environment

WHATEVER ENERGY-SAVING tips the government may put out this winter, here is an explanation of last winter’s message to ‘turn your gas boiler settings down to 60 degrees to save energy and £££’. Most gas […]

GIVEN THE new government will restore the 2030 deadline for the end of sales of new petrol and diesel cars, and has retained targets for the sale of electric vehicles (EVs) which encourage manufacturers to […]

THIS YEAR IS the tenth anniversary of Reading’s Bicycle (or Bike) Kitchen, where volunteers assist you to maintain and repair your cycle. They run maintenance courses and accept donations of bicycles to be reconditioned and […]

If it was a country, the internet would be the fourth biggest greenhouse gas emitter on the planet, and a major consumer of water for cooling. In 2018, Google used 15 billion tonnes of drinking […]

WE’VE ALL HAD the annual requests from Plantlife for ‘No-Mow May’ and ‘Let it Bloom June’, but you can increase biodiversity in your garden and provide food for pollinators without long, flowering grasses and tall […]

FOUR SWIFTS were seen in Thatcham at the beginning of May, signalling the return of these summer migrants who stay a few short months to breed in the UK. Swifts, Martins and Swallows are natural […]

THE RADIO 4 programme Sliced Bread investigates the truth behind different products. You may not be interested in the health benefits (or not) of mushroom coffee, but we all have to do washing up regularly, […]

IT’S TIME FOR the New Year’s resolutions: please put reducing food waste at the top of your list. Nine and a half million tonnes of food is discarded in the UK each year, with 6.5 […]

CAVERSHAM IS blessed with large public open spaces for dogs to race around. Within the town there are the floodplain meadows along the Thames, and a trio of grassland, woodland and scrub areas along the […]

THAMES WATER has been running some amusing TV adverts with a serious message in recent months. Every day they deal with around 200 sewer blockages, many of them the consequence of people using their toilets […]