Category: Climate change and gardening


Conserving Water

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12/08/2014

Sophie Hudson's avatarThe Forget-me-Not Cultivation Blog

You and I both know it’s important to treat water with the up most respect, it is after all our most basic and needed resource on the planet.

Yet I just didn’t know how needed this resource is.  I just imagined that seeing as we get rain in this country (usually quite a lot in some places) that we only ever had to worry about conserving it when Britain was in the mists of a belonged drought.

How wrong I was

Take a look at this infographic below:

Photographic courtesy of Easy Watering

There are two big things that really stood our for me on the above poster:

  • That we use 70% more water than we did 40 years ago
  • London is drier than Istanbul

Both the above have come from reliable sources (although I’m still trying to track down  year by year household water usage data), but I was…

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PicPost: We Are Swaling

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Swales used to alleviate surface water flooding at Long Fellow Creek, via LA Network

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Hydropower returns to Cragside and lights up history

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30/07/2014
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Add Agrivoltaics To Your Green Vocabulary

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Organikos's avatarOrganikos

agrivoltaics Farming food and fuel, side by side

Thanks to Conservation, and particularly Courtney White, for this synopsis:

What is the best way to utilize sunlight—to grow food or to produce fuel?

For millennia, the answer was easy: we used solar energy to grow plants that we could eat. Then, in the 1970s, the answer became more complex as fields of photovoltaic panels (PVPs) began popping up all over the planet, sometimes on former farmland. In the 1990s, farmers began growing food crops for fuels such as corn-based ethanol. The problem is that the food-fuel equation has become a zero-sum game.

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Cunning Self Watering Project

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18/07/2014

As today looks like it’s going to be the hottest of the UK year to date (exceeding 30 degrees celsius in some areas), this brilliant project of a ‘self watering system’ by a chap called Guillermo for his polytunnel deserves an airing- it may inspire you to do something similar in your garden?cunning self watering system from Guillermo via Vertical Veg

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With hot and humid weather could we see a ‘Spanish Plume’?

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15/07/2014

Met Office Press Office's avatarOfficial blog of the Met Office news team

Over the next few days increasingly warm and humid air moving up from the continent will see UK temperatures on the rise, with the warmest days of the year so far expected.

Temperatures in the south east of the country could climb to the low 30s Celsius by Friday, while other parts of England and Wales are likely to see temperatures in the mid to high 20s.

These very warm conditions will be accompanied by a close and humid feel in the air, which could make it feel quite uncomfortably warm in places – particularly during the nights.

While there is a good deal of dry and fine weather in the next few days, there is also the chance of seeing some heavy rain and thunderstorms as we go into the weekend.

Friday may see an area of thundery showers moving north east across parts of England and Wales.

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Weather and wildlife – a review of the year so far

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02/07/2014
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Green screens key to war on air pollution says Staffordshire University

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30/06/2014

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Green screens will have a bigger and more instant impact on improving air quality than green roofs says Professor John Dover, Head of The Science Centre at Staffordshire University whose team have set up a study to investigate the value of green screens in rapidly mitigating pollution hotspots.

The University, which has a dedicated Green Wall Centre, has been pioneering research since 2010 to understand how vertical greening of spaces can influence biodiversity and capture micro-pollutants thereby improving air quality, wellbeing and human health.  This latest study into the value of particulate pollution mitigation by green screens and other hedging material will use the Science Centre’s environmental scanning electron microscope to quantify the ability of green screens to capture particulates and experimental screens will be installed in particulate hotspots in roads around Stoke-on-Trent to investigate the strategic placement of green screens

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Professor John Dover who is supervising the project said…

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From dust bowl to carbon sink: the potential of conservation agriculture

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27/06/2014

canwefeedtheworld's avatarOne Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?

ID-10049859Two new videos exploring conservation agriculture were recently shared. The first looks back to the US dust bowl in the 1930s that motivated the development of no-till farming and conservation agriculture. The second looking at how conservation agriculture can help in practice and how we can prevent the next dust bowl in the Russian Steppes through sustainable land management strategies.

Changing an Age-Old Practice Helps New Generation of Farmers, is the title of a new video created by the World Bank. Tilling of soil is done to prepare the seed bed, release nutrients and control weeds but tilling can also lead to soil erosion, causing the loss of top soil that degrades farmland and causes sedimentation in waterways. In the lower Mississippi River removal of sediment costs over $100 million each year. In the Great Plains of the US around the 1930s the dust bowl winds eroded…

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PicPost: Organic Dreamscape

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12/06/2014

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