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Author Archives: Miles King
Upcycle Bungalow Land to build more homes
Bungalow Land (David Hunt [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons Britain and especially England needs more houses. Yes there are a million empty homes – some of which can be brought back into residential use easily (many cannot). But they aren’t … Continue reading
Posted in bungalows, greenspace, housing, public land
Tagged Brownfield land, Bungalow, greenfield land, Housing association, Nick Boles, Poundbury
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Chairs Past Present and Future
Stan Shebs [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or CC-BY-SA-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons Following on from Monday’s post, I thought I would look back at who has chaired the Council of Natural England, English Nature, the Nature Conservancy Council and – … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Sells, Natural England, NFU, Owen Paterson
Tagged Arthur Tansley, English Nature, Natural England, Natural Environment Research Council, Nature Conservancy, Nature Conservancy Council, NCC, Site of Special Scientific Interest, West Sedgemoor, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
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Come in and have a look around
Wikimedia Commons: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine This is my 78th post since I started blogging again, in May this year. I’ve been blogging like mad over the past three or four weeks – thanks to everyone … Continue reading
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Tagged Blog, Facebook, FAQs Help and Tutorials, Google Reader, Hyperlink, Miles King blog, Reading (process), Social media, Twitter
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The New Natural England Chair: Andrew Sells
The experience of having been present and witnessed a Natural England Board meeting is still fresh in my mind. I was struck in particular at how important a role the chair, Poul Christensen, played in helping his fellow Non-ex members … Continue reading
Set our Landscapes Free
Species need landscape features to shift at differing speeds. Shifting Patterns in Time and Space Some species depend on constantly and fairly rapidly changing circumstances such as the creation and loss of bare ground, changes in the inundation status of … Continue reading
Public Goods for Public Money
“Public Goods for Public Money” has become a bit of a mantra, not just for me, but for a wide range of organisations and individuals fed up with one failed reform of the Common Agricultural Policy after another. I was … Continue reading
A Robo – Phantasy
This blog appeared on yesterday’s Woodland Trust blog , but I thought I would recycle it today. A new approach to Forest “Management” The Holocene Forest (which existed from around 10000 years before present to 7000 bp ) was a … Continue reading
The Death of Greening
Remember the European Commission’s much vaunted proposals to “green” the Common Agricultural Policy? The idea was that, to show the European public (who pay for the farming subsidies the CAP hands out) that their money really was being spent on … Continue reading
Owen Paterson: Enlightenment Man
Owen Paterson is Enlightenment Man in the modern day. OP believes that the environment needs to be improved and repeats this at every opportunity. He also promotes individualism and the public benefits derived from private profit-making. This is his central … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, badgers, biodiversity offsetting, Charities campaigning, conservation, deregulation, enlightenment, environmental policy, ethics, George Monbiot, management, neoliberalism, Owen Paterson
Tagged George Monbiot, Golden Rice, Mycobacterium bovis, Owen Paterson, Paterson, Rightmove, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, RSPB, the enlightenment
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vanishing meadows – less than 5000ha left in England Natural England come in for a great deal of stick from other conservationists – Walshaw Moor is a good recent example. But I’d like to praise them for some … Continue reading
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