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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · Aug 17

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

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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · Jul 2

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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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · Jun 26

When it's time to love and let go...

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Let it go… when clutter is also emotional baggage

Most of us buy far more clothes than we'll ever wear, for all the wrong reasons, and a lot of this ends up burned or in landfill.

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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · Jun 22

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

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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · Jun 18

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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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · Jun 11

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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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · Jun 11

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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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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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · Jun 8

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

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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · Jun 7

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

greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · Jun 7

@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”

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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · Jun 4

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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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · May 31

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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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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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · May 29

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 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

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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · May 28

This.
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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’

Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid

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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · May 23

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

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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · May 22

Big decision; huge!
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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · May 22

🎉 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
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · May 21

"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

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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · May 19

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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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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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · May 18

“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

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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · May 9

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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#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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Richard Sims @simsre.bsky.social · May 4

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

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · May 2

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.

Chris Williams @chrisw100.bsky.social · May 2

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