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...
https://t.co/qfx7dEnb3U
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 😘
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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https://t.co/dvvsjWOGax
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
Quote of the day from @laurensunfl0wer at #earthfest: “The UK has been through harrowing austerity: 6m households live 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”
Let’s show our rivers some love
People-power can push government and business to clean up our waterways. A new column on how showing some love during #LondonRiversWeek could just be the start...
@Thames21 @SE_Rivers_Trust @LDN_environment
https://t.co/V9oR9MsDHW
Forage fiercer
Free read: greener’s monthly column on what to pick or gather. Less about food, more about getting out in - and reconnecting to - nature…
This month; lime blossom 💚
https://t.co/mC2DI7w8Cv
Methane from farms/industry/landfill is a massive problem. I've mapped the UK's emissions hotspots but there's a scrap over whether the official gov figures are worth the paper they're written on...
https://t.co/a1TgmjH5qC
Explore the map: https://t.co/Iq918iCpXY
This incredible Scottish find highlights how people and goods have always criss-crossed our little islands. In this early case, from across the Middle East… https://t.co/IJHDBTXSEV
A fab talk by writer @Missvolare about the magic of mushrooms and why we tell so few folk tales about named fungi 🍄 Including a cultural ick factor
@forteantimes@LondonFungi
Developing countries need 10-18 times more global public finance – US$215-387bn A YEAR – to adapt to floods, droughts, cyclones, wildfires, heat + other climate impacts hitting now
Yet we are spending less on climate adaptation
Not more
Sobering msg from @UNEP to @COP28
Love this reimagined London tube map. @tfl celebrates the engineering icons that built it.
Let’s hear it for our public transport!
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https://t.co/bx26ICOoZG