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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Between 6th and 8th January 2022, Dorset Mind teamed up with their charity partners at Stewarts Garden Centres and Maidmans Moving and Storage to collect and recycle Christmas trees from over 500 homes in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole areas.   For a £10 donation, trees were collected and recycled into 4 tonnes of wood chippings that Dorset Mind...
Hundreds of tonnes of climate-warming methane is being released into the atmosphere by the UK’s longest continuously producing onshore oil well, despite curbs ordered by the environmental regulator. The Kimmeridge site in Dorset, operated by Perenco, has legally emitted methane directly into the atmosphere since oil production began in the...
“We have to move quickly. What we do in the next three to four years, I believe, will determine the future of humanity”. Sir David King, 2021. Emma Smart is expected to read the following statement at HMP Bronzefield on behalf of the Insulate Britain supporters released today. I have been...
Industry experts and released prisoners make the case for Insulate Britain’s demand for a fully funded national retrofit effort in the UK Six people from from Insulate Britain are due to be released from prison tomorrow after serving half the sentences handed down to them by the High Court last...
The Netflix movie about a slow-motion planet-killing climate change metaphor has been the talk of the twittersphere since its release on Christmas eve.  The critics didn’t like it, but many people - including climate scientists, journalists and activists - did like it, and things got pretty heated when it was suggested by some (including the filmmakers!)...
This just about sums up the absolute nonsense of the times. Target activists whilst agreeing with them. https://twitter.com/Zero_4/status/1479227995021881345?s=20 Of course those who are awake are talking about insulating homes and many other solutions. Only the walking dead are prattling on about the nonsense they are served up to distract them. And when in...
Happy New Year! A new year to displace one of the twenty previous warmest years globally since records began: the consecutive last nineteen, or 1998 with its strong El Niño. The summer of 2021 saw the Met Office in the UK issue what was its first-ever “extreme heat warning.” Over in...
Continuing on from Bournemouth Pier the cliffs are dominated by gently dipping sandstone (rather soft!) of the Boscombe Sand Formation deposited in the Tertiary (Palaeogene) around 40-49 million years ago in a coastal environment with beaches and barrier islands. The exposure is not too good owing to vegetation cover. The view below...
The ease with which I registered my dead goldfish as a waste disposer shows how total regulatory collapse has opened the door to organised crime. It’s a tragic story, with a happy ending. Until I was seven, I had a goldfish called Algernon. He wasn’t the most exciting pet, but...
A Bournemouth school pupil has received a letter of support by Her Majesty The Queen and A-list celebrities in her efforts to launch a Charitable Trust to plant more trees. Nine-year-old Issey, a Year 5 pupil at Bethany C.E Junior School in Bournemouth, along with her Mother, Janine Purser, is...