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There is no Planet B

5th November, 2019 Cat 0 Comments isle of wight, iwcp, litter, plastic, resources, sustainability

Sometimes I think I must sound like a dreary old gubber, a throwback of a bygone age. And I’m not alone; a fan wrote of my last column, “This belongs

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Municipal planting
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Where have all the flowers gone?

25th October, 2019 Cat 0 Comments isle of wight, iwcp, municipal, plants, sustainability

A butterfly flaps its wings in New Mexico and causes a hurricane in China, or so the introduction to Chaos Theory goes. Or, to put it another way, a mainland

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Flame shoes
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Long live the high street

24th August, 2019 Cat 0 Comments high street, isle of wight, iwcp, planning, shopping, sustainability

This month’s column comes to you from Oxford. As the Isle of Wight double-knots its bonnet ribbon in preparation for gale force winds, I’m sat in a coffee shop in

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Coffee
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Wake up and smell the coffee

14th August, 201915th August, 2019 Cat 0 Comments isle of wight, iwcp, sustainability

Back in the day, I studied industrial design. I learned how to do technical drawing, made prototypes of products in a well-equipped workshop and was taught about the history of

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Island Line
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Living in electric dreams

14th August, 201915th August, 2019 Cat 0 Comments cycling, isle of wight, iwcp, portsmouth, sustainability, transport

When I was a nipper, there was much talk of pollution and acid rain, damage caused by aerosol propellants and litter. Inspired, I started a Womble Club to encourage my

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Environmental infrastructure: what it could really cost

26th May, 201313th February, 2014 The Virtual Ranger 2 Comments environment agency, flooding, government, planning, politics, sewage, sustainability

Drains, water, sewage works, landfill sites… usually best left to somebody else to sort out. Well, maybe once this was true. In south-east England nothing could be further from the

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