Neighborhood gardens for local food sources.
By Aya Okawa
In Our Hands - Everyday Earth
Focusing our lenses on the small but meaningful ways we interact with the environment in daily life. This task highlights how everyday actions contribute to a healthier planet, from recycling routines and sustainable transport to urban gardening or mindful consumption. Capturing the quiet beauty and impact of eco-conscious living, revealing how environmental care is woven into ordinary moments and choices all around us.
Neighborhood gardens for local food sources.
By Aya Okawa
Solar power cells stretch across open fields.
By Aya Okawa
Applauded by environmentalists, Mount Taranaki, a stratovolcano on New Zealand’s North Island, which was granted ‘legal personhood’ - the same rights and protections under the law as are afforded to people.
By Aya Okawa
The Galapagos Islands are renowned for their wildlife and for Charles Darwin's discoveries. A remote and beautiful place, that has though its own communities working regularly to collect plastic that is washed up on its beaches. To help retain the health of its ecosystems and wildlife the islands are celebrated for. Wall murals are common around the town of Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz island. This one caught my eye for relaying the important message on the damage done by microplastics that both get in to fish and then to us when we eat them.
By Victoria Robb
A portrait of Krista, taken at the Glen Ridge Quarry . The Quarry was a former Municipal Dump, reclaimed and re-wilded. It is now a natural habitat for animals and a recreation site for the local citizens.
By Trish Crawford
Using green food waste, leaflitter and garden weeds etc. to make compost for the veg plot
By Louise Knaresborough LRPS
The Sefton coast is an ideal place to enjoy time with the family. Formby has lovely walks across the dunes and along the beach. It is home to the endangered natterjack toad and sand lizard. The National Trust manage the area so everyone can enjoy their visit. The notice board is decorated with a fish with plastic scales.
By Evelynne Rogers
There are signs asking you to take your litter home but large bins are provided for the increasing amount of waste. The beach at Marshside, in the north of Sefton, has been allowed to rewild. The RSPB manages it to provide a safe habitat for visiting birds to rest and feed. Signs at the carpark ask them to take their litter home.
By Evelynne Rogers
Visitors to the area are encourage to pick up 3 pieces of plastic on their walk. Grabbers are provided.
By Evelynne Rogers
In a time when children seem more connected to the virtual world than the natural one, with some even going as far as suggesting our i-gen children are suffering from nature deficit disorder, the dens in Alice Holt Forest tell a different story. These wooden structures, sculpted from forest trees and fallen branches, are made, destroyed and re-made by children and families visiting the forest. They are traces of a creative rewilding of children in nature. I have been photographing these transient spaces since 2016 but I rarely catch people in the act of building the dens. Instead, I photograph what the builders leave behind when the forest is quiet.
By Corinne Whitehouse
By Corinne Whitehouse
By Corinne Whitehouse
The Rhine valley is listed as a world heritage site. The view is stunning, but it is often difficult to access as there is a rail line running between the river and the villages on both banks.
By Christina Osborne
Large kilometer boards dominate the banks of the Rhein. These are spaced along the Rhein. Counting starts upstream at a bridge in Konstanz and these are used to help navigation along the river.
By Christina Osborne