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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

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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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.

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

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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

A slam-dunk by Sally Rooney.

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.

Walking with cuckoos, or things we've loved and lost
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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 😘

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

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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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

This would be a game-changer. Ban bottom trawling *and* deepsea mining

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
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@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”

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

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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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’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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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

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..?

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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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

Sad news; a great photographer and an Earth protector who did so much to restore the land he lived on. Rest in power

Big decision; huge!
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Are you ready to grow wilder? Postcards from managing an urban garden for nature, climate resilience and joy

"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."

To be or not to be... greener On renewal, rebirth and regeneration - here's what I've learned from starting over.

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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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

“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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#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 ...

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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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.
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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.

Climate experts and politicians round on Tony Blair for ‘wrong message’ Former Labour PM accused of ‘handing talking points’ to Tories and Reform after saying net zero strategy faltering

Barely a week after surveys found that 89% of us want governments to do more - not less - to tackle climate change...
Tony Blair; Tone deaf!

‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it? Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

Happy Earth Day.
Let’s get a teeny bit braver!

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Red mason-bee day, UK.
All feels right with the world 🐝

PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online

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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.

Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

Power-sector CO2 hits ‘all-time high’ in 2024 despite record growth for clean energy  - Carbon Brief Global power-sector emissions hit an “all-time high”, despite solar and wind power continuing to grow at record speed, according to analysis from Ember

More green energy. But…

Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal The extinct giant canids were a remarkable example of convergent evolution

Dire wolves were not close relatives of gray wolves. They last shared a common ancestor more than 5 million years ago. What Colossal has done is make something new and slapped a dire wolf sticker on it, as if an organism equals a hypothetical genome.

Soil at Somerset House. A fascinating glimpse of the worlds below.