An update from Warren Draper about what’s been going on at Bentley Urban Farm during lockdown, and what the future holds. The tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic has affected every single one of us. Grief and illness are obviously the deepest and most immediate of wounds, but even those whose families have not been directly …
Greenjacker meets with Chay Godfrey, founder of Crops NOT Shops about grassroots initiatives and evolving communities. One positive thing to come out of the Covid-19 global pandemic is that we have seen a rapid re-emergence of self-help and mutual aid in communities around the world. As soon as the scale of the crisis became apparent, …
Back in September 2019 I was excited by the forward-thinking and well-informed decision made by Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council (DMBC) to declare a ‘Climate & Biodiversity Emergency’ after a 2018 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggested that there was a slim twelve year window where we could act to keep global …
Wesley Grimes explores the Danum Trail, a 70 mile circular walk around Doncaster that’s fallen out of popularity with Ramblers. I was a very late driver for my age and, with that, walking was always a means of getting from A to B instead of a pastime. When I passed my driving test, the world …
Having featured the amazing Scarlett Lee from Extinction Rebellion Nottingham in the latest Doncopolitan (page 18) – who, as one of the thousand people arrested in London last week, has forced UK politicians to debate climate change – we decided to head down to the London for the XR protests to offer our support. Warren …