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Water, nature, sustainability, human rights, mental health, greener lifestyles and ways to act to slow and manage climate change.
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Some neighbourhoods are already uninsurable due to climate-related flood risk and London urgently needs to upgrade its drainage systems and flood defences.
Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk
Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Some neighbourhoods are already uninsurable due to climate-related flood risk and London urgently needs to upgrade its drainage systems and flood defences.
Climate shocks, underinvestment, leaks, pollution and wastage… our water supply is in deep trouble
How can England possibly be running out of water?
While famously rainswept, climate crisis, population growth and profligacy mean the once unthinkable could be possible
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Climate shocks, underinvestment, leaks, pollution and wastage… our water supply is in deep trouble
Foraging in a heatwave? Yikes! But when better to head into a shady park or woodland to harvest nettle seeds - an ancient pick-me-up for stressed times...
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Forage fiercer: what to pick or gather in…
July. Have heatwaves left you parched and stressed? It’s time to gather nettle seeds
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July 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Foraging in a heatwave? Yikes! But when better to head into a shady park or woodland to harvest nettle seeds - an ancient pick-me-up for stressed times...
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A slam-dunk by Sally Rooney.
Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney
If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A slam-dunk by Sally Rooney.
Walking with cuckoos, or things we've loved and lost
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Walking with cuckoos
To spend time out in nature is to breathe and bathe in beauty. But sometimes it’s a bitter-sweet reminder of loss.
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June 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Walking with cuckoos, or things we've loved and lost
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Celebrating the people and startups turning climate talk into climate action, at home and abroad, at the Ashden awards @RGS_IBG tonight. Featuring @nakate_vanessa, @ashden_org
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Just don’t call it the #greenOscars 😘
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Just don’t call it the #greenOscars 😘
June 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Celebrating the people and startups turning climate talk into climate action, at home and abroad, at the Ashden awards @RGS_IBG tonight. Featuring @nakate_vanessa, @ashden_org
@ashden-org.bsky.social
Just don’t call it the #greenOscars 😘
@ashden-org.bsky.social
Just don’t call it the #greenOscars 😘
Bottom trawling, delivering on the promise of 30x30 marine-protections, deepsea mining - it's all on the agenda at this week's UN Ocean Summit in Nice.
Here's why the outcomes matter to all of us...
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Here's why the outcomes matter to all of us...
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A deepsea SOS – will the UN summit save our seas?
Scientists, campaigners and heads of state meet in Nice this week, to talk about ways to protect our hard-pressed seas and oceans from pollution, over-fishing, exploitation and climate change
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June 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Bottom trawling, delivering on the promise of 30x30 marine-protections, deepsea mining - it's all on the agenda at this week's UN Ocean Summit in Nice.
Here's why the outcomes matter to all of us...
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Here's why the outcomes matter to all of us...
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This would be a game-changer. Ban bottom trawling *and* deepsea mining
Campaigners hail plan to ban bottom trawling in half of England’s protected seas
Environmental groups welcome government proposals to clamp down on destructive fishing practice
www.theguardian.com
June 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This would be a game-changer. Ban bottom trawling *and* deepsea mining
How do we protect our waters from canal to coast?
➡️ Use less plastic personally
➡️ Join a litter pick
➡️ Get water firms to clean up their act
➡️ Tackle fishing industry ghost nets
➡️ Don’t buy trawled fish
➡️ Ban trawlers from MPAs and high seas
#Earthfest
➡️ Use less plastic personally
➡️ Join a litter pick
➡️ Get water firms to clean up their act
➡️ Tackle fishing industry ghost nets
➡️ Don’t buy trawled fish
➡️ Ban trawlers from MPAs and high seas
#Earthfest
June 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
How do we protect our waters from canal to coast?
➡️ Use less plastic personally
➡️ Join a litter pick
➡️ Get water firms to clean up their act
➡️ Tackle fishing industry ghost nets
➡️ Don’t buy trawled fish
➡️ Ban trawlers from MPAs and high seas
#Earthfest
➡️ Use less plastic personally
➡️ Join a litter pick
➡️ Get water firms to clean up their act
➡️ Tackle fishing industry ghost nets
➡️ Don’t buy trawled fish
➡️ Ban trawlers from MPAs and high seas
#Earthfest
@laurenthesunflower.bsky.social tells #earthfest:
“The UK has been through harrowing austerity: 6m households in energy poverty. Yet Equinor has made record profits. Oil and gas is making the obscenely rich obscenely richer - at the expense of everyone else”
“The UK has been through harrowing austerity: 6m households in energy poverty. Yet Equinor has made record profits. Oil and gas is making the obscenely rich obscenely richer - at the expense of everyone else”
June 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
@laurenthesunflower.bsky.social tells #earthfest:
“The UK has been through harrowing austerity: 6m households in energy poverty. Yet Equinor has made record profits. Oil and gas is making the obscenely rich obscenely richer - at the expense of everyone else”
“The UK has been through harrowing austerity: 6m households in energy poverty. Yet Equinor has made record profits. Oil and gas is making the obscenely rich obscenely richer - at the expense of everyone else”
People power is pushing government and business to clean up our waterways and create cleaner, greener riversides. Showing our waterways some love during London Rivers Week could just be the start...
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Let’s show our rivers some love
Diverted, polluted and cased in concrete... our rivers are struggling. Many are too clogged with waste and sewage for wildlife to thrive or for people to swim. Changing this starts with people power
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June 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
People power is pushing government and business to clean up our waterways and create cleaner, greener riversides. Showing our waterways some love during London Rivers Week could just be the start...
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Forage fiercer
greener’s monthly column on what to pick or gather. Less about food, more about getting out in - and reconnecting to - nature…
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greener’s monthly column on what to pick or gather. Less about food, more about getting out in - and reconnecting to - nature…
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Forage fiercer: what to pick or gather in…
June. Here comes high-summer abundance. It’s time to gather lime blossom
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May 31, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Forage fiercer
greener’s monthly column on what to pick or gather. Less about food, more about getting out in - and reconnecting to - nature…
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greener’s monthly column on what to pick or gather. Less about food, more about getting out in - and reconnecting to - nature…
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Most of us - 89 per cent - want more action to tackle climate change and nature loss. But we also believe that we're alone in that wish. And if it's hard to act it's harder still to win the hearts and minds of others.
What can we do..?
What can we do..?
What we talk about when we talk about climate change...
Or how to win hearts and minds when we ourselves can find it hard to act
greenermagazine.substack.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Most of us - 89 per cent - want more action to tackle climate change and nature loss. But we also believe that we're alone in that wish. And if it's hard to act it's harder still to win the hearts and minds of others.
What can we do..?
What can we do..?
Sad news; a great photographer and an Earth protector who did so much to restore the land he lived on. Rest in power
Sebastião Salgado, photographer known for Amazon rainforest images, dies aged 81
Death confirmed by Instituto Terra, the environmental restoration non-profit he and his wife founded
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Sad news; a great photographer and an Earth protector who did so much to restore the land he lived on. Rest in power
Big decision; huge!
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🎉 HUGE NEWS: The EU Court has confirmed marine protected areas must be PROPERLY protected from bottom trawling! Countries must act to fulfil their legal duty to safeguard these areas from destruction. This is an absolute WIN for our ocean. 🙌 1/2
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
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May 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Big decision; huge!
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"We dig as little as possible, to preserve soil health, although we plant tomatoes, chard and broad beans every spring. To keep costs down, we trade seeds and plants with neighbours and local growers - a lovely way to sow your own tribe."
Are you ready to grow wilder?
Postcards from managing an urban garden for nature, climate resilience and joy
greenermagazine.substack.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"We dig as little as possible, to preserve soil health, although we plant tomatoes, chard and broad beans every spring. To keep costs down, we trade seeds and plants with neighbours and local growers - a lovely way to sow your own tribe."
Oops, oh my - greener has landed on Substack.
Come join the ride!
greener is for everyone who believes a fairer, greener future is necessary and possible
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Come join the ride!
greener is for everyone who believes a fairer, greener future is necessary and possible
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To be or not to be... greener
On renewal, rebirth and regeneration - here's what I've learned from starting over.
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May 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Oops, oh my - greener has landed on Substack.
Come join the ride!
greener is for everyone who believes a fairer, greener future is necessary and possible
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Come join the ride!
greener is for everyone who believes a fairer, greener future is necessary and possible
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“I’m fascinated by the ways in which the drive to eliminate the dissenting autonomy of water – of running water, of rivers, of springs – has marched often in lockstep with power that seeks to eliminate all forms of spiritual relationships with land and water, replacing the sacred with the fiscal.”
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Robert Macfarlane: ‘Sometimes I felt as if the river was writing me’
The writer and poet on reimagining rivers as living beings, the ecological crisis near and far and why copyright laws should protect nature
www.theguardian.com
May 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
“I’m fascinated by the ways in which the drive to eliminate the dissenting autonomy of water – of running water, of rivers, of springs – has marched often in lockstep with power that seeks to eliminate all forms of spiritual relationships with land and water, replacing the sacred with the fiscal.”
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No one who sees Ocean With David Attenborough can unsee the impacts of bottom trawling.
It’s like napalming a rainforest.
The film is a powerful call to arms for #oceanConservation #30by30 ahead of #UNoceanConference
Let’s do this.
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It’s like napalming a rainforest.
The film is a powerful call to arms for #oceanConservation #30by30 ahead of #UNoceanConference
Let’s do this.
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#thebottomline #thebottomline #oceanfilm #oceanwithdavidattenborough | Blue Marine Foundation | 110 comments
EXPOSED: Never seen before footage reveals the catastrophic impacts caused by bottom trawling
“Bottom trawling is still allowed in many so-called marine protected areas worldwide. And perhaps even ...
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May 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
No one who sees Ocean With David Attenborough can unsee the impacts of bottom trawling.
It’s like napalming a rainforest.
The film is a powerful call to arms for #oceanConservation #30by30 ahead of #UNoceanConference
Let’s do this.
🐬🐙🐠🦑🪸🦈🪼🦀🐋
It’s like napalming a rainforest.
The film is a powerful call to arms for #oceanConservation #30by30 ahead of #UNoceanConference
Let’s do this.
🐬🐙🐠🦑🪸🦈🪼🦀🐋
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Ratsey bags - the fore runner of the #Tote_bag?
They were made from a single piece of #sail_canvas sewn up the sides and used for carrying coal/ice to waiting #yachts. The design was adapted by L L Bean in making his original Tote bags.
Trying to find original sources for this. #maritimehistory
They were made from a single piece of #sail_canvas sewn up the sides and used for carrying coal/ice to waiting #yachts. The design was adapted by L L Bean in making his original Tote bags.
Trying to find original sources for this. #maritimehistory
May 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Ratsey bags - the fore runner of the #Tote_bag?
They were made from a single piece of #sail_canvas sewn up the sides and used for carrying coal/ice to waiting #yachts. The design was adapted by L L Bean in making his original Tote bags.
Trying to find original sources for this. #maritimehistory
They were made from a single piece of #sail_canvas sewn up the sides and used for carrying coal/ice to waiting #yachts. The design was adapted by L L Bean in making his original Tote bags.
Trying to find original sources for this. #maritimehistory
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The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
Another record year for the Green Party 👏
859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales
Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk
859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales
Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk
May 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
Barely a week after surveys found that 89% of us want governments to do more - not less - to tackle climate change...
Tony Blair; Tone deaf!
Tony Blair; Tone deaf!
Climate experts and politicians round on Tony Blair for ‘wrong message’
Former Labour PM accused of ‘handing talking points’ to Tories and Reform after saying net zero strategy faltering
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Barely a week after surveys found that 89% of us want governments to do more - not less - to tackle climate change...
Tony Blair; Tone deaf!
Tony Blair; Tone deaf!
Happy Earth Day.
Let’s get a teeny bit braver!
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Let’s get a teeny bit braver!
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‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Happy Earth Day.
Let’s get a teeny bit braver!
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Let’s get a teeny bit braver!
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