My Part In Developing Climate Strategy
By Cllr Maya Evans Being part of the team developing the HBC climate strategy has sometimes been frustrating. Many ambitious ideas could not be included through lack of funding and limited power to effect behavioural change in both big business…
Coronavirus: The Lessons For Climate Change Policy
By Maya Evans In a week when the Coronavirus crisis sent millions into isolation in their homes, and the NHS was braced for an influx of patients, Planet Earth sent its loudest warning shot to date – human behaviour needs…
Climate Emergency
Maya Evans Has Her Say In HIP 145 Julia Hilton reviewed the pledges made by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) in its climate change motion passed in February 2019, and concluded that it “does not appear to be taking the declared…
Council’s Climate Pledges One Year On
By Julia Hilton On 13th February 2019 – exactly a year ago – Hastings Borough Council (HBC) passed a climate change motion, pledging to limit its own use of fossil carbon, encourage others to do the same, and set a…
Open Letter to Cllr Maya Evans
Solar arrays in Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve By Michael Moor, Chair, The Friends of Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve I am writing this open letter in response to your piece in Hastings Independent Press of 18 October about the…
Sunny Side Up
Local Solar Panels By David Dennis Should we site solar panel farms on greenfield sites? Certainly Hastings Borough Council (HBC) thinks we should. Councillor Andy Batsford has confirmed that there are active proposals to site solar panels at Hastings Country…
Gardening Guerrillas And Biophiles
Some lucky Hastings residents have been waking up to see flowers springing up in streets where once there were only weeds. Guerrilla Gardeners have arrived. These activists have been appearing all over Hastings and St. Leonard’s, often carrying seed bombs…
Council Meeting Opposes Modern Slavery
By Bernard McGinley At a full meeting of Hastings Borough Council on 23rd October, councillors debated a detailed motion proposed by leader Peter Chowney on modern slavery, made immediately topical by the grim news breaking on that day of 39…
Climate Justice and Modern Slavery
By Maya Evans “Slavery is the culture in other countries,” said Tory Cllr Mike Edwards during a full council motion discussing modern-day slavery in Britain. Actually, climate change is a class issue and an international social justice issue. It affects…
Labour Roots
HIP’s political editor, Alan Bolwell, reports from a Labour Party drive in the key marginal of Hastings and Rye East Sussex College, Hastings played host to a local Labour Roots Rally last Saturday as the party starts to mobilise its…