Environment Round-up: The outdoors

It has felt like a quiet few weeks for environment news; maybe we’re just waiting for the weather to get warmer and Spring to really get started. However unlike me, many of you aren’t waiting  and are already thinking about the outdoors.

The outdoors

Me, you and Magoo talk about the community farm created from derelict land in 1976 in Bristol’s Windmill Hill City Farm turns 40 and Nell at the Pigeon Pair and me introduces you to a two acre natural park near Kings Cross and St Pancreas station in London in Wilderness in the city: Camley Street Natural Park, Kings Cross London.

Plutonium Sox wonders if spaces like these will exist in the future if we don’t teach our children (and their children) to appreciate them in Will the countryside die with our generation? While Babi a Fi describes taking her daughter litter picking to improve their local area in Getting My Hands Dirty! 

If you are looking for ideas for getting outside in your own garden, Ali at Fun Craft Kids describes how to Make a mini garden pond and Red Ted Art suggests 5 Thrifty Gardening Ideas.

Clothes

Another topic that has been popular is reducing the environmental impact of clothes and laundry. Captain Bobcat gives 5 reasons to switch to use reusable nappies, The Goriami Family have been buying clothes and accessories from the charity shops because it is Clothing which doesn’t cost the Earth, and Jenny has been focussed on cleaning clothes in the post The Ecoegg has landed! A review and thorough testing. 

Thank you to everyone who sent me posts. Please send me links to your environmental posts for the next round-up via my blog or tweet me @katedavis. Alternatively, let me know if you have any questions about the environment and I’ll try and answer them in future posts.