Our Blog
Welcome to our blog
This is a collection of our thoughts around climate change and our community. We try to keep it updated monthly, but you know how it is… enjoy.
Keynsham Community Eco Festival
We are delighted to be able to share some more details for the upcoming Eco festival on the 17th & 18th of September. You can keep up to date through their Facebook page: Click here We will be there with a stall, come and say hello!
Beautiful weeds
I have been reading a book called Silent Spring. Published in 1962 by US scientist Rachel Carson, it inspired the modern environmental movement and sparked environmental protection laws across the world. Carson wrote that “the beauty of the living world I was trying...
Ecosystem restoration
It’s world environment day on June 5th, and to mark it, the United Nations Environment Programme is launching a decade of action on ecosystem restoration. Ecosystems support all life on Earth. The healthier our ecosystems are, the healthier the planet – and its...
Feeling positive
The clocks have gone forward, and we can all feel the benefits of more daylight. Our vulnerable members of society have been vaccinated against Covid-19, and this month – finally – we can meet up with friends and family again. I don’ t know if it’s because spring is...
COP26
In November, the UK hosts COP26, a summit of the 197 countries that are part of the UN’s climate treaty. Governments and negotiators will discuss how to prevent the climate crisis from causing even worse catastrophes than we’re already seeing across the world....
Sitting in nature
In a recent podcast, David Attenborough said that in the past half-century we have been given the mechanisms of poisoning and destroying nature beyond the powers of any human previously on Earth. We use this power to take what we want from nature without a care....
Hope for the future
It’s no exaggeration to say that 2020 was a terrible year, and I fervently hope that in 2021 we’ll turn the tide on coronavirus and be able to live freely again. We’re by no means out of the woods, but I believe there are many reasons to be optimistic, on top of the...