One of my favourite TV programmes recently has been Jimmy Dohertys Farming Heroes. You don't get many TV programmes 'bigging up' farmers. I really liked the positive approach of the programmes. Farmers in this country seem to get a rough deal and it seems from what you hear that nothing positive ever happens for farmers. Each programme highlights particular farms doing things ...
New research from Worcester, Bosch Group (leading manufacturer of sustainable high efficiency heating and hot water solutions) has found that almost 70% of Brits are calling for more education when it comes to things like saving energy, with the majority (85%) expecting the Government to keep us informed. One in five of us are even in favour of fining people who don't use green methods.
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A bit late getting this post done. Was on holiday last week in sunny France. Spring into Action started on the 1st of May. It is being run by the BTCV. There are lots of events being run across the UK. All concerned with conserving the environment. Projects vary from tree planting to dry-stone walling, footpath construction to monitoring wildlife populations. BTCV project leaders are ...
The World Development Movement is running a series of debates about how big business can influence climates change. The series is called Turning Up the Heat.
You can turn up in person to the events in London (8th May), Cardiff (10th May) and Manchester (13th May) or you can watch and participate online - ...
A campaign being run by the WWF to get the Climate Change Bill strengthened. Apparently they are going to build a giant paper plane and boat and deliver them to Parliament. These will be covered with the names of people who want the bill strengthened. You can probably see where the 'Get on board' tag line comes from now! It's ...
The idea of this campaign is that on October the 15th loads of blogs will post articles about the environment - this should be pretty easy for me as this is what I usually do!