Dogs and Wolves
Dogs and Wolves: Saving nature in Lewes where dogs are behaving like wolves! In Lewes, dogs are on a mission to help the environment, and they’re doing it by acting […]
Entries by Eve Delves
How Affordable are Affordable Homes?
How Affordable are Affordable Homes? We’ve heard a lot recently about housebuilding. Horsham District Council’s new Local Plan is now with the Government appointed inspector. Meanwhile, central government is promising […]
Preparing for Spring: Flowering Food for our Hungry Pollinators!
Preparing for Spring: Flowering Food for our Hungry Pollinators! As we head towards autumn, it’s time to think about spring planting and preparing our outside spaces and Pollination Education Stations […]
Enjoying Ducks and Protecting Ponds
Enjoying ducks and protecting ponds: Horsham Town has two new family-friendly Wildways Trails thanks to Horsham Green Spaces, and these are a wonderful way to explore nature, with both routes […]
Worthing’s New Heat Network brings in the Community
Worthing’s new heat network brings in the community. Can we really find ways to ensure that everyone gets a benefit from Net Zero? Not just by doing the right thing, […]
Partnering for a Greener Future
Partnering for a Greener Future: At SGL we’re thrilled to be partnering with Greenwood, which is a great example of how a company can become ‘greener’.
Country Ways
Country Ways: Val volunteers with Transition Horsham which runs the community allotment. She has decades of experience, as since childhood, she worked alongside her father on his allotment. When she […]
Animal Friends
Animal Friends: On Monday this week, I attended a wonderful open-air theatre performance in a hornbeam circle in a private woodland. The tree circle to create the ‘stage’ had been […]
Horsham’s Future: Sustainable Developments
Horsham’s Future: Sustainable Developments. Although we have had a change of government and Horsham has a Liberal-Democrat MP instead of a Conservative representative, the pressure to build new houses in […]
Rainbows and Hope
Rainbows and Hope. Rainbows have always been a symbol of hope, and I took this photograph at the weekend, just after my friend had said, “It’s impossible to take a […]
Without Nature We Are Nothing
Without nature we are nothing. With that in mind, Sussex Green Living, Horsham Eco Churches and their supporters joined more than 60,000 people, representing 350 environmental groups on the Restore […]
Vote Wisely for the Planet
Vote Wisely for the Planet. Sussex Green Living recently hosted the launch of Horsham MP Watch at the Sussex Green Hub. Pat Smith from Dorking introduced MP Watch to explain […]
Confessions of a Reformed Lawn Addict
Confessions of a reformed Lawn Addict. Oh, the swelling ambition with which I greeted my first lawn! (it was tiny). How I would nurture it! Feed it. Weed it, ruthlessly. […]
A Small Island
A Small Island. I’m currently reading one of Bill Bryson’s funny books and he beautifully describes a little-known area near Heathrow airport which has somehow escaped development. The Staines Moor […]
Horsham Cloth Nappy Library: Changing Nappies Changing Lives
Horsham Cloth Nappy Library: Changing Nappies Changing Lives We’re Lucy and Sarah, local mums who loved cloth nappies for our babies so much that we’re now running the Horsham Cloth […]
Sussex Green Living’s new Pollination Education Station initiative
Sussex Green Living’s new Pollination Education Station initiative! We are proud to announce the launch of our latest initiative, the Pollination Education Station and we are now calling on businesses, […]
Community Composting Revolution
Community Composting Revolution Nicky Scott, otherwise known as Mr Compost, is based in Devon and for many years has been the driving force in Community Composting across the county. This […]
Transition Horsham’s Annual Seed Swap
Transition Horsham’s Annual Seed Swap It’s spring! Well, nearly …we have some snowdrops out and it’s just glorious to see them. It is at least the promise that spring is […]
Keep Lancing Lovely – Ten Years Cleaning Sussex Beaches
Keep Lancing Lovely – Ten Years Cleaning Sussex Beaches. Down here on the coast, we’re lucky to have organisations like Keep Lancing Lovely: a tireless network of volunteers who clear the beaches of all sorts of mess and rubbish, enjoying themselves and keeping fit while they do it, as we found on the sunny Tuesday morning we spent with Wendy Peters, Graham, Rosina and Angela, the KLL team who were combing the shingles of Lancing beach for wood, glass, cigarette butts, vapes and plastic litter of all sizes.
Give Dry A Try in 2024
Give Dry a Try in 2024 We started our ‘Give Dry a Try’ campaign in January – but not for the reason you might be thinking – though that’s an […]
Solutions for Sustainable Heating: Navigating Heat Pumps
Solutions for Sustainable Heating: Navigating Heat Pumps -With too much heat in the summer and not enough in the winter, Sussex Green Living is delighted to showcase Option Energy Solutions […]
Sunday Musings – It’s Time to Fix the Bugs
Sunday Musings – It’s Time to Fix the Bugs. Last Summer, I went to Pulborough to join ‘Our Amazing Planet’, a service for children at St. Mary’s Parish Church, which […]
Shipley Community Hub: At the Heart of a Village
Shipley Community Hub: At the Heart of a Village. A group that started off due to a request for a local Bridge Club has grown into a real community centre! Thanks to […]
Rampion Wind Farm Providing Green Energy Since 2018
Recently, as a milestone birthday treat, I took a boat trip out to the Rampion Wind Farm which lies 13 kilometres from the shoreline on the South Coast and covers […]
From the Path to the Shop: Natural Community Food Production
From the Path to the Shop: Natural community food production. With all the worry about climate change and food production, it feels important to get to know one another to […]