Radio Verulam brings you a regular programme on issues at home and abroad which are affecting the environment, with an added focus on the local area. Tune in Tuesdays & Thursdays from 12pm on 92.6FM or stream live from http://www.radioverulam.com Any questions, comments or suggestions, get in touch! Email: environmentmatters@radioverulam.com
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 4 days 28 minutes
Awesome Oxfam
Whether its encouraging us to get out into the beautiful Hertfordshire countryside to Walk for Water or asking us to sign up to Secondhand September, local Oxfam groups and shops are doing awesome things to help people and the planet.
Solar Farm Planned for St.Albans
With calls to decarbonize our energy getting louder every day, Herts County Cllr Ralph Sangster describes plans for a new solar farm at Smallford Pit.
Water Voles are Back
After an absence of 34 years, water voles have returned to the River Ver. In this podcast, Josh Calms of the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust explains how 150 of these impossibly cute animals were recently released locally. Photo copyright Russel
Drastic on plastic, classroom traffic lights and Heathrow brings noise
An ingenious traffic light system & petitioning the head to ditch plastic - hear how students from Fleetville Junior School and Garden Fields JMI are making their schools more sustainable. Plus, Heathrow expansion would have enormous environmental
Wellbeing gardens & big step for divestment
Local garden expert Zia Allaway shares some of the findings in the recently published book Your Wellbeing Garden and Cllr Simon Grover explains his big step forward for local divestment.
2020 Vision
Looking forward to 2020 Amanda Yorwerth and her guests Bill Barr and Jonathan Chapman discuss what the coming year holds for 2 of the areas that are crucial to the environmental problems we face: business and farming. They discuss the problems of real
Your Forest and your health
The second part of the series Your Forest focuses on the benefits to our health - physical and mental - of time spent in the natural environment of woodland, forests and other green spaces. This nationwide project encourages listeners to record one minu
Symondshyde and Slugs
Some welcome news for lovers of Symondshyde, as Welwyn Hatfield BC has an about turn. And a plea to re-think our attitude to slugs, and help find out more about these under rated molluscs.
There Is No Planet B
The author of There Is No Planet B will be speaking at a meeting of the same name, and Pete Berners-Lee joins Amanda to explain why it’s going to be a great evening.
Why so many wildlife evictions?
Recently there’s been reports around the District of privately owned land that had become known as a site rich in nature has suddenly been stripped of vegetation and worse. In this podcast Mark Park-Crowne, spokesperson for the Save Napsbury Wildlife