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These could be the sounds of the suburbs

2nd December, 202016th November, 2020 Cat James 0 Comments iwcp, sustainability

Despite that heart-felt promise declared in his three little words, our Prime Minister has yet to Get Brexit Done. We’re

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Vintage fish shirt
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How fashion is becoming unfashionable

19th November, 202016th November, 2020 Cat James 1 Comment fashion, sustainability, vintage

Years ago I went shoe shopping with my stepfather. As the shop door tinkled our arrival, an assistant approached from

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Pumpkin lights
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There is no Planet B

5th November, 2019 Cat James 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

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Municipal planting
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Where have all the flowers gone?

25th October, 2019 Cat James 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

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Flame shoes
County Press articles Isle of Wight 

Long live the high street

24th August, 2019 Cat James 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

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Coffee
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Wake up and smell the coffee

14th August, 201915th August, 2019 Cat James 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

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Island Line
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Living in electric dreams

14th August, 201915th August, 2019 Cat James 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

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Ranger Rants 

Environmental infrastructure: what it could really cost

26th May, 201313th February, 2014 Matthew Chatfield 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

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