The comment below was made following a previous post in this series: ‘……. with 7.6 billion humans on the planet, ‘wild food’ is either unsustainable, or a tiny niche irrelevant to almost everyone.’ It got me thinking and although it’s hard to disagree with the overall sentiment, I do take issue with the last part….
Year: 2017
Sustainable dilemmas (2) – plastic from clothes
You see that fleece above? It’s got plastic in it, and when it is washed, plastic ends up in rivers and then the sea. I have two fleeces and I wear them a lot – they are warm, they are easy and they are good to wear with binoculars. They are also quite old and…
Dr Coffey’s reading list (15)
Dr Therese Coffey is the junior minister at Defra. Now that Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting has passed 10,000 signatures Dr Coffey will need to sign off a government response. In order that she does not make Defra look even more foolish than they do already I am providing a…
Local issue – seems I was right (2)
I see that Natural England has amended its original advice over the application to build 10 large broiler sheds on farmland near Rushden. There are two main changes to their new comments. First, NE has picked up my point on the NH3 emissions from the chicken waste once it is removed from the sheds –…
Two weeks today
I’m looking forward to this and am re-reading Derek’s book as part of my preparation.