Climate Plagues
DAVID EP DENNIS Over the course of history across the world, there have been terrible outbreaks of diseases, and the local climate plays a part in spreading sickness. Science can now tell us what causes these diseases and, hopefully, how…
Greening Hastings
IAN BUNCH argues that the council needs to step up to the mark and lead a volunteer army to plant trees in Hastings. Kent Barker Most of us love trees and understand the great benefits they can bring to help…
Climate Weirding
Local permaculturist TIM REDFERN has observed how, as the seasons go out of kilter, so too do the plants. Over the last three years I’ve been working in a series of gardens including my own. It’s been a trip observing…
Chickenpox Parties
KENT BARKER questions the logic behind the recommendation to add a chickenpox vaccine to the existing shots for young children. Was it just a coincidence that, in the week that the Covid enquiry heard evidence about chickenpox parties, the government’s…
Power to the People
KENT BARKER Will Hastings become part of the growing campaign to turn its streets and rooftops into mini renewable power stations? A number of local people have started to circulate news of other projects – particularly in East London –…
Amazing Colour
Roma Clark Working as a colour therapist and colour profiler I always find it so interesting learning about colour choices; how they affect our moods and reflect the people we are. Have you ever chosen your clothes the night before…
Environmental Vandalism
KENT BARKER reveals a new post-Brexit threat to honeybees, looks at polluted rivers in Kent and Sussex, and considers the international reaction to Rishi Sunak’s net zero reduction and oil expansion plans. Ba Kode The assault on the environment by…
Crystal Healing
ROMA CLARK For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by crystals, rocks and stones, picking them up from the pavement or the beach and digging them up from the garden even! Every once in a while,…
Inconvenient Facts
JONATHAN ANDREWS presents a personal take on the climate change debate and questions the assertion of NASA - the US science and technology agency - that 97% of scientists believe humans are causing global warming. Andreas Weith, Wikimedia Commons ‘Climate…
Abandoning Climate Hope
Kent barker Has the UK Government given up on Climate Change? The 2008 Climate Change Act commits the UK government to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 100% of 1990 levels (net zero) by 2050. But every pronouncement from…