Tag: Flood

  • East Atlantic Flyway

    paradigm shift requires viable conditions

  • Beneath the Seawall, the Beach of Dreams

    Beneath the Seawall, the Beach of Dreams

    Last Sunday I participated in a stage of Beach of Dreams, walking between Bradwell Waterside and Burnham-on-Crouch. Beach of Dreams is an art project initiated by Ali Pretty of Kinetika, it’s a collaborative 500-mile walk between Lowestoft and Tilbury

  • 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…

  • Climate Emergency

    On 8th December I posted on social media about trying to find a point of agency in the face of the wicked problem of climate change – partly re-energised by the Extinction Rebellion actions: ‘I’ve never been a member of a political party, I’ve always been against it on the basis that joining a political…

  • Where You At Q2: How many days til the moon is full?

        The second question in the Where You At? bioregional quiz is: How many days til the moon is full? I’m not sure how good I would be at this calculation generally. I can’t remember seeing the moon lately but then I can’t remember looking at the night sky recently either. Today, Wednesday 11th April 2018, I’m pretty…

  • Greenhouse Britain

      The next report from the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is due late in 2019. The lag time between data gathering and data publication, plus the need for an agreed consensus amidst the contributors have conspired in previous editions to present overly optimistic scenarios, it’s now widely recognised that they’ve routinely underestimated the rate of…

  • Desk Research: Two Horseshoes

    When it comes to catastrophic flooding in Essex 1953 tends to get all the coverage, but the inundation of 1897 was equally noteworthy – after breaches in the sea walls 30-35,000 acres of farmland were underwater. Eventually most of that land was re-claimed, but a stretch of the north bank of the Crouch, near North…