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Bringing together the articles and resources about gardening and climate change. WORK IN PROGRESS!
Articles on climatexGarden pixGardening links
Your starter - browse through these articles on climatex.org Impacts of Climate change on Allotments - The background presentations to the Climate Change and Allotments meeting held on 22nd November 2007 Gardening in a global Greenhouse looks at how one gardener, Martin Stott, is preparing for the impacts of climate change in his garden in Oxford. Worms go to work on waste - 30 tonnes of worms are working in factories in Monmouthshire to process our biodegradable waste. Read about their contribution to society in this BBC article.
Springwatch.. observing nature - If you want to send your recordings and observations of nature to help a national assessment of Britain's ecology, you can send them to Springwatch, a BBC programme. UK Climate Impacts Programme - The UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) provides scenarios that show how our climate might change and co-ordinates research on dealing with our future climate. BBC's gardening and climate change pages - impact on gardens, endangered garden plants, plants for the futures, what you can do. Royal Horticultural Society - Comprehensive Gardening and Climate change pages Grow Sheffield.com - urban community food growing National Garden Scheme - info on the gardens open for charity Garden resources
Download four posters for your info, or to display at Open Gardens / Allotments events. If you'd like printed version, please email info@climatex.org saying how many you'd like, and what size. We can print up to A3, or can do a double sided A4 folded to A5 for a leaflet version. |
