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Ben Law
Rozie Apps |
Tuesday, 21st May 2013

The Brecon Beacons will be filled with music, comedy, inspiring talks, literature and workshops this summer and two of our authors will be appearing at the festival as well.

 
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Beth Tilston |
Friday, 17th May 2013

Anyone managing a piece of land, whether it be a community garden, a wildflower meadow or even a lawn, knows how quickly grass grows and how difficult it can be to find an eco-friendly, ear-friendly way of managing it. Enter the scythe. Yes, the tool that the Grim...

 
Photo by Daniel Bridge/Essex Wildlife Trust
Rozie Apps |
Thursday, 16th May 2013

Burying our rubbish in landfill sites is an unsustainable answer to societies waste problems.

They take up huge areas of land that instead could be used to grow food or house people. And what happens when there is no land left to fill with rubbish?

 
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River of Flowers |
Thursday, 9th May 2013

Nature will be brought to London on May 19th as part of the Chelsea Fringe Festival 2013.

 
Humboldt State University/Public Domain
Rozie Apps |
Tuesday, 7th May 2013

The non-profit organisation, Archangel Ancient Tree Archive is on a global mission to reforest the earth and clone ancient champion trees from around the world.

Their plan is to archive the genetics of old tree's in living libraries across the world, before...

 
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Rozie Apps |
Thursday, 2nd May 2013

Permaculture design has helped the village of Chikhawo in Malawi to turn around the effects of climate change.

 
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Rozie Apps |
Wednesday, 1st May 2013

A New Seed Law will go before the EU commissioners on May 6th 2013. 

The Regulation on Marketing of Plant Reproductive Material law will mean no seed can be sold, or potentially even given for free to anyone in the EU unless that...

 
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Maddy Harland |
Wednesday, 24th April 2013

Last week the agriculture minister David Heath warned us that Britain may be on the verge of a new food crisis. A growing population, along with more crop failures as a result of increasingly unstable weather conditions, have already led to a significant increase...