Right now is the showiest time of the year for two very worthy but perhaps unspectacular shrubs: Gray Dogwood (Cornus racemosa) and Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa).
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Smallholder farmers in Africa are already aware that the climate is changing. For many, the growing seasons are becoming shorter and more difficult to plan, because of erratic and unpredictable weather including droughts and floods. Often this means that crops fail or yields are lower and livelihoods are impacted with less produce to feed the […]
This post is a little different – a little more personal, a little more wide-ranging…but then that’s what Liverpool can do to you. It’s my wife’s home town (she’s asked me to point out that it’s actually a city with, as they’ll tell you, a cathedral to spare) and a long weekend last month was […]
via Municipal Dreams goes to Liverpool, part I — Municipal Dreams
In 2013 we brought you our six favourite TEDx talks about food security, which we followed with 9 more in 2014. This time, to celebrate World Environment Day on June 5th we bring you some of our favourite TED talks about climate change, biodiversity and the environment. We’d love for you to share your favourites […]
via Eight TED talks about the environment — One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?
There’s a new playground in our neighbourhood and the kids are flockin’ to it. It’s shiny-off-the-shelf with multicoloured artifical turf. There are climby things, swings, yellow wind socks on poles and a moulded plastic percussion station. It’s a prefab wonder replicated in numerous jurisdictions across the continent. It’s after supper and our guys are clamouring […]
Today we returned to the Dorothy Clive Gardens to see what was going on in May and to see what had changed since our last visit in March. We had to miss out on our planned April visit due to commitments of giving talks to garden groups and opening our own garden. It was worth […]
John Beech – Land Management Adviser
Currently this National Park Authority has two strategic priorities: one is to promote the North York Moors and the other is to improve the connectivity of habitats in order to benefit the biodiversity and landscape of the area, and mitigate the encroaching impacts of climate change.
Habitat connectivity features quite heavily on our Blog; that’s because it’s important to us. Habitat connectivity is the main driver for the work of the Conservation Department. It’s generally accepted that some of the most (ecologically) important habitats within our countryside have declined and fragmented over the decades and good quality habitat now tend to only exist in isolated pockets across the landscape. The first step is to conserve these remnants and then go on to establish connections, buffers, corridors, stepping stones – linking and increasing the habitat resource and therefore its sustainability into the future. These connections, buffers…
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Many of the politicians fighting Australia’s election campaign talk about the economy and immigration but the world is listening for what they say about the impact of climate change. If the rest of the world could vote in next month’s Australian election, there would almost certainly be one issue that would be raised to the […]
Does anyone remember a series of Dr. Who episodes called “The Seeds of Doom”?
The gardens at Ninfa, near RomeVilla d’Este, TivoliCastel Gandolfo, near Rome – the formal gardens at the Papal PalaceLa Mortella, IschiaGiardino Ravino, IschiaA peak inside some of the gardens I’ve been visiting in Italy this past week, from the grandeur of Villa d’Este and the gardens at the Papal Palace of Castle Gandolfo outside Rome, to…
via Thoughtful Thursday – A taste of Italy — The Galloping Gardener
Old School Garden 