Guest blog – What all Wise Men and Women Know by Ric Edelman

  Ric Edelman is a conservationist and creative writer. His new book CHEETAH Caught in Conflict, with illustrations by Iranian artist Sama Soltani, gives 50% royalties to cheetah protection. Ric co-founded Green Light Trust which mentored 60 community woodlands and now brings marginalised groups closer to nature through the learning of conservation skills.   My…

Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 29 of CEP (240 MW) by Nick MacKinnon

Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…

Guest blog – Don’t Look Around You by Barry Kemp

I am recently retired but have spent the last 20 years working as an ecologist, primarily in the conservation of our native reptile and amphibian species. During this time I had to deal with many housing developers and the message I and other ecologists were always trying to get across was that our biodiversity was…

Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 15 of CEP (240 MW) by Nick MacKinnon

Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…