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Our Children are Losing the Experience of Nature
We are becoming estranged from nature. Some 80% of people in the UK live in urban areas and the rest of the world is heading in that...
Mike Shipley
Jan 31, 20193 min read
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Inspiring us with Hope for Nature
How healthy is the natural environment in our beautiful Peak District? How can we care for and enhance it? These were the questions that...
Charlotte Farrell
Jan 27, 20193 min read
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Actions from Hope for Nature conference
On Saturday 19th January, more than 70 people overcame train strikes and braved the snow to come to Bamford village institute and discuss...
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Jan 22, 20192 min read
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Rewilding - Setting nature free
Human beings in general regard nature as something to control and dominate. Even the commonly held western view of having stewardship...
Mike Shipley
Dec 30, 20182 min read
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Homelessness
“We envision a country underpinned by well-funded, locally-led public services providing care and support for all - a society rooted in...
Joanna Collins
Dec 21, 20183 min read
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Affordable housing
Almost 20% of families in High Peak are living in accommodation that does not suit their needs and more than 25% are living in problem...
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Dec 15, 20183 min read
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Climate change is damaging our health
The Lancet countdown on Health and Climate Change The Lancet medical journal was one of the first to highlight the enormous threat posed...
Jeremy Wight
Dec 11, 20183 min read
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The value of protecting recreational space at Roughfields
Just on the edge of the Hadfield and before you get onto the expanse of the Peak District is Roughfields. Leading nicely onto the...
Luke Robinson
Dec 8, 20182 min read
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Green Space and Exercise for Mental Health
The GREAT Outdoors It’s estimated that at least one in four adults have experienced a mental health problem in this country, and scarily,...
Dan Mayers
Dec 7, 20183 min read
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Book Review: Designing Regenerative Cultures
Much has been written about the destructive nature of our society and of the multiple crises that plague our every day lives and that...
Mike Shipley
Dec 4, 20184 min read
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The hidden dangers of moorland fires
For 3 weeks in July this year fires raged on Saddleworth Moor, burning seven square miles of heather moor before being brought under...
Mike Shipley
Nov 20, 20183 min read
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Fracking in Lancashire: the beginning and the end?
It started in Lancashire. In 2011 Cuadrilla Resources, a company chaired by ex-BP head Lord Browne, started the first high-pressure frack...
Martin Porter (Frack Free Glossop)
Nov 18, 20184 min read
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Climate change - we need radically different policies
It's now more than a month since the International Panel on Climate Change published a dire warning that we must act now to avoid...
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Nov 14, 20183 min read
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12 years to limit climate change catastrophe
This is the largest clarion bell from the science community and I hope it mobilises people and dents the mood of complacency Debra...
Joanna Collins and Jane Reynolds
Oct 9, 20186 min read
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The Green Party political program
A system based on inequality and exploitation is threatening the future of our planet. The Greens are the only political party in England...
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Sep 27, 20184 min read
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Fire on Saddleworth Moor
The fire still burning on Saddleworth Moor is not in High Peak itself. But it is close enough to make us worry: we have many similar...
Mat Paterson
Jun 28, 20182 min read
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Waste Not!
Earlier this year, a zero waste conference in Capannori in Tuscany, Italy was attended by more than 100 people from all over Italy - and...
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Jun 23, 20183 min read
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Where do all those old clothes go?
“In 2013 the UK was home to 6 billion items of clothing, roughly a hundred per adult; a quarter of these never leave the wardrobe.”...
Joanna Collins
Jun 4, 20183 min read
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A neighbourhood development plan for Buxton
Under the Localism Act and the National Planning Policy Framework, all local authorities have to create a local plan for building...
Pat Thompson
Jun 3, 20182 min read
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Reduce, Repair, Recycle
Plastic is a problem, with visible and hidden impact, and is rightly the focus of much attention. But course it’s not the only material...
Joanna Collins
Apr 10, 20184 min read
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