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Nicola Baird, Climate campaigner Islingtonfacesblog.Com
Published:
8:45 AM May 15, 2021
Regent’s Canal is perfect for low-carbon relaxing
- Credit: Nicola Baird
With Glasgow hosting the big climate meeting, COP26, in November, holiday travel could have been the chance for our government to give a clear steer about cutting carbon when overseas holidays are allowed again from May 17. Instead, “Been anywhere nice?”, that archetypal hairdressers’ conversation starter, still implies a trip reached by plane.
Any holiday – or business travel - which begins and ends with the airport adds to our personal carbon footprint and global warming. Regrettably most of the ‘green list’ countries are only really reachable by plane – Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei, Iceland, Gibraltar and Israel. While the remainder are rarely thought of as holiday destinations, such as the Falkland Islands.
Published:
8:45 AM April 10, 2021
Overflowing litter bin beside Regent’s Canal
- Credit: Nicola Baird
On a recent Grayson Perry’s Art Club, filmed in Barnsbury, Grayson’s co-host Philippa Perry stitched a cushion cover with the words “Nurture Nature”, riffing on her role as psychotherapist who unpicks people’s problems. It’s a reminder for us all as we start to emerge from a year of lockdowns into a decade which needs to see Islington reach net zero carbon by 2030.
Clearing up rubbish doesn’t cut carbon or tackle climate change. But watching stewards take nearly two hours to collect and sort the picnic rubbish left all over Highbury Fields after the hottest March day (24.5C) in half a century you’d be forgiven for thinking that few of us nurture either place or planet.