As the great summer weather continues last week saw the first burst of alerts to the public to use less water from Scotland to Thames. This is in measure to try and curb the increased demand such weather provokes. ‘Droughts’ are notoriously slow to develop, and at the point when the seriousness is realised it […]
Natural England are producing a growing set of YouTube video on mud and sand habitats in Marine Protected Areas. These will be helpful to a host of people promoting an awareness of local marine life and marine protected areas. They and short, powerful and very helpful. A great resource. Wembury MPA – nest building wrasse […]
Climate change Update – Bruce Horton IPCC New Communications Handbook for Climate Change A new Communications Handbook, commissioned by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has been launched. It sets out six principles for effective communication, ahead of the IPCC’s 1.5 degrees special report, expected later this year. Artic Warming An alarming heatwave in […]
Lord Chris Smith publicly outlined this policy back in February now Emma Howard Boyd has also described the ongoing nature of this uneasy relationship between gagging and funding. Global Government Forum: By Liz Heron on 06/10/2017 Regulatory bodies in England have been told not to publicly criticise the government and instead to raise concerns privately with ministers, the […]
A Beautiful If Evil Strategy – Chris Rose Posted on September 27, 2017 by tochrisrose ‘As the planet fills up with plastic and the EU ponders its new ‘plastics strategy’, is the great re-framing and concern co-option strategy of the plastics industry finally going to run out of road? The threat of invisible omnipresent micro-plastics may force policy-makers […]
Bob Earll: For my generation George Orwell’s books ‘1984’ and ‘Animal Farm’ were key reading and masterpieces of how words and communication were controlled for the good of the state. Although this is nothing new and Ian Hislop’s Orwell lecture highlighted that in the time when they were written Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini were […]
We are very pleased to announce the release of our new film “The Drip – a watery tale” – beautifully animated by Tim Britton of Forkbeard Fantasy – it’s only 5mins long and we’d love you to watch it … and if you love it too, please do help pump it along the water connected […]
Each week I scan 15+ websites in the water sector news of water, environmental and sustainability issues. So this week I see that this week it is invasive species week and also water saving week. All very worthy but you have to ask what the function of these weeks is if you only get to […]