I listen to the Today programme a lot – I’m awake at those hours and I’m interested in politics and current affairs. I sometimes wince at the tone and content of their environmental coverage. If this programme had the same standards of challenge and enquiry on environmental matters as it does on sometimes trvial events…
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Sunday book review – In Search of One Last Song by Patrick Galbraith
I’ve been looking forward to reading this book – but with some trepidation. I know the author just a little, he bought me lunch once, and I chose my words carefully and somewhat guardedly with him. Why? Because he is the editor of the Shooting Times. So I wasn’t sure what to expect from this…
Guest blog – Burdens Not Gain – have we all missed a trick? by an anonymous planning ecologist
For the last 10 years I’ve been the planning ecologist for a local authority. The role of planning ecologist is little-understood by the wider public but that’s not the subject of this article. Instead, my point is about Biodiversity Net Gain and whether we have confidence the private market will deliver this public good. I…
Book reviews on this blog so far, this year
This weekend I’m reading and writing. Since 1 January 2022 these book reviews have appeared on this blog – one a week on average. The Trespasser’s Companion by Nick Hayes – review Thin Places by Kerri ni Dochartaigh – review The Role of Birds in World War Two by Nicholas Milton – review Saving Eden…
Three years in the garden – on this date
Three years, the first of which was the glorious spring of lockdown (best), then last year’s cold drear spring (worst) and now this year (middling).