Tag: Climate Change

  • If You Fail to Plan, You Are Planning to Fail

    It’s now 6 years & 7 months since the Maldon Local Development Plan 2014-2029 [pdf] was approved (21 July 2017) and 6 years & 5 months since the Burnham Neighbourhood Plan 2014-2020 [pdf] was made part of the Maldon LDP by Maldon District Council (8 September 2017).

The period both these plans cover ends in 2029…

  • Many Evenings

    It’s seven years since we moved to Burnham-on-Crouch now, enough that we’re both more settled than either of us had been for many years before. We know the place and we know people, we’re wiser to the stories and characters of a five-mile radius. One or both of us have become involved in groups here,…

  • East Atlantic Flyway

    paradigm shift requires viable conditions

  • Realecologik

    Realecologik

    I was chatting the other day (informally) with someone involved with NetZero planning for the UK Government. I was spitballing my usual ideas, which were all getting shot down as politically infeasible: “No one will vote for that”. It felt to me like the sets of actions which were considered ‘politically possible’ and those that…

  • New Vernaculars

    New Vernaculars

    There was a heat dome over the north. It was in the news about the USA and Canada, but it’s also been in the Russian Arctic, Scandinavia, in the febrile crescent above the Arabian Sea arcing from Oman to Pakistan. A couple of weeks ago, during a Zoom call with a colleague in Milan she…

  • A brittle redoubt

    A brittle redoubt

    All to produce an atomic island raised above the surrounding land, destroying views enjoyed for millennia. An ugly plant for overpriced electricity, using the technology of a century that’s passed, profits leaking overseas to foreign investors. A brittle redoubt destined to hold a chamber of poisons no living thing can touch.

  • Managed Retreat #2

    After a few false starts, reconsiderations and revaluations since the first issue, work has commenced on issue 2 of Managed Retreat. The image above is part of the prototyping phase for the cover. The pink shape is the outline of the Dengie peninsula after

  • Back to the Strandline

    This week Essex Live brought back the Climate Central Flood Map story that featured in the last post. This time around the story, and its associated maps, were accompanied by some welcome discussion of the implications and possible mitigation from Drs Natalie Hicks and Tom Cameron of the University of Essex’s School of Life Sciences.…

  • Vulnerable to Flooding

    Lots of the local ecologically concerned folk are sharing this news story based on the Climate Central flood map update using the CoastalDEM® v1.1 digital elevation model. I’m not immune to doing so myself. Combined with the recent devastating floods in the north of England these projections seem to offer a warning from the future…

  • The Hour is Getting Late

    The time we have left to avoid climate disaster is getting short and the sun is setting on the opportunity to avoid catastrophe. Not that you would know it from the political inactivity around here.