'From the Ground Up' takes Wysing’s rural context, abundant land and neighbouring Fenland (at risk due to climate change, and rich in histories of land-based struggle) as a context for thought and action about topics including land rights, ownership and access, sustainability, environmental time and crip time, growing, wildness and racial justice.
'To the River' is described as a new public artwork commissioned to celebrate and promote the story of the River Cam in Cambridge, as part of an artist residency on the river.
Councillors at South Cambs District Council vote to proceed with this development despite clear evidence of environmental harm.
Fighting for the Fens: Commemorating 500 years of resistance to 'progress'
James Boyce, author of Imperial Mud, explains how past fights against large-scale enclosures and drainage projects characterised the Fens.
Friends of the Cam have sent a letter of objection to the Draft Local Plan. The consultation closes on the 13th December.
In his talk for Friends of the Cam, Professor Steve Ormerod considered some of the pressures on rivers, from climate change, legacy pollutants to microplastics, and some of the consequences for river organisms. The talk also considered some of the benefits of actions that can be taken to reduce impacts, for example through regulation or sensitive catchment management.
14 the August 2021
The Environment Agency is asked to clarify their position on the viability of supplying further growth from the Cam chalk aquifer following latest response from Stephen Kelly, writes Monica Bijok Hone
August 1st 2021
As the anniversary of 'that letter' from the Environment Agency approaches, we still have no answers to questions about how growth in Cambridge and South Cambs can be sustainably supplied with water, writes Monica Bijok Hone
The age of extinction
'Laws of nature: could UK rivers be given the same rights as people?
As more and more countries grant natural features or ecosystems legal personhood, the UK’s fight to pass nature rights laws is quietly gaining pace.' Guardian Saturday 17th July 2021
Environmentalists George Monbiot and Fanny Armstrong expose the slow death our rivers by pollution.