Earth Day – Councils need to help dispose of old Caravans

Tried many routes to find new home for old caravan but neglect means needs new chassis or much welding as well as interior rebuild. Even too far gone for a caravan breaker who suggested using a reciprocating saw rather than an angle grinder to tin open the metal exterior- safer and quicker. Little bit further […]

Thought the UK was part of the Paris Agreement?

Not very sensible to mine coal in 2021 – in own small opinion

What can you and i do to help reverse Global Warming and see more snowflakes

Today it snowed. The sky went grey and filled with a flurry of snowflakes but the ground wasn’t frosty enough so they didn’t settle – but they were there. Things that might help if we all did them

Mattress Toppers and Sheep Muzzling

Looking for something useful and cozy (maybe not exciting) for Christmas present – looked for new mattress topper and then hit the under world of sheep muzzling. Wool helps regulate body temperature. and is no longer valued as the wonderful product it is. Heard about farmers blending it with bracken to produce garden compost trying […]

Plane hit by lightning bolt 3 times – as it attempted to land at Heathrow

Plane trying to land at Heathrow Airport was hit 3 time by lightning bolts this weekend. Many signs if you want to see them – global warming, increasing rate of species becoming extinct around the World and more recently – our winter of floods followed by this plague taking many lives around the World. But […]

Fishermen of Hastings bad weather saying “If the bells of Bulverhythe ring – a storm is approaching

16th October 1987 – “At first milk bottles rolled and dustbin lids cartwheeled down the road. The wind increased in speed and violence, grabbing all in its path, shaking, twisting, tossing and roaring. Hotel roofs were torn asunder, caravan parks reduced to matchwood, cars crushed by falling trees and communications crippled.’ from Sussex Weather book […]

Retaining the Permafrost in Siberia to prevent Global Warming

We watched a documentary with Ben Fogle about a family of Russian scientists in Siberia who are attempting to restore the mammoth steppe ecosystem, which was dominant in the Arctic in the late Pleistocene. The hope – by doing this is to stop the melting of the permafrost which if it happened – would bring […]

The Lost Decade – John Vidal

Below a part of a report by John Vidal – The Lost Decade: How We Awoke To Climate Change Only To Squander Every Chance To Act – is hard to read but we have to and despite important issues we all have in our own lives – we need to try and bring about changes […]

Which Countries provide and receive most Foreign Aid

Conversation in our home about the problems of loss of life in the Channel seem to be about reinstating/increasing the Foreign aid to war torn developing countries who may be carrying the brunt of impacts of Climate Change in more developed countries. Following link is for 2017 and shows Countries donating and those receiving the […]

Order Order – Questions to Secretary of State of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

On the hotest day since records began, i was crawling around London on M25 from our home on fairly long journey across England. When i set off about 7am the temperature in my car was a reasonable 22 degrees but in two hours climbed to 32 and most of journey home an extrordinary 39 degrees. […]

How methane becomes fish food

Instead of counting sheep.. in winnie the pooh style – kept awake wondering what the equivalent of fish breathing and burping is – and finally gave up and got up and looked for explanation online and found this – it seems fish benefit from methane released by bacteria in lakes and the sea although […]

Almost not a cloud in the sky – roses are happy

Most days since mid May we have woken up to blue skies, gentle breeze and warm evenings turning into cooler nights. In our garden things you dont water like weeds – burn up. We’ve lost a few well loved shrubs but mostly the bigger ones and trees seem to be […]

Sunseed Desert Technology

Because background is in Horticulture and Environment became involved with Sunseed Desert Technology. My intention to go to Morocco to help Berber community especially ladies have own income and to give them independence by developing the potential for Argan seedlings by reconstructing a greenhouse to grow them inside. Talked to lots of people and advice […]

Arctic ice melt could trigger uncontrollable climate change at global level

“Arctic scientists have warned that the increasingly rapid melting of the ice cap risks triggering 19 “tipping points” in the region that could have catastrophic consequences around the globe” more

Five minutes to midnight

(Photograph John Mcconnico/The Guardian) “UK Met Office estimates 2016 will be at least as hot as 2015, which would mean the three hottest years ever had occurred in a row” more Increasing possibilities for Fracking in UK and cutting subsidies for Solar and other Renewable Energies – it doesnt make sense to me. Remember reading […]

Brighton and Lewes Downs Unesco Biosphere

Brighton and Lewes Downs are now a UNESCO World Biosphere site! (and Ditchling is included) We learnt yesterday from UNESCO that we have achieved our aim of the Brighton & Lewes Downs area being internationally recognised for: our high-quality environment everyone’s work to look after it our future ambitions to make it even better for people and nature We are […]

Beehives

Not long – London to Brighton Bike Ride

Ivy

Walking round where we live so many trees smothered in ivy and sooner or later will be brought down in a high wind. These trees smothered in ivy look dark and sad and nutrients being taken to support the ivy. Not sure if this problem is just very bad here in the UK or if its everywhere. […]

Arctic Ice has melted further and faster than ever before in human history

“a whopping 760,000 square kilometers less than ever recorded (which is 3.29 million square kilometers below the average minimum). Though images of polar bears and walrus stranded on melting ice-cubes pop up, and we morn the ever-increasing loss of their habitat; what happens at the poles will not stay at the poles. The affect of […]