Rachel Purdon

It's been absolutely fantastic to see people exploring the #Carbon garden over it's first weekend #KewGardens

28.07.2025 11:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There's also planting reflecting the climate stripes - which is quite hard to photograph (without a drone) so I also created my own personal interpretation of the changing climate during my lifetime! #climatestripes

28.07.2025 11:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This summer, come and visit the new #CarbonGarden at Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social 🌳
A garden that explores the carbon cycle, and how plants and fungi can be our allies in #climate repair. We hope it inspires, and serves as a positive hopeful space to learn & discuss climate adaptation/mitigation

28.07.2025 11:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Sorry people but there's a blandness to an AI authored LinkedIn post that is just ick 🤮

22.07.2025 19:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A handwritten document in ink titled 'Effects of Fog on Plants grown in the houses at Kew'. The photo is taken diagonally across the page so that sections of the lines are not within frame. The text reads as follows: 'The heavy fogs experienced in the last two or three winters injured many [p]lants in the houses at Kew. When thick [blank] occurred almost daily the injury it [blank] to many plants amounted practically [blank]. The leaves fell off, the [blank] point withered and [blank].'

A printed letter head of the National Smoke Abatement Society, located at Chandos House, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, SW1. The letter head lists the telephone line, as well as various members of the council (S N Duguid as Chairman, W R Martine and F J Redstone as Deputy Chairmen, Sir Ernest Smith as Hon. Treasurer and Arnold MArsh as General Secretary & Editor) The centre of the letter head is a side profile of a man with the motto 'Fumus Fugetur' underneath. The Reference on the letter reads: C/3/AM/JT.

A typescript document titled 'Damage to Plants at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew caused by the severe fog in Dec. 1952'. The photo is taken slightly diagonally with some words in the lines missing from the frame. The text reads as follows: 'is generally agreed that the fog in December ... dirty and that it caused more damage to .... The sooty deposits on the roofs of glasshouse... they are in most winters, and a rapid calculation... cost of cleaning some of the glasshouses in the ... alone was about 31. The houses in the .... are very small compared with those in other... the gardens, so the figures just quoted represents... of the total cost. No figures for the ... larger houses are at present available. Turn... themselves it should benoted tha tmost of those ... did not show any immediate unhealthy symptoms... were dormant. Evergreens were, however, coated... greasy deposit of soot, and, as it is not likely ... very readily by rain, it is evident that the ... is likely to be adversely affected during the ... because the stomata will be clogged with soot, ... the intensity of the light reaching the chloro... materially reduced. Some evergreens have sh... usual, and others, notably some of the Escall... patches on the leaves, or the leaves have ... and have assumed a scorched appearance. C... has been sustained amongst the alpin... or less dormant at the time ... information, supplied... respective departments... and Decorative.'

On #NationalCleanAirDay we wanted to show sources in our collections that can shed light on past research into air pollution & smog. For example, we have lists of damaged plants dating back to late 19th century, plus letters & press relating to the 1952 smog in London 👇 #KewLA #EnvHist

19.06.2025 08:30 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

This one'll get the attention of the people...?
💔🔥🌍 #ForTheLoveOf

19.06.2025 06:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🚲🚲 Half price entry if you cycle to #KewGardens tomorrow to celebrate #CleanAirDay 🚲🚲
Weather looks lovely for it! ☀️

18.06.2025 21:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gotta say I've been super impressed with the #OurBike cargo bike hire in Richmond - easy, affordable, fun, and look how many strawberries you can fit in a #cargobike 🤩👌🍓

14.06.2025 14:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A microscopic image showing several green, circular to oval-shaped cells of the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. The cells have a layered appearance and are viewed under an electron microscope. Clusters of smaller dark dots, likely bacteria or cellular fragments, appear near the larger cells.

Prochlorococcus, a marine bacterium that is only 0.5–0.7 micrometers wide, produces more oxygen than all tropical rainforests combined.

Every tiny organism plays a key role in our planet's health.

On #WorldOceanDay, see how UNEP works to #SaveOurOcean: bit.ly/3Qk34aI

07.06.2025 07:23 — 👍 79    🔁 41    💬 1    📌 4

Tulips bollards in Westminster to 'protect cyclists and bring joy' - BBC News The bollards in central London are designed to be more visible to separate traffic from cyclists.

Sometimes it's the little things 🌷 🚲💚 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

01.06.2025 19:02 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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01.03.2025 22:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Joyous #OrchidFestival at #KewGardens this year, celebrating the biodiversity of #Peru, and many community and scientific efforts to protect it. 💚

22.02.2025 08:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Drax is the subsidy show that goes on and on | Nils Pratley Government cranks handle again for group owning Yorkshire power plant because cheaper generating capacity not in place

Hmm, plenty to ponder here
#biomass #drax #CleanEnergy2030
www.theguardian.com/business/nil...

10.02.2025 23:30 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Aware there are worse things going on! ...but I was really trying to keep my phone going for more than 5 years and it's proving challenging...

30.01.2025 22:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think I've experienced a particularly unlucky triangulation of phone-SIM-geography but the 3G switch-off has really ruined my phone's connectivity including phone calls ⛔ 😶 #Fairphone #3G #NoSignal

30.01.2025 22:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

BOOM❗ The UK heat pump had a bumper year with 63% market growth.

Still a long way to go but if maintained in future years the UK would meet its 600,000 heat pumps installed per year in 2028 target.

29.01.2025 12:02 — 👍 216    🔁 49    💬 5    📌 10

Making the most of the free electricity from #Octopus this morning thanks to the power of #StormBert. Got the smart meter up to 6kW 💪⚡
...if only I still had an #EV!

24.11.2024 07:50 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0