Reading Friends of the Earth is a group of local people who work to improve our local environment. Usually meet every month.
Joined June 2015
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More than 20 airports across the UK have plans to expand. More flights mean more emissions, when we should be doing everything we can to reduce our emissions.
Sign the petition to Stop Airport Expansion: petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Britain Remade at it again trying to push uneconomic and unaffordable road schemes on the public
They will undermine investment in public transport and active travel (and better returns) as the Government has limited cash
Who is really funding this outfit?
thetimes.com/article/88c10cf…
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Culture war madness ...
Canada’s carbon tax is popular, innovative and effective – but now it faces the axe
- the levy is revenue neutral: govt doesn’t keep any money but remits all of it back to taxpayers
#ClimateCrisis
Story by @LeylandCecco
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Update: Neonic exemption licence applied for 2025/26 ⚠️
Neonicotinoids are harmful water-soluble chemicals that leach into the wider landscapes, and @DefraGovUK have no idea how much of it is in use, or where. All while butterflies are dying. 🧵(1/3)
#ButterflyEmergency
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Pleased to have taken part in discussion on #LowerThamesCrossing this morning on @bbcsoutheast's Politics Show
Still no answer from those promoting the road how it makes sense when it only provides 5 years relief at Dartford and will likely cost >£10bn
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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Come and hear what @XRReading @berksgp @globaljustice and @ReadingFOE say are the most important campaigns for #systemschange right now. Book your free place: eventbrite.co.uk/e/campaigns…
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New biochar study:
High-value crop and high application rates (2 tons/ac concentrated below crop row, effective rate=20 tons/ac), 3 types of biochar over 3 years...
No effect on yields, minimal effects on soil health.
Biochar; the most researched, least used soil amendment.
Article alert!📢
#Biochar influences soil health but not yield in 3-year processing tomato field trials doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20699
#OpenAccess study by Gelardi & colleagues @ucdavisCAES #SoilHealth
ALT Figure S1. Image shows how biochars were spread from buckets by hand into open trenches (25-30 cm deep) directly above preinstalled drip tape. Biochar-filled trenches were immediately closed, burying the concentrated biochar at the center of each bed (Santos-Medellin et al., 2021).
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Good to see Labour taking nature action as seriously as climate.
Without both there's no nutritional food security. 🍽️
For too long, farm budget was mostly subsidies, not agri-env payment
Now need £ to support both farmers leading way*, those in transition plus fair supply chains
'We are the conservers': Labour unveils plan to 'save Britain's beautiful countryside' ow.ly/oyGt105vYaF
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You’re invited to take part in the @ReadingCAN year of climate engagement in preparation for Reading’s climate emergency strategy for 2025-30.
Find out how you can get involved at this online #rdguk Climate Festival event on 13 Jun, 12.30-1.30pm.
rdguk.info/7kjAk
ALT The Maiwand Lion with The Blade in the background
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Have you been before? We think it's a highlight in Reading's community calendar😊 Check out the programme!
🌊 There are just 5 days left until @RdgWaterFest 2024! Check out the programme below and start planning your day ⬇
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📢 Do you live in the new constituency of Reading West and Mid-Berkshire? Come along to hear what your local candidates would do for nature at our hustings on Thursday 6 June.
Registering essential 👇
buff.ly/44SzNJQ
#GeneralElection2024
📷 Lucy Rakauskas
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Food politics barely feature in the UK election so far. They should. Food security (national & household) is a prime duty. So is the impact of food on health, economy & enviro. Why no Food Security & Resilience law? This interview I gave is now relevant: m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gfa-I…
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OUT NOW: 🌎ReadingCAN Newsletter #3
🌍 Get involved in setting Reading's climate action priorities for 2025 - 2030
🌍 Sign up to one of 30+ events during #ReadingClimateFestival
mailchi.mp/readingcan/rcan_u…
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If you are in Reading tomorrow come and join in #CriticalMassRDG at 19:30 outside the civic offices.
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Seven (of eleven) boxes are now occupied in our Swift Tower!
Swift Conservation: "One of only two seriously successful Swift Towers in the UK".
Photos (c) Colin Varndell.
@AfSwifts @swifts_uk @HampshireSwifts @swiftsweek
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Makes me weep Ian. The unthinking habits of the (bureaucratic) tidy mind. Fearful i guess of being sued & complained at by other tidiness-obsessed users. But we end being the most nature-depleted country in Europe. We end up looking like a nation of nature haters.
Good to see @HighwaysSEAST have been up to their trucks again on the #M25 again. Side flailing and mowing at this time of year? @MarkCocker2 As usual totally irresponsible. Thousands of #orchids about to flower.
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The Tories’ failed environmental pledges, from peat compost bans to beavers
@luciemheath reports trib.al/X8LwtgQ
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Now that the local elections are over, I have a declaration of my own to make.
I will be leaving Reading Today/Wokingham Today next month, after nine years as editor. The papers will continue without me.
ALT Picture: Mari77 from Pixabay
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Our #SwiftTown project! Zooming down the broad, high street of our unique commoning town, Hungerford. Thanks to @HEAT43152028 @PennyPostWB & the birding superpower that is @BirdwomanT for keeping this going! It features in my chapter in #WildService, illus by @nickhayesillus1 -)
Swifts are back. These amazing creatures are returning back to their nesting sites here in the UK but in less than half the numbers there were in 2000.
pennypost.org.uk/2022/07/hel…
#swifts
