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…
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 act of mass disobedience. Angered that the moorlands were 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. What is the best way to heat one room when working from home? From Tim, St…
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 carpet bedding at Kew Gardens, so was the ideal person…
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 routes, intended to help walkers notice nature, enjoy exercise and…
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 more textile waste. A family in the western world throws…
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 (HBC), the Business Crime Reduction Partnership, Neighbourhood Watch and Tidy…