The journey to a Wilder St.Albans has started and Heidi Carruthers of Herts and Middx Wildlife Trusts wants your help finding spaces with potential to become better for wildlife You can nominate a spa…
Having drawn a blank saving the former Butterfly World site, Butterfly World 2.0 are creating butterfly friendly areas further afield. Lindsay McRea explains what they’re up to and how you can help ta…
Feeding bellies not bins is the aim of Watford’s amazing Random Cafe – Sustainable Watford . Be inspired by manager, Jane, who talks about the origins, achievements and plans of this awesome organisat…
St.Albans Sustainability Festival Working Group chair, Jill Watson, shares some of the difficulties and successes of this year’s festival To support the Herts and Middlesex Trust Astonbury Wood appeal…
The results of the St.Albans District Residents Climate Survey are in and Catherine Ross, trustee of Sustainable St.Albans, explains the findings. She also talks about why we’re being to asked to take…
From 1st July St.Albans District residents will have to pay if they want their green waste collected. So, even if you have a garden, how easy is it to manage without a green bin? Experienced composter…
Young people under the age of 30 make up only 3% of trustees. Young trustee Nina Vinther talks about her experience as a trustee, has tips for other young people wanting to give trusteeship a try and…
Writer and performance poet Keisha Thompson responds to the Your Forest project recently broadcast on Radio Verulam’s Local Life programme. Financed by the Audio Content Fund, Your Forest was created…
We’re back to the “Your Forests” project and focusing on a few of the many creative responses to woodlands and forests. In this podcast, it’s Nicola Davies, writer and poet. A joint effort by ‘Wild…
Local activist Farhat Zia explains how she hopes that the Herts Asian Women’s Association Sustainability Festival event at which she is speaking will enable communities from around the world to learn…
Heidi Carruthers of Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trusts asks us to take a questionnaire to take a closer look and report back on the wildness around us and local business woman Kate Cherry explains ho…
Steven Shelley explains how and why Earthworks will be joining the slow TV trend for SustFest and Nigel Harvey gives tips on air source heat pumps ahead of St.Albans XR/St.Lukes SustFest events at whi…
Nina Vinther, one of the young organisers of Activism and Optimism explains about the event and why it’s so important that young people are politically engaged on the issues around the climate crisis….
Hear how gardening has been a lockdown lifesaver for volunteers at the Marshalswick Community Garden. And Chris Thorne of Aylett Nurseries gives tips on choosing and using peat free composts. If you’d…
Recently there’s been reports around the District of privately owned land that had become known as a site rich in nature has suddenly been stripped of vegetation and worse. In this podcast Mark Park-C…
In the final part of the “Your Forests Project”, the creators (Wild Rumpus) focus on the future, including the expanding roots of England’s Northern Forest – from Liverpool via Chester, Manchester, Le…
