Rachel Purdon
@rachelpurdon.bsky.social
Climate-change fighter 🌍 Nature admirer 🌿Both optimistic and outraged. 🫣 354ppm🔥Views mine, or someone else's.
This summer, come and visit the new #CarbonGarden at Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social 🌳
A garden that explores the carbon cycle, and how plants and fungi can be our allies in #climate repair. We hope it inspires, and serves as a positive hopeful space to learn & discuss climate adaptation/mitigation
A garden that explores the carbon cycle, and how plants and fungi can be our allies in #climate repair. We hope it inspires, and serves as a positive hopeful space to learn & discuss climate adaptation/mitigation
July 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This summer, come and visit the new #CarbonGarden at Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social 🌳
A garden that explores the carbon cycle, and how plants and fungi can be our allies in #climate repair. We hope it inspires, and serves as a positive hopeful space to learn & discuss climate adaptation/mitigation
A garden that explores the carbon cycle, and how plants and fungi can be our allies in #climate repair. We hope it inspires, and serves as a positive hopeful space to learn & discuss climate adaptation/mitigation
Sorry people but there's a blandness to an AI authored LinkedIn post that is just ick 🤮
July 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Sorry people but there's a blandness to an AI authored LinkedIn post that is just ick 🤮
Reposted by Rachel Purdon
On #NationalCleanAirDay we wanted to show sources in our collections that can shed light on past research into air pollution & smog. For example, we have lists of damaged plants dating back to late 19th century, plus letters & press relating to the 1952 smog in London 👇 #KewLA #EnvHist
![A handwritten document in ink titled 'Effects of Fog on Plants grown in the houses at Kew'. The photo is taken diagonally across the page so that sections of the lines are not within frame. The text reads as follows: 'The heavy fogs experienced in the last two or three winters injured many [p]lants in the houses at Kew. When thick [blank] occurred almost daily the injury it [blank] to many plants amounted practically [blank]. The leaves fell off, the [blank] point withered and [blank].'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h2nzrepsboow5qu42xtebgn/bafkreiguuruehirk4erzpw65srwpw4fwiakly3nzxcpsz724y3p6nqbhsu@jpeg)
June 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
On #NationalCleanAirDay we wanted to show sources in our collections that can shed light on past research into air pollution & smog. For example, we have lists of damaged plants dating back to late 19th century, plus letters & press relating to the 1952 smog in London 👇 #KewLA #EnvHist
This one'll get the attention of the people...?
💔🔥🌍 #ForTheLoveOf
💔🔥🌍 #ForTheLoveOf
Flavour of gin and tonic could be impacted by climate change, study finds
Flavour of gin and tonic could be impacted by climate change, study finds
Volatile weather patterns may be altering taste of juniper berries – a key botanical in the spirit – scientists say
The flavour of a gin and tonic may be impacted by climate change, scientists have found.
Volatile weather patterns, made more likely by climate breakdown, could change the taste of juniper berries, which are the key botanical that give gin its distinctive taste. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:27 AM
This one'll get the attention of the people...?
💔🔥🌍 #ForTheLoveOf
💔🔥🌍 #ForTheLoveOf
🚲🚲 Half price entry if you cycle to #KewGardens tomorrow to celebrate #CleanAirDay 🚲🚲
Weather looks lovely for it! ☀️
Weather looks lovely for it! ☀️
June 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
🚲🚲 Half price entry if you cycle to #KewGardens tomorrow to celebrate #CleanAirDay 🚲🚲
Weather looks lovely for it! ☀️
Weather looks lovely for it! ☀️
Gotta say I've been super impressed with the #OurBike cargo bike hire in Richmond - easy, affordable, fun, and look how many strawberries you can fit in a #cargobike 🤩👌🍓
June 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Gotta say I've been super impressed with the #OurBike cargo bike hire in Richmond - easy, affordable, fun, and look how many strawberries you can fit in a #cargobike 🤩👌🍓
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Prochlorococcus, a marine bacterium that is only 0.5–0.7 micrometers wide, produces more oxygen than all tropical rainforests combined.
Every tiny organism plays a key role in our planet's health.
On #WorldOceanDay, see how UNEP works to #SaveOurOcean: bit.ly/3Qk34aI
Every tiny organism plays a key role in our planet's health.
On #WorldOceanDay, see how UNEP works to #SaveOurOcean: bit.ly/3Qk34aI
June 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Prochlorococcus, a marine bacterium that is only 0.5–0.7 micrometers wide, produces more oxygen than all tropical rainforests combined.
Every tiny organism plays a key role in our planet's health.
On #WorldOceanDay, see how UNEP works to #SaveOurOcean: bit.ly/3Qk34aI
Every tiny organism plays a key role in our planet's health.
On #WorldOceanDay, see how UNEP works to #SaveOurOcean: bit.ly/3Qk34aI
Sometimes it's the little things 🌷 🚲💚 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tulips bollards in Westminster to 'protect cyclists and bring joy' - BBC News
The bollards in central London are designed to be more visible to separate traffic from cyclists.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Sometimes it's the little things 🌷 🚲💚 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Joyous #OrchidFestival at #KewGardens this year, celebrating the biodiversity of #Peru, and many community and scientific efforts to protect it. 💚
February 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Joyous #OrchidFestival at #KewGardens this year, celebrating the biodiversity of #Peru, and many community and scientific efforts to protect it. 💚
I think I've experienced a particularly unlucky triangulation of phone-SIM-geography but the 3G switch-off has really ruined my phone's connectivity including phone calls ⛔ 😶 #Fairphone #3G #NoSignal
January 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I think I've experienced a particularly unlucky triangulation of phone-SIM-geography but the 3G switch-off has really ruined my phone's connectivity including phone calls ⛔ 😶 #Fairphone #3G #NoSignal
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BOOM❗ The UK heat pump had a bumper year with 63% market growth.
Still a long way to go but if maintained in future years the UK would meet its 600,000 heat pumps installed per year in 2028 target.
Still a long way to go but if maintained in future years the UK would meet its 600,000 heat pumps installed per year in 2028 target.
January 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
BOOM❗ The UK heat pump had a bumper year with 63% market growth.
Still a long way to go but if maintained in future years the UK would meet its 600,000 heat pumps installed per year in 2028 target.
Still a long way to go but if maintained in future years the UK would meet its 600,000 heat pumps installed per year in 2028 target.
Making the most of the free electricity from #Octopus this morning thanks to the power of #StormBert. Got the smart meter up to 6kW 💪⚡
...if only I still had an #EV!
...if only I still had an #EV!
November 24, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Making the most of the free electricity from #Octopus this morning thanks to the power of #StormBert. Got the smart meter up to 6kW 💪⚡
...if only I still had an #EV!
...if only I still had an #EV!