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Natural Flood Defences and Biodiversity

I pottered up to parliament yesterday to listen to the All Party Parliamentary Group meeting on natural flood defences, and very interesting it was too. I was there to listen...

Hedge Planting In The Wet

Hedge and copse scheme, Cambridgeshire. By my reckoning, this bare root planting season the Habitat Aid hedge elves will have planted something over 130,000 plants around the country. There's some...

Flooding... Yet Again. Why Are We Ignoring Some...

It's not surprising that flooding is an issue much discussed hereabouts. I've blogged about it in 2013 and 2014, so hey, why not now too. It is a problem which...

Biosolar Roofs

What is a biosolar roof? Simple - it's a green roof with solar panels. I wish I'd known about biosolar roofs when we built our house; instead, we have a...

Rewilding

Rewilding seems to have started to gather momentum with the successful re-introduction of wolves into Yellowstone in the 90s. This led to all sorts of unsuspected trickle down effects and...

Hedgerow Harvest

There's never a really good time of year to flail a hedge, but it's particularly galling to see so much hedge cutting going on at this time of year. It...