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Extracting peat destroys one of our best carbon stores and trashes a unique, biodiverse habitat. Doing so to grow pretty flowers is hugely selfish. Ever heard of the climate and ecology crisis?
Come on, RHS, show some spine!

vibrant meadow with various wildflowers in bloom. The foreground features a Common Spotted Orchid, surrounded by green grass and yellow flowers. In the background, there are more purple flowers on long stems against a clear blue sky with a few wispy clouds.

The image shows a close-up view of a meadow with various wildflowers and grasses. A burnet moth is perched on a rough hawkbit flower. The background features more wildflowers and grasses, with trees visible in the distance under a partly cloudy sky.

The image shows a field of meadow buttercup in bloom. The flowers are small, with delicate petals and are densely packed, creating a vibrant yellow sea. The background is blurred, emphasising the foreground flowers.

This #NationalMeadowsDay, we're celebrating the UK’s irreplaceable meadows and how much they provide for us and for nature. But they need our help now more than ever. Find out more👉 https://loom.ly/2QdMwG8

📷 Joe Costley (1) Chris Harris (3)

How a £1.5bn ‘wildlife-boosting’ bypass became an environmental disaster A14 in Cambridgeshire promised biodiversity net gain of 11.5%, but most of the 860,000 trees planted are dead. What went wrong?

How a £1.5bn ‘wildlife-boosting’ bypass became an environmental disaster www.theguardian.com/environment/...

❌ Say no to plastic grass ❌
-creates plastic pollution
-loss of habitat
-loss of co2 sink
-inc flood risk
-inc carbon
-bad for soil, bugs, worms
Fake grass is the last thing we need in a biodiversity crisis which is why I’m calling for it to be phased out as we #messupbritain for nature 💚🐝🌻

On Your Bike – Book Review – Green Christian Green Christian

On Your Bike: Reflections of a Pedal Pilgrim, John B. Thomson, April 2024. Darton, Longman and Todd, ISBN: 978-1-913657-90-1, 174 pages. RRP £12.99

Book Review by Steve Retout

I'll name that plant in one.. 😊

We've been at St Albans Cathedral this week, urging them to stop banking with Barclays UK - the biggest funder of fossil fuels in Europe.

7 cathedrals have already pledged to switch, and recently Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, called on cathedrals to..

A crucial petition needs just 1,103 more signatures to get a response from the Government - could you help to get it over the line? ✍️ A practical roadmap for returning chalk streams to health has been abandoned, join us in asking the Government to reconsider: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

By becoming a Watering Champion, you can join our urban regreening mission from anywhere in the UK!

Young trees need our support during the summer months, will you sign up to give them the water they need until the end of September?

Find out more 👉 www.treesforstreets.org/watering-cha...

Some of my best friends are corvids.

Book cover with yellow and black border and white background. Black title: "Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile. Sarah Goodyear Doug Gordon Hosts of The War on Cars Podcast and Aaron Naparstek" Graphic shows yellow traffic light with vines on it.

Have a great holiday weekend, everyone! We're signing off for a few days. In the meantime, please pre-order our new book, "Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile," coming from Thesis / Penguin Random House, in October.

www.lifeaftercars.com

PARTICIPANTS WANTED for my Folklore Studies dissertation! I'm exploring human relationships with the Sussex woodland. Stories, knowledge, memories, experiences - I want to hear from you! Please complete and share my survey. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/herts/the-...

A bollard covered with stickers, including one that says cars ruin cities.

Unofficial evidence of @thewaroncars.bsky.social spotted in Hamburg.

Resist the machine!

Congratulations!

Resist the machine!

Screenshot of Instagram story from nerd4cities that says "When you're a cool influencer, people send you advance copies. Picture is a book cover for "Life After Cars," with a yellow border and white background with black lettering with an illustration of a traffic light with vines on it.

This is very cool to see. We haven’t even held a physical copy of the galley yet!

Pre-order Life After Cars wherever you buy books or ask you local library to get a copy.

More info at www.lifeaftercars.com

Consider introducing yellow archangel into a shaded part of your garden, it looks great & native bees love it! @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social

They can forget a second term.

I'm running a village wildlife garden competition, and I'm looking for a list of scoring criteria. Can anyone help?

The extent to which car drivers are sold a chunk of metal which will sit still doing nothing for most of its life, costing them cash and that great privilege of participating in traffic jams.

The stunning Spring blooms that folklore says you should never bring inside The hawthorn bush looks amazing in May but for hundreds of years families resisted the temptation to pick its flowers

The stunning Spring blooms that folklore says you should never bring inside #Folklore
www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/fam...

Another week ahead of sun and hot temperatures.
In #Worthing we’ve only had one period of heavy rain and a few showers since January.
Scary and hard for the plants and wildlife.
Please leave out water for birds.
#drought
#climatebreakdown

Bloody hell! What a world we live in 😱

Join the AI Resistance movement!

Green hedge against blue sky

Hedgerows are one of the most important habitats we have, providing food and shelter for many creatures. But we’ve lost thousands of miles of hedgerow since the 1950s. So please plant a hedge, to help wildlife, people and planet!
#NationalHedgerowWeek
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/hedges.html

Two men found guilty of felling Sycamore Gap tree Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, found to have criminally damaged tree and Hadrian’s Wall

Some conclusions from this dismal episode:
* heritage trees need listing & strong legal protection
* a sense of nature/the living world as disposable, even laughable, runs deep
* “Far from being the big men they thought they were…they were rather pathetic.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...