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 Seeds for a Better Future Together. The evening opened with…
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 energy efficient than a dry one. This is because energy…
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. This year, though, they face an existential threat asa result…
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 our first sighting of the bird many years earlier, from…
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 they are usually more difficult to make energy efficient. Bear…
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 by early December 2020 growers were predicting sales of up…
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 February while the company, in its own words ‘remediates’ issues…
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 jaguar turns up in a boy’s kitchen to tell him…
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 Week - the UK’s largest annual tree celebration, marking the…
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 good deal? Colin, St Leonards The Green Home Grant is a…