Hi Readers, Thank you for your many letters offering support and suggestions for The Hourglass newspaper. Here’s a selection of some of the comments you’ve sent in. Many thanks for the copy of The Hourglass newspaper. We don’t usually get “radical” communications through our letter boxes in Knowle Solihull, just advertising from care homes…
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The Great Western Railway website performs a useful calculation when I book my ticket for a Cotswolds day out. Making this trip by train I’m responsible for 58% less CO2 than if I’d gone by car. As we begin to take the true environmental cost of travel seriously, expect to see much more of this…
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The UK’s earthworm population has the potential to triple and farms and could save on costs, according to the results of an experiment by scientists at Cranfield University. For his PhD research, Dr Tom Storr found that using cover crops to protect soil and introduce organic matter increases earthworm numbers and provides financial savings…
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The turbo train roars away and deep peace descends on Great Missenden station. Once the country railway mood music would have been clanking milk churns and cooing racing pigeons in straw baskets. Today the only sound is the unfolding of my map and a sweet rhapsody from a wren. I’m in the heart of…
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Two of the UK’s most prominent theatrical companies have cut their ties with some of the world’s largest oil multinationals following threats from supporters to boycott the institutions. On 2 October, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) confirmed it would end its partnership with BP at the close of 2019. BP’s sponsorship has supported the…
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I am originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the African second largest country after Algeria. The population remains one of the poorest in the world, but with its 5.000 kilometres of Congo River continuously delivering millions of cubic meters of natural water and its rainforest basin, the largest in Africa, Congo is the second…
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In September millions of people all over the globe marched for Climate Justice. When we chant that we want climate justice and we want it now, when we stand united with people worldwide, we must consider climate justice globally. We often talk about saving our futures and the futures of our children, and it…
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Vested interests have diluted the message of climate scientists for years, a new report has found. This has been revealed at the same time as the release of new data from world-renowned researchers that exposes the fossil fuel companies that have continued to contribute to the climate and ecological crisis, while knowing and ignoring the…
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We are rising up. We have been for almost a year now. It’s hard to ignore, especially now when we are reaching out on a local scale for new rebels to join us. That was what we hoped to achieve when we took to Blackheath Common in our hundreds and enjoyed the light and hope…
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Tom Hardy, 65, is a semi-retired teacher and academic writer from Islington, London. He will be on trial in January: “Our parents’ generation feared enemy action. Our children’s generation fear inaction. And the actions that we have taken this year have been more vital than anything.” Last October, I woke up one fine morning, switched…
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