Blogs on environmental issues affecting Lyme Regis, including regular contributions from Turn Lyme Green and Plastic Free Lyme Regis. To view more comment and opinion pieces, visit our Blogs section.
INSIDE our freezer it’s a chilly -20C, but behind it, its quite warm. The freezer takes heat out of the food and pumps it out as heat. […]
YOU may have read previous articles here about the terrible state of our bathing waters in Lyme (and the UK generally), caused by routine dumping of millions of tonnes of raw sewage into our seas and rivers by the water companies, whose primary objective should be to clean up and process our sewage! […]
IT has always been possible, given enough gears and athletic endeavour, to bike around Lyme. But unless cycling is your thing, it’s not an attractive prospect. […]
MAKING small changes and swaps to some of our much-loved Christmas traditions is easy and can also be fun and creative. […]
IT really is possible to have a great Christmas and keep it sustainable, while also saving money. […]
AFTER the equinox everything seems to change, and not just the amount of daylight we enjoy. It feels more autumnal and as if everything is slowing down. […]
CUTTING down on single-use plastic can seem like an enormous task if you try to tackle it all in one go. Sometimes when you are trying to avoid it, it seems to be everywhere! Where do you start? […]
WHAT better way can there be to stay healthy than eating a variety of the freshest fruit and vegetables? […]
DURING the coronavirus pandemic there has been obvious concern about protecting ourselves and others and a need for extra care when buying, sharing or re-using everyday items. […]
TO address the environmental crisis, to keep global warming within 1.5C, to safeguard millions of lives in this and future generations, we need to green investment – improving energy efficiency, replacing fossil fuels with renewables, providing cleaner transport alternatives. […]
DID you see this headline recently in the national newspaper. Is it true? Has somebody been counting all the masks in the oceans? Or indeed all the jellyfish! […]
THE COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous effect on all of our normal daily lives. As Lyme Regis reawakens following two months of lockdown, I thought it might be worthwhile to review a couple of initiatives from Surfers Against Sewage and Litter Free Coast and Sea that have been running during the lockdown period. […]
SOME of the myths and questions surrounding plastic recycling were answered at a packed-out talk hosted by Turn Lyme Green and Plastic Free Lyme Regis last week. […]
TWO representatives from Turn Lyme Green’s Plastic Free Lyme Regis were invited to attend the world’s first Plastic Free Awards held by marine conservation charity Surfers Against Sewage and the Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation. […]
CONTINUING our series of interviews looking at businesses and organisations around Lyme Regis that are planning to become single-use plastic free, Karen Durham-Diggins of Plastic Free Lyme Regis speaks to Nicky Taylor, co-owner of the Penny Black Café in Broad Street. […]
APPARENTLY £30 buys a carbon offset for a long flight. That’s great! Aviation is a major cause of climate change, so a cheap way to negate the damage seems just the ticket… or is it? […]
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