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Foraging close to home
Lockdowns and restrictions have been a mixed bag as far as our environment is concerned. On the positive side, many of us have found more time and inclination to engage…
Opportunity to bloom for budding horticulturalists
Four young horticulturalists are being offered an opportunity to sow the seeds of a career in gardening and agriculture. Thanks to the Kickstart Scheme from the Department of Work and…
Every day should be Earth Day
MARTIN DICKIE examines global and local events that took place on 22nd April and asks whether Earth Day is still relevant in the 2020s. Like pen friends, Live Aid and…
Environmental Hot Air
Kent Barker examines the political parties’ commitments on the environment leading up to May’s local elections. This November Britain hosts the most important climate change conference since the 2015 Paris…
Air of Certainty
The environmental impact of UK ‘staycations’ in Hastings While the pandemic continues to delay the economic recovery of many UK tourist destinations, the impact it will have on traveller behaviour…
Volunteers needed for Get Growing’s free grow-your-own project
Over 1,000 ‘grow-your-own’ kits will be delivered to residents, schools and care homes as part of the Hands of Hope charity’s ‘Get Growing’ project. The free kits give people the…
Funding boost for Hastings leisure centres
Summerfields and Falaise leisure centres have moved a step closer towards reopening after the government pledged £180,000 from its National Leisure Recovery Fund to Hastings Borough Council. The leisure centres…
Virtual Covid Ward Eases Pressure on East Sussex Hospitals
The families of those recovering from coronavirus have praised a new virtual Covid ward which monitors a patient’s oxygen levels in their own home, and consequently frees up hospital beds.…
The Green Shoots of Spring
There’s an old saying that ‘the answer lies in the soil’. During WW2 people were encouraged to ‘dig for Victory’; during the Year of Lockdowns people headed for their gardens…
Back to school
Mental wellness website helps youngsters Children in East Sussex returned to school on Monday 8th March after what is now almost a year of disrupted learning. It’s been a difficult…
A Forum for a Better Future
By Martin Dickie The Common Treasury’s Hastings Emerging Futures project continued its series of future visioning workshops with an online event on Tuesday 23rd February titled Sustainable Hastings: Planting the…
Dr Energy
The task seems overwhelming! Can you tell me where I should startin my 200 year old house? From attendee at ESC webinar 1. A wet or damp building is less…
Burning Brexit Issues for Bees
By Kent Barker In a few weeks’ time millions of bees will emerge from hives across Sussex and southern England ready to pollinate our plants and provide us with honey.…
Lockdown Artists
During one of many dog walks in Alexandra Park I found myself in conversation with photographer Tim Clifton. We discovered a mutual admiration for kingfishers. Co-incidentally we had both had…
Dr Energy
What is the best thing you can do to save energy in an old home?Maria, Old Town Energise South Coast helps a lot of people with older homes locally and…
Trees not just for Xmas
Despite radical restrictions disrupting recent seasonal festivities, our enthusiasm for the traditional Christmas tree has not diminished. UK Sales of the festive fir usually average 8 million each year but…
Nuclear Power must double to meet ‘net zero’ targets
By Kent Barker The Dungeness nuclear power station was due back online this month (December) after a two-year ‘rest’. In fact the restart has been postponed until at least next…
Help save the rainforest
Local Greenpeace activists recently demonstrated outside Tesco stores in Hastings claiming the supermarket group is associated with deforestation. The protest is linked to Greenpeace’s new animation, Monster, in which a…
Seeing the wood AND the trees
As an antidote to long winter days stuck indoors, HIP looks at ways to enjoy our precious forests and woodlands. National Tree WeekThere’s still time to check out National Tree…
Dr Energy
The team at Energise Sussex Coast answer your home energy-related questions to help everyone to save money and keep warm as sustainably as possible. Is the Green Home Grant a…
Right to Roam – A modest proposal
By Kent Barker For ramblers and walkers the name Kinder Scout has a deep reverence. Hundreds gathered at this plateau in the Derbyshire Peak District in April 1932 for an…
Dr Energy
The team at Energise Sussex Coast answer your home energy-related questions to help everyone to save money and keep warm as sustainably as possible. What is the best way to…
Ore continues to Bloom
Local residents have expressed thanks to John Myers, head gardener at Fairlight Hall, for replanting the Ore Sign. John, whose employer supplied the plants, has previous experience planting the parterre…
Put on your walking shoes
1-2-3 Walks East Sussex is a Health & Wellness website regularly updated with direction and printer-friendly maps for short rambles around local green spaces. These are one, two and three-mile…
Rag Trade
Recycle and Raise Money is a new Hastings-based, clothes-reuse enterprise hoping to help local charities and schools raise funds. “Clothing has become disposable. As a result, we generate more and…
Cleaner, safer streets for St Leonards
Tidy Up St Leonards, a Safer Streets project partner, is improving the area for local businesses, residents and visitors. Safer Streets includes Sussex Police, Heart of Hastings, Hastings Borough Council…
Return to the wild
St Leonards residents Robin and Rachel Holtom visit Knepp Knepp Wildland is an inspirational environmental project near Horsham in West ; In the early 2000s Charlie Burrell and his wife…
DR ENERGY
Welcome to our new Dr Energy column written by the team at Energise Sussex Coast. In each issue of HIP, we will answer your home energy related questions. We hope this…
Green homes project
Hastings Borough Council has led a successful bid to the government’s Green Homes Grant fund to help households living in fuel poverty with home energy efficiency improvements. This is as…
Rising Seas, Changing Coastlines
By David E P Dennis This odd idea came to me a few years ago – but why would the people of Hastings and Bexhill want to move to Eastbourne?…
Casting light and bringing hope
Book review by Dave Young The 21st Century Revolution - A Call to Greatness by Bruce Nixon has two immediately obvious attributes: positivity and accessibility. Many recent tomes documenting the…
Back the wild
Allowing trees to naturally establish over huge areas could massively expand Britain’s woodlands more effectively, and at a fraction of the cost of tree planting according to research by Rewilding…
Greening Hastings
Local Green Party leader Julia Hilton will meet Hastings Council cabinet member for Environment, c, on 28th September as part of a continuing campaign against the use of glyphosate weed…
A bit of the old block
Look closely into a pothole outside The Royal In St Leonards and you’ll find evidence of a wooden road. Using cobbles - hard wearing but incredibly noisy - to surface…
Return to guided walks at Rye Bay nature reserve
Sussex Wildlife Trust is now running some small-scale events for members, school children, volunteers and the public, prioritising being able to deliver these in a way that is safe for…
Invisible Enemies
Not long ago few of us had heard of the coronavirus, and yet this curious entity has rapidly altered life as we know it. The spiky bugs have been around…
Saving nature Volunteers needed for Combe Valley
The charity Friends of Combe Valley (FoCV) is calling for volunteers to help maintain Combe Valley Countryside Park. By David E P Dennis Combe Valley, the vale of the Combe…
Rural Rides
Tips to stay safe and avoid traffic when cycling in Sussex Perhaps, like many during lockdown, you’ve got a new bike, or have refurbished an old one that’s been lurking…
Wild Nature
A new project launched later this year will tackle the nature and climate emergencies, and help boost green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis. Rewilding Britain says bold action is needed…
Roadside Rarity
One of the country’s rarest plants has successfully been reintroduced to a verge in East Sussex. Following a conservation project with the Species Recovery Trust, East Sussex Highways has confirmed…