Christmas Cheer with Best Wishes
Hurray for Wimbledon (I mean the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, not the town or Football Club)! They are working to make their grass courts and flower beds as sustainable as possible in the way they garden. They’ve given up peat compost and are experimenting with alternatives. They are also using coffee grounds, naturally rich in nitrogen, that help bacteria and fungi to flourish. http://happyeconews.com/wimbledons-peat-free-gardens/
Now Wimbledon have found a new purpose for some of their 50,000 tennis balls used annually. It’s been found that if a small hole is made in the ball and the ball put on a one to one point 5 meter strong stick, it will provide a safe, waterproof home for a field mouse and protect it from their predators like birds of prey and weasels! This will be a great help to the conservationists around the country too. happyeconews.com/wimbledon-donates-tennis-balls-to-be-used-as-homes-for-field-mice/
And hurray for the work going on to help coral reefs recover and flourish. At present, rising sea levels are bleaching the corals and storm surges are causing further damage to them, especially when hit by hurricanes.
Some researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have created tiles that contain nutrients to boost the immune systems of corals. They’ve been testing them in a lab and so far the results are promising.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/multivitamins-could-help-save-the-coral-reefs-new-research-shows/
Lastly, the Big 5 Banks – Barclays, HSBC, Nat West, Santander and Lloyds, continue to fund the fossil fuel industries who continue to search for new oil. It’s understandable because it brings in high profits.
The problem is the harm these industries are causing to our world! Now the British Medical Journal has joined the growing number of organisations disinvesting and stopping any links with fossil fuel industries. It’s incompatible with global health priorities, they say.
A joyful, healthy Christmas to you.
Julie Fagan, volunteer, Sustainable Harborough Community and Eco Churches
County Councillor for Gartree
