Free courses for environmental champions
Protecting Our Planet: Essential Courses for Environmental Champions – Our planet’s biodiversity is disappearing at an unprecedented rate, with species extinction occurring 1,000 to 10,000 times faster than natural rates. Climate change, habitat destruction, and human activities continue to threaten the delicate ecosystems that sustain all life on Earth. Yet, there is hope—and it begins […]
Planetary Heath Check 2025
The Planetary Health Check for 2025 was released in September concluding that seven out of nine Planetary Boundaries have been breached, with all of those seven showing trends of increasing pressure – suggesting further deterioration and destabilization of planetary health in the near future. For the full details the document is accessible at https://www.planetaryhealthcheck.org/wp-content/uploads/PlanetaryHealthCheck2025.pdf
Essex launches masterplan to boost nature recovery
(image: Paul Starr) The Essex Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS), developed over a two year period in collaboration with farmers, landowners, community groups, and environmental organisations, is designed to assist communities in restoring the countryside, creating more homes for wildlife, and improving the natural environment for future generations and to reverse decades of decline in […]
Ecological Overshoot Day
Today is the day in 2025 that humanity has consumed all of the annual supply of natural resources – farmland capacity, fish stocks, forests, and emit more CO2 etc – that ecosystems can regenerate or absorb. This is called “Overshoot Day” and the day this falls each year is getting earlier and earlier as we […]
Farm cluster event success
We hope everyone who attended the recent Sustainable Uttlesford Members meeting, in association with Roding and West Essex Farm Cluster group, at Bury Farm enjoyed it. It was a wonderful evening, with lots of positive connections made. Thank you to Jane Donaghy and Jonathan Clarke for hosting, and to Darren Tansley (Essex Wildlife Trust) and […]