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Miliband and Truss combine to declare EU best for climate action. #EUreferendum
Ed Miliband surfaced from the political ocean depths today, to join forces with Liz Truss. There’s a sentence I never expected to write. With Caroline Lucas and former LibDem energy minister Ed Davey, they have … Continue reading
Posted in Birds Directive, dogs, EU referendum, greenspace, housing, Liz Truss, lowland heathland
Tagged cats., EU referendum, Liz Truss, lowland heathland, Michael Gove
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The Getting of Natural History: Guest blog by Mark Fisher
It’s a pleasure to post a guest blog written by Dr. Mark Fisher, Honorary Research Fellow at the Wildland Research Institute, University of Leeds. Mark writes a fascinating blog called Self Willed Land. The post, which was first published on … Continue reading
Posted in Mark Fisher, natural history
Tagged Mark Fisher, natural history, nature deficit disorder, Self willed Land
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Pythagoras, Bean Counters and Natural Capital
“have nothing to do with the bean.” We are all familar with Pythagoras who discovered that, for a triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is the sum of the squares of tte opposite sides. What we may not realise is … Continue reading
Rampisham Down: British Solar Renewables have a digital spring clean
With only a little over 4 months to go before the Rampisham Down Public Inquiry gets underway, British Solar Renewables has been having a digital clear out, getting rid of information that might not put it in the best light … Continue reading
Floodplain Meadows: Beauty and Utility
“In Shakespeare’s play Henry the Fifth, there is a scene, after the battle of Agincourt, where the captured Duke of Burgundy is lamenting the cost of war. He does this by conjuring up before our eyes a picture of what … Continue reading
Support the NFU as they campaign for Britain to stay in the EU
Is this the most significant moment in the EU referendum campaign so far? The National Farmers Union, representing 50,000 of the largest and wealthiest farming landowners in England (and Wales), who receive the lion’s share of all subsidies provided to … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, Common Agricultural Policy, EU referendum, NFU
Tagged common agricultural policy, EU referendum, NFU
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It’s new moon: a goat must be sacrificed
Some random musings on natural capital. Sacrifice may have been a way for societies to avoid creating ecological debt. Ecological debt is another way of describing the damage to nature inflicted by human activity. Arguably ecological debt starts when modern … Continue reading
Posted in ecological debt, economics, Natural Capital, sacrifice
Tagged ecological debt, Natural Capital, sacrifice, tithe
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Sheep Farmers fire dud in Lynx reintroduction battle
The National Sheep Association (NSA) is a charity, originally founded in 1892 as the National Sheep Breeders Association (stop sniggering at the back). It has just over 6000 members, and as such is a very small charity, if measured by … Continue reading
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Tagged Lynx, National Sheep Association Sheep
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Overlooked urban nature: the surprising history of some early Spring flowers
We’ve been away for a Spring break in Paris, which was lovely. Here’s a piece I write a few weeks ago, which was published on the excellent Nearby Wild blog….. Early spring is possibly my favourite time of year. … Continue reading
Farm Minister Eustice speaks on Farmers for Britain platform.
Yesterday Farm minister George Eustice spoke again about what a UK farming policy might look like, post-Brexit – at the launch of Farmers for Britain. One has to assume that Eustice is right behind FFB, if he is willing to … Continue reading
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