Always hungry
An ever-increasing number of people are having to rely upon food banks. Things are inevitably getting worsewith the cost-of-living crisis. Richard Price looks back at the history of malnutrition in the UK. During the 1930s many families suffered mental and…
Butterflies are free … but under threat
By Suzanne Kelly The world’s prominent scientists agree that climate change is all too real, and is threatening the world’s plant and animal ; Much attention has rightly been paid to the importance of bee species for pollination, and many…
Sustainable Fashion
By Suzanne Kelly As the world wakes up to the environmental changes that are upon us – floods, droughts, temperature extremes, rising sea levels – many of us have started to change our eating ; Is our food grown close…
The Cost of Energy Security
Kent Barker considers the government’s dilemma in trying to achieve energy security, minimise fuel poverty, and meet its climate change targets. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but energy prices seem to be rising at a rather alarming rate. Forecourt…
Virus ‘Kills Millions’ of Birds
By Richard Price With attention over the past two years focused on the Covid-19 pandemic, you may have missed the news of another virus that is spreading round the country – a new strain of avian flu known as the…
Healthy Living for Mental Health
Following this year’s Time to Talk day organised by Mind and Re-think Mental Illness, Raquel Palmer of Licenceto KALE in Robertson Street welcomes the initiative, but considers some of the missing elements in the current attitude to mental health. On…
Green Resolutions
I wonder how many people have made planet-friendly resolutions for 2022? It seems likely that reducing plastic use will feature high on many lists. For those raised in the shadow of the ‘make do and mend’ culture that lingered long…
The Raven – Evermore?
By Richard Price As a boy growing up in the 1970s and 80s I loved The Saga of Noggin the Nog, a classic of early children’s television. Noggin struggled against his wicked uncle, Nogbad the Bad, who was determined to…
Decorations are not just for christmas
By Suzanne Kelly Our Christmas decorations should all be down now, but here’s a fun and easy project to make a decorative wreath to hang outside to feed birds. Climate change, disappearing green spaces and the use of pesticides are…
Climate Change “Skulduggery” Row
The Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill is a Private Member’s Bill first presented in the UK Parliament in September 2020 by Green MP Caroline Lucas. Over the last year, it has gathered the backing of more than140 MPs and Peers…