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Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?
Nature & Environment

Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?

...sustainable energy. Or we can chose Dirty Brexit: A polluting workshop for cheaply made goods banned in the European single market but traded with dictatorships and destined for landfill in China. What does it matter if we kill twice as many people as live in Rutland each year if we have a slightly better chance for a slightly higher return on our investment? Theresa May...
Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...sustainable food production, now is the time to see how hay meadows can fit into a sustainable, nature-friendly farming future. [The hay cycle on floodplain meadows: 1. Rising soil nutrients lead to a fall in botanical diversity. Removing a summer hay crop is a good way to remove nutrients from the meadow. This balances nutrients deposited by flooding. 2.Aftermath grazing...
Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment
Nature & Environment

Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment

...sustainable development; but saw tree-planting in a broader perspective which included democracy, women's rights, and international solidarity.” The success of the movement can be shown with its ethos that has endured and even been copied in other African countries. Check out this video, The woman who planted 50 million trees, on BBC Ideas Vision on environment,...
Ireland and the Battle of The Somme
OpenLearn Ireland

Ireland and the Battle of The Somme

...sustained over 5,500 casualties, of whom 1,944 had been killed (the British army overall had lost almost 20,000 dead, the highest number in its history on a single day). Only gradually did their families become aware of the scale of its losses; casualty lists from the battle were still being published in Ulster’s newspapers in early August, and ‘a hush of mourning...
Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done?

...sustaining a knee injury. In professional football, injuries are quite common due to the high physical demands of regular training and competition. The Football Association Injury and Illness Surveillance Study reported a match injury incidence of 18.5 injuries per 1,000 hours for senior women’s international football players (Sprouse et al., 2020). An injury to the...
Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...sustainability, climate and NetZero strategies they become acutely aware of the responsibilities beholden upon them across three specific climate-focused scopes. These scopes of responsibility have been defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to describe the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a company’s activities. They encapsulate emissions generated directly or...
Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education
Education & Development

Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education

...sustaining relationships that honour the integrity of this challenging decolonising process through deep respect, accountability, reciprocity, trust, and consent (Ahenakew, 2016, 2019; Jimmy, Andreotti & Stein, 2019; Whyte, 2020). In this article, I will summarise some elements of my presentation, and provide links to relevant resources. My work in this area is informed...
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...sustainable development - All around this coast are examples of efortsf to protect or enhance the environment. There are nature reserves, country parks and protected habitats, and the whole coastal fringe is designated as an area of scientific interest requiring special protection. There is also evidence of the need to manage the environment to ensure, so far as possible,...
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