Last night the IEM management committee met with our shiny new social enterprise consultant Adrian Ashton, to work out how to move forward with the Green Food Adventures business plan. We’ve already done our Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analyses for the five “fingers” of the proposed sustainable food business (formerly known as Growing Futures). You can read our revised Concept paper here.
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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has given the lie to UK Coalition government claims that its field studies show that neonicotinoids do not cause unacceptable damage bees.
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If you’d like to learn how to make useful things out of green wood, you’re in luck. There is a choice of short courses this summer in Hebden Bridge, run by Keith from Blackbark and his friend Julie.
Absolute beginners are welcome. So, what might you turn your hand to?
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A new scientific paper reports on the greening of semi-arid regions since 1982, as a result of the “carbon fertilisation” effect. Plants grow by photosynthesising atmospheric carbon dioxide and turning it into hydrocarbons to feed on.
Australian scientist Randall Donohue and his team predicted that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, the result of increased fossil fuel burning worldwide, would increase the growth of plants in semi-arid areas.
20’s Plenty 4th Annual Conference on 23rd May brought together news of the campaign’s progress over the past year.
How did Care UK and Virgin Care end up with contracts to run GP services in Calderdale? And after Calderdale CCG completes its review of GP services and community unplanned care (ie urgent care that isn’t A&E), how many more privatised GP services are we going to end up with?
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