Following the 2009 EU Directive on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides, the Pesticide Action Network, both in the UK and the EU, have been actively promoting the banning of pesticides in urban areas - our parks, pavements, playgrounds and verges - to encourage the wildlife that …
Amazon is ‘sidewalking’ its way into your house…
Well, it is not walking into our houses in the UK for now at least - although I would put money on them at least trying at some point in the future. But it is in the US. So how can 'Sidewalk' make its way into your house? In the very same way as BT's 'hot spots' - through …
Plant based diets appear to protect against COVID19
Research from a team at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore reported in the BMJ Journals suggests that plant based or pescaterian diets protect against severe COVID19. And not just protect slightly. 'After adjusting for important confounders, …
World Ocean Day – and disasters of overfishing
Did you know that yesterday was World Ocean Day? No, nor did I, until I got an email from Coty Perry of the anglers.com blog. He was asking if I could add a link to one of his posts from the one I did a while ago on how whales are far more efficient at reducing our CO2 emissions …
European Parliament calls for more research into 5G on World Electrosensitivity Day
For the last three years the French group, Coeurs d'EHS, has held a worldwide EHS Day on June 16th. The purpose of the day is not so much to campaign against the ever wider roll out of 5G and other electromagnetic powered technologies (although protests there certainly will be) …