https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/31/sunak-uk-oil-subsidy-could-have-insulated-2m-homes-says-thinktank

Some (partly) good news.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/30/g7-countries-to-stop-funding-fossil-fuel-development-overseas?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-polluted-babies-millions-dead-scientists.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

https://twitter.com/PCairnsPhoto/status/1531188953549885441

https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/10/27/restoring-whales-to-their-pre-hunted-numbers-could-capture-1-7-billion-tonnes-of-co2-a-yea

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/28/beekeepers-and-communists-how-environmentalists-started-a-global-conversation?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/26/big-tobacco-is-killing-the-planet-with-plastics-no-smokescreen-should-hide-that-acc?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/festival-of-national-nature-reserves/

The first was in Dorset, this is in Somerset. Others are planned for the Peak District, Norfolk and somewhere else that I can’t remember. Seems a good move.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-super-national-nature-reserve-created-to-protect-rare-wildlife

https://www.positive.news/society/positive-news-stories-from-week-21-of-2022/

https://www.positive.news/society/the-rio-de-janeiro-garden-that-saves-lives/

https://www.globalwitness.org/en/blog/bidens-executive-order-on-forests-can-help-stop-wall-street-from-financing-deforestation/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/27/national-farmers-union-funding-legal-challenges-to-curbs-on-river-pollution?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco

http://littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/grow-your-own-bird-food.html

https://www.rewildingmag.com/no-mow-may-downside/?fbclid=IwAR0GQvPs_Te2laV-iBX_RlXfugp5li1RJbprx1ZlQXmFxsETni5-XdYT3kU

Something more uplifting.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/may/26/it-looks-beautiful-uk-gardeners-leaving-lawns-uncut-no-mow-may-

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/11/ministry-of-defence-under-fire-for-inventing-rules-wildlife-haven-middlewick-ranges?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/20/cuckoo-cheating-by-nature-nick-davies-review

https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/cleanair?utm_source=ehq_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ehq-Have-your-say-on-our-proposals-to-help-improve-air-quality-tackle-the-climate-emergency-and-reduce-traffic-congestion&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=website&utm_source=ehq

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/25/butterfly-species-uk-vulnerable-extinction-conservation-red-list?CMP=share_btn_tw

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/04/none-of-sainsbury-s-flexible-plastic-recycled-in-the-uk/?fbclid=IwAR1J_8Mp6-kG9xko7q4Jv5276qXgom76RZRxnwUi-PKaTnJqpWPSUBY1bAk

https://www.positive.news/environment/what-would-happen-if-unloved-public-spaces-became-community-farms/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/20/hard-right-tories-push-delay-environmental-land-management-scheme-brexit

By using the Ecosia search engine, you will be helping their project to plant trees. They do not profit from your searches, they donate all the money they make from advertising* to climate action; 80% of this funds tree planting projects. To date they have planted 150 million trees. They do not collect data about you.
* Approx 45 clicks funds a tree.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/13/new-58m-tree-disease-lab-sends-out-sos-for-public-to-report-pests-aoe

Haven’t had time to read this yet but thought it might be of interest.

https://www.positive.news/economics/can-ethical-investing-help-save-the-planet/

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/24/costa-rica-has-reaped-dividends-protecting-biodiversity-and-making-it-accessible?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/hs2-comes-under-fire-for-euston-waste-removal-plan-28-04-2022/

I was encouraged by a conversation I had this week with someone who had been chatting to a friend of theirs whose job is advising companies on sustainability issues. He is massively overworked because the demand is exceptional at the moment. Moreover these companies are looking for real improvements and not interested in greenwashing. That sounds promising to me. He thinks there’s a lot of negativity out there about business and that makes folks just feel things are hopeless so they give up.

I found this interesting.
https://www.positive.news/environment/the-best-ways-to-get-cars-out-of-cities/

https://www.positive.news/society/positive-news-stories-from-week-17-of-2022/

I seem to remember supporting this campaign a very long time ago.
https://www.curlewaction.org/gcse-in-natural-history-confirmed/

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/23/key-to-winning-climate-debate-isnt-economics-its-health?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

https://www.letstalkrubbish.london/?

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-plant-derived-sustainable-plastic-is-tough-as-bone-mit/

https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/earth-day-zero-waste-challenge-recycling-carbon-neutral-climate-b995585.html

All this means little to me but might to others. Download, don’t stream, is the message.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/earth-day-climate-change-streaming-downloading-ajr-1339228/

The promise of permanent Fixing Factories hasn't taken long to become a reality. The first one opens in Brent on Saturday 23rd April and the Camden one is due to follow suit in a couple of months' time. The Brent one, hosted by the local collective waste authority, won't resemble a Restart event so much but be more focused on electronics recycling.
The Camden one, in the high street, will include more familiar functions. I do hope that this pattern takes root in far more of our underused high streets and that the recycling model is taken up by other collective waste authorities. It's just what our big cities need.
The Restart Project is asking people for their ideas about how to make the best use of these new ventures, so there's also a comments facility at https://therestartproject.org/news/brent-fixing-factory

A book to check out. Gets good reviews.

https://skepticalscience.com/the-new-climate-war-our-reviews.html

Sounds good. I think we need more initiatives like this which hopefully (that word again!) will force manufacturers and retailers to think about the sustainability of their products or else pay for the damage they cause. Hope UK follows suit.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/03/31/fast-fashion-will-be-held-accountable-for-clothing-quality-toxic-chemicals-and-waste-says-?

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-world-record-perovskite-renewables-b2057236.html

https://www.theguardian.com/food/ng-interactive/2022/apr/14/climate-crisis-food-systems-not-ready-biodiversity?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

We’ve been buying Who Gives a Crap. Our first box of 48 bamboo rolls (best quality) lasted us a year + and we were pleased with it but I was rather concerned about it being shipped long distances. So the next box of 48 we bought from them was not bamboo but UK recycled office type paper. Verdict was less favourable, and it is running out at about 11 months. So now I’ve gone for a box of 24 bamboo rolls from Naked Sprout, still being shipped, I know, but these are unbleached, which seems safer for us and the environment (perhaps). They use much less packaging than WGAC. But as I feared they’re an unpleasant dirty beige colour. I have to say it does put me off. Stupid of me I know.

No more time left. Climate change report.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60984663

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcnwAwq2uhs&ab_channel=Possible
Worth a watch/listen if you want to replace your boiler with a heat pump.

I came across this company whilst scrolling through Instagram. Good concept and clever name ie Cockney rhyming slang for gloves.
"The Turtle Doves Story" https://www.turtle-doves.co.uk/pages/turtle-doves-story

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/29/bitcoin-reduce-energy-consumption-climate-groups?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

It’s the last Saturday in March so it must be Earth Hour. It’s a growing ‘movement’.
https://www.earthhour.org/our-mission

Hi, has anyone had a heat loss survey done on their house? Our heating engineer recommended one when I asked what I can do to reduce heating costs.