

reboot champ: team bosinver

Bosinver are GOOD at communicating - inspiring their visitors to get outside and get dirty.

the point about scything...

Scything. On old skill - and a fossil fuel, healthy, productive way of harvesting grass and managing wildflower meadows..

wonderful wonderful willow

Willow is awesome. It turns wetland into better habitat, helps store water, captures carbon, creates pollinator space and offers material for baskets, walls, fencing and staking. Awesome.

ReBoot Champ: Lizzy

Lizzy Stroud, Railholidays - lots of expertise on planting, pollinators and habitat

reboot champs: david and karen

David and Karen are looking after the water...big time.

reboot programme hits the papers

Western Morning News picks up the ReBoot programme

Our natural environment is in decline...and it's hurting the economy...

So....we've figured out that trashing our natural systems isn't a fab idea...

Now CoaSTies Are Going Outside...

CoaSTies have got their internal business practices sorted and now they're going outside...

going big on birds

How to turn the wild bird problem into a ReBoot Success...

wildlife gardening

How to make your garden a haven for wildlife, and then co-habit with them all...

reboot champ: lorna and laura

Heligan are going wild at heart. With bells on.

About Bloomin' time

Huzzah! A National Pollinator Strategy! Print-press hot this week...

environmental growth

Surely not?

Inspiration in Barcelona

This is properly inspiring. Have a look. Start thinking.:) I am!

new visitengland sustainable tourism marketing toolkit

VisitEngland launches new sustainable tourism marketing tool.

bude's seas are sparkling

Bude is keeping its seas clean, green and gorgeous...

airbnb provokes debate around regulation

Compelling: the emerging sharing economy (creating more economic value without using more resource) doesn't fit the current system - a rethink is needed

are champions good or bad for your business??

So - are Green Champions good or bad for your business? Talking point...

the bath bone's connected to the sea bone...

CoaST is working with Bude Cleaner Seas to develop bespoke towel cards - and they're doing the business!

Cornwall is UK's first rural Social Enterprise Zone

That stuff about the triple bottom line? This is what we MEAN! :)

no male invertebrate is in charge

Paul Hawkin points out something we have possibly radically underestimated. Reasons to be cheerful...

a thousand flowers

Small is, clearly, beautiful. Doh.

bristol green doors

Fantastic programme to share green home expertise...we love it!

positive defiance in the Basque Country

There are some among us who have the chutzpah to do it differently. And so much better....

Listen Up!

the wrong beans

What if...we've been counting the wrong beans all this time? Or rather - only counting some, and missing out the most important ones??

what's nature ever done for us

Tony Juniper nails it. Wake up and smell the coffee of what the world does to keep us breathing.

the horns of a dilemma

Tim Jackson's lecture at the School of Law. Busting with positive deviance. Even economists do it. And thank God for that, we say.

we are the people we've been waiting for

Ed Gillespie tells it as it is. We Are The People We've Been Waiting For.

wrens: small, noisy and very territorial!

"Time to go back to the future where we have control over our own energy. Time to stop faffing about".  Indeed! The words of a very wise man!

clean, green and gorgeous hits Bodmin

How cleaning need not be a cardinal sin against the environment...

the power of ten

It's back. The CoaST annual party - noisy, exciting, and full of positive deviance. Booking form right here....crack on!

clean green and gorgeous hits Newquay

The Importance of Having Good Props....

brave new money worlds

We love this. Great article - food for thought if you haven't mulled over this stuff yet...this is a FABULOUS intro...

a curtain that could change your life?

And the deal is, you make it yourself. Here are the plans...

heresy? or just blinding common sense?

The G word.

Looe Marine Conservation Group in action!

Looe Marine Conservation Group has hit the ground running...

low carbon ladock

Local energy generation expected to add over £2m to Ladock parish over next 20 years

just capitalism? Really?

That's all I need to never use Google again.

fishy ambassador leads the way!

Fishy CoaST Ambassador Harbour Lights is a proper Positive Deviant - go for it, guys!

so - are you fogged up?

SAS have a new campaign: save our beaches - don't pour fats, oils and greases...simple!

talking sustainability with employees

getting the sustainability conversation going....

obama raises hopes on climate action

Cornwall Green Doors

Bristol started this! But we love it - a rolling programme of CoaSTies who throw open their doors to share their smart green expertise....

water framework what?

Water Framework? Directive? Wossat? It's a new bit of law. From the EU. And it'll help us clean up our waters....

discovering the extraordinary

What's the best way to communicate our heritage? Books? Songs? Semaphore? Here's a few tips...

utterly brilliant bus marketing

First we brought you the Piano Staircase. Then we brought you the World's Longest Drop. Now we bring you - The Cool Bus. Awesome. We LOVE this.:)

it's really, really good to talk...no, REALLY.

I bet you didn't realise how important talking was until you read this. It's a "duh" moment; and we all need them....

there's a would be greenie in us all...

It could be as easy as just helping someone feel they're one of the good guys...

bristol pound

launch of the bristol pound

taking a stand on milk

Co-op increases its milk payments to dairy farmers....hurray!

the science...of changing our minds...

Behaviour change WRIT LARGE. What made it happen?

sunny side of life? Really?

The truth will out: twitter reveals the reality of repression in resort paradise....

positive deviants are kicking financial *ss

We're waking up and smelling the coffee...with knobs on...

banking on something better

I'm banking on something better.

enough is enough

"evidence of systemic greed"....

brave new transportation world?

Slowly, slowly, we can see a new transport architecture being built...

tamar valley: a grand day out

A Grand Day Out in the Tamar Valley!

tamar valley champions

One Valley. A thousand stories...

greentraveller.co.uk

Green travel. From start. To finish. We love' em.

my intellectual v*****

This is one of the most extraordinary guys I have seen on my screen. A head and heart - ful of "those si, se peude" moments.... (roughly translated as "yes, we can"....)

rspb says wind power works for birds

The RSPB, the UK charity working to protect bird populations, has given the greenlight to use wind energy to power its own activities.

car free travel roll out in the lakes

Lake District targets visitors with £7m green travel scheme

Best of Both Worlds

We can offer the best of both worlds when it comes to networking, too...

south west and midlands now in drought

Official drought zones have been declared in a further 17 English counties, as a warning came that water shortages could last until Christmas.

OutStanding Landscape Champions

And we now have our first CoaSTie OutStanding Landscape Champions...

world (heritage) champions

We're adding to the Champion Family...welcome to the World Heritage Champions ...

co-op group means green bizness

The Co-operative Group has smashed its carbon emissions reduction target of 35 per cent by 2017, meeting it instead this year.

exmoor is first dark skies reserve in the uk

Exmoor is the first Dark Skies Reserve in the UK...another great success from the south west...

a cracking idea, grommit...

North Devon has waves, and beaches, and no way for young surfers to get there. So they just figured it out, and made a way....fantastic!

the happy museum

The Happy Museum. Think about it...do we ever put those words together in our own minds?

the green nudge?

Big brands are nudging their customers to change their choices...or are they?

where on earth is Vanuatu?

the happiest yet the most dangerous country in the world

cod cut at cornish chippie

Cod cut out at CoaST Ambassador Cornish chippie!

good money: ethical finance

It's one the biggest ways we can make sure we're having a positive impact. Or let a negative one happen in our name. Fortunately, easy to fix. :)

bring on the batteries

This man just got up and solved the problem.

a thousand moments of genius

A two minute read; lasting uplift.

ethics r us

Well, that's a bit of a stretch. But we like to keep the issue on the table. Right in the middle. Because what's the alternative?

getting the stifkit

We don't tend to go in for awards ourselves....

six top tips for getting your message across

Here are six super simple tips for getting that message across...

On Small, Collaboration, and The Having of Faith.

Smallest room; biggest talker? David Goldblatt talks about Toilets He Has Mused From...

top 100 social enterprises

CoaST and ReZolve make the RBS top 100 Social Enterprises

great time + green message = change for good!

Bosinver Cottages are one of our Ambassador businesses...and they make it an Ambassadorial priority to be an Agent of Change...

sharing the work

Heresy? Generally a good thing to allow a bit of heretical thought..keeps us on our toes. A slap across the face of Complacency. A little unpleasant, but always invigorating.

south west cycle routes linked 'could boost tourism'

Joining stuff up is good...very good!

electric end to end

They did it. End to end, in an electric car. Blimey.

mcs pocket good fish guide

What it says. The fool-proof guide to getting into a Good Fish Habit.

car free idea: CoaST members' suggestions

CoaST members have loads of suggestions. Use this to add your own, and see what else is being suggested.

car free idea: alpine pearls

Tourism for tomorrow

slow travel

Have you ever come home more exhausted than you were before you left? Say no more... have a look at these links to those fantastic slow travel movements who can help you help your visitors travel in a more relaxing pace.

carbon roundtable

A programme being currently run by the University of Exeter, this provides space for leaders and open innovators to come together and start to crack the carbon conundrum. Helmets will be provided.

the impossible hamster

Yup. This is about a hamster.

tourism for all

It's a new world, it's a new day...

coast linen card

CoaST has designed a linen card to go with its sister towel card

coast consultancy services

From dipping your little toe into the waters of sustainable tourism, to your first lengths, to full on open ocean breaststroke. We can help you with the kit, the swimming costume, and the training programme.

coast hosts

One of the ways we communicate with our members is by running CoaST Hosts - gatherings at a CoaST member property, to build in good opportunities to talk face to face, to celebrate achievement, hear new ideas, and plan the next ones.

leadership

In CoaST speak, though, not the sort of leadership that involves elbowing your way to the top as fast as humanly possible ensuring at all times that one is seen to be better than the rest. .

visitor gifting

An easy way to help our visitors make lots of tiny, and crucial, contributions to their favourite thing about their holiday...

giving the (green) finger

Futerra, our particularly splendid comms experts mates in London, inspired us to do this...

outstanding cornwall: visitor charter

Bespoke CoaST Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Visitor Charter - use on your website, and in your printed material!

ambassadors of change

This is exactly what our Ambassadors have been doing. Inspiring change ...

positive deviance

Have you ever wondered about why you seem to be repeatedly going against the grain; pushing the other way; wanting to Not Go where everyone seems to be headed, almost by instinct?

the longest drop

So simple it's delicious. Compare this to the sort of bins you're asked to put your rubbish into; clean and cool? or big and dirty and unloved? it really matters.

the fun theory

It's a no brainer, really. We like doing stuff that's fun. So that's what change needs to be. You'll never look at a staircase in the same way again.