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National Emergency Briefing held in Westminster

Carrie Cort — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:33:21 +0000

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A Beekeeper’s View: Simple Ways to Help Sussex Pollinators

Marianne Lindfield — Mon, 19 May 2025 09:33:26 +0000

by Daisy Day, Master Beekeeper In Britain there are around 250 different species of bees. A few of these are social insects living in large organised communities such as bumblebees and of course honeybees. All bees feed on nectar for energy and feed their larvae on pollen for protein, both collected from flowers. Pollination is […]

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Let it grow: the case for messy gardens and living soil

Marianne Lindfield — Tue, 13 May 2025 09:03:43 +0000

by Elle Runton. Deputy Trustee Sussex Green Living. It would be fair to say I’m not yet a gardener. My grandfather had a smallholding, and my uncle just lays his thumb on a plant leaf and it blossoms at his touch, but I’m embarking on a learning journey—with some success. My local Sussex nursery-bought raspberry […]

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Let Nature Lead: A No Mow May Journey in Sussex

Marianne Lindfield — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:43:49 +0000

Written by Marianne Lindfield Living with the land and recognising that even our gardens are part of it has been part of my thinking for a long time. As a permaculturalist observing patterns, valuing edges and letting nature lead is not new but each year the practice becomes more visible. This spring has brought […]

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Exciting new family friendly event in Horsham

Carrie Cort — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:36:36 +0000

Press release – PLANT TO PLATE FESTIVAL – brought to you by Sussex Green Living Growing together – Food – Fun – Family – Free From 10am-4pm on Saturday 26th April, Horsham will come alive to celebrate green living in Sussex – perfect for mums, dads, and little ones alike. It’s a day packed with […]

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Residents call on MPs to vote for landmark Climate and Nature Bill

Carrie Cort — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:56:38 +0000

Residents in Arundel and South Downs are calling on local MP Andrew Griffith to vote for a landmark piece of environmental legislation at its second reading on 24 January 2025. Members of Greening Steyning, Sussex Green Living, and South East Climate Alliance gathered this weekend for a photo opp to raise awareness about the Climate […]

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Country Ways

Marianne Lindfield — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 08:00:23 +0000

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 married, she and her husband grew everything: cabbages, turnips, swedes, cauliflower, runner beans, potatoes, radishes, gherkins, onions…and nothing was wasted. Even the swede and turnip leaf […]

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Sussex is Really Buzzing

Carrie Cort — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:51:30 +0000

Getting Sussex Buzzing again!

Sussex is really buzzing in 2024 thanks to exciting new collaborations between Sussex Green Living and local businesses: a new way of combining practical solutions to current and future environmental issues with community outreach, fundraising and business wellbeing. The Pollination Education Stations and Green Business Network have been developed in collaboration with Billingshurst based agency PMW Communications as part of their generous gift of pro bono work with 30 local charities to celebrate their 30 years in business.

One week after Sussex Green Living launched these new endeavours at the Sussex Green Hub, the first Pollination Education Station (PES) has been installed. Horsham based business, Envitia Ltd, a digital and data services company based in Horsham, will focus on one charity each quarter and on Monday 4th March, as part of their fundraising and collaboration with Sussex Green Living, they set up their Pollination Education Station, a haven for pollinators, with a community herb bed and an information board.

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The Importance of Nature

Marianne Lindfield — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 06:18:00 +0000

We all want a world where our climate is stable, nature thrives, and where all people have health, happiness, and prosperity – it’s our human right, right? Unless we change things, we are on track to breach the 1.5°C temperature increase limit set by the Paris Agreement by 2030. The breach risks irreversible environmental degradation […]

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Improving Soil Health with biochar

Marianne Lindfield — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:54:38 +0000

It was the first experience I’ve had of using a retort kiln. Normally I use a ring type. The ice crystals were glistening on the metal door as I pulled hard. It creaked with resistance as the morning sun shone upon what was left of the wood. It had been reduced by half through a […]

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Pollinator Highway

Marianne Lindfield — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:21:35 +0000

As a child, I never understood the saying, “It’s an ill wind indeed that blows no good,” but I recently realised that’s what’s happening now. I went to buy a thermal T-shirt, my current one sadly threadbare, but there were none to be had. The assistant told me they had ‘overperformed’, because fuel prices are […]

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Veganuary 10th Anniversary

Marianne Lindfield — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 07:03:30 +0000

2023 is the tenth anniversary of Veganuary, a month during which people don’t fast entirely, but simply commit to just eating plants. The vegan organisation GenV was started by Matthew Glover who also came up with the increasingly popular idea of Veganuary. GenV doesn’t take donations from the public but has a number of celebrity […]

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Restoring kelp, eliminating single use plastic

Marianne Lindfield — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 07:36:06 +0000

Did anyone see the coverage of the Earthshot awards presented by the Prince of Wales in Boston earlier this month? They were awards given to organisations, companies or cities recognised as making a significant contribution to dealing with climate change, reviving our oceans, and other similar objectives. You can watch the whole ceremony on BBC […]

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Birds of a Feather

Marianne Lindfield — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 07:05:56 +0000

On a guided tour of the George Watts Gallery, near Guildford recently, I was surprised to learn about the Victorian artist’s ‘protest pictures’. Born when our own Percy Shelley was at the height of his powers writing his controversial poems of protest, I felt the two would have got on well, with their artistic commentaries […]

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How to Grow in Harmony with Nature

Marianne Lindfield — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 06:32:00 +0000

Did you know that farming more in harmony with nature can not only replenish the soil (without the need for manufacturing and transporting factory-made chemicals long distances in plastic bags) but can also produce crops throughout the year because different foods can be grown together, in the same way as they are on an allotment? […]

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Sixty Years since Silent Spring (first published in West Sussex County Times)

Marianne Lindfield — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:21:06 +0000

Recycle. Repair. Save fuel. Care about Nature. They’re becoming mainstream now. But it wasn’t always thus. Sixty years ago, things were very different. Big science and technology dominated everything. Problem with insects munching your crops? Destroy them with DDT! Want to get to the shops faster? Try our new ’59 saloon with fuel consumption lower […]

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A Fond Farewell for our Green Queen (first published in West Sussex County Times)

Marianne Lindfield — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:08:34 +0000

As one of her final decisions, the Queen chose to mark her Platinum Jubilee this year with the Queen’s Green Canopy, a unique tree planting initiative which invited people from across the United Kingdom to “Plant a Tree for the Jubilee”. The first wave of planting took place in the spring, and as we mourn her passing, […]

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It’s Crystal Clear…We have a water crisis (first published in West Sussex County Times)

Marianne Lindfield — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 06:48:54 +0000

A surprise from a zoom I attended last week was that many people are unaware that we have a real water crisis here in Horsham District, the first ever in the UK on this scale. The huge water shortfall means that all building work is now on hold while solutions are sought. Southern Water provide […]

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The Importance of Rainforests (First Published in West Sussex County Times)

Marianne Lindfield — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:31:02 +0000

I have been blessed to spend 20 years working in the Ecuadorian Amazon and Choco cloud forest, a world away from my home in Pulborough. It has been like having parallel lives. The UK has one of lowest levels of tree cover in Europe at 13%, globally ranking 136th out of 189 countries. Looking down […]

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Swift Action Needed: Citizen Science for Horsham Swift Box Project (first published in West Sussex County Times)

Marianne Lindfield — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 19:55:17 +0000

Swifts have been thriving for about 70 million years, when they would have been nesting in crevices in rocks and trees alongside the last of the Tyrannosaurs. But despite millions of years, something has now gone dramatically wrong, and UK numbers have plummeted in the last 25 years. These extraordinary birds can remain in the […]

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Conserving the Coastline for People and Nature (first published in West Sussex County Times)

Carrie Cort — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 17:50:08 +0000

Keeping our coastline safe and sustainable is everyday work at Worthing Coastal Office. Rob Dove and his highly trained team cover the beaches from Shoreham to Ferring in all weathers. They run foot patrols, quad bikes, a jet ski and a powerful rib. Much of their work is about people: finding lost children in summer, […]

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Community Eco Centre for Horsham

Carrie Cort — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:20:40 +0000

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Horsham District Council new cabinet

Carrie Cort — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 22:12:03 +0000

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Sussex Green Living 2021 Roundup By Morag Warrack

Nick Bennett — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 11:00:04 +0000

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The Mystery by Clive Cobie (first published in West Sussex County Times)

Nick Bennett — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 09:00:59 +0000

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Sussex teenagers unite to take action on climate by Max Moorcroft (first published in West Sussex County Times)

Nick Bennett — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 17:45:45 +0000

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Eco milk float rising to CO2 challenge

The Webmaster — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:39:49 +0000

Press Release Eco milk float rising to the carbon reduction challenge Pop-up and rock-up An eco 1974 milk float, pop-up shop and pop-up climate emergency centre – what do they all have in common? They are all initiatives offered by multi-award-winning charity Sussex Green Living, to help people reduce their carbon footprint. It might be […]

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Nature Networks by Isabella Tree (first published in West Sussex County Times)

Marianne Lindfield — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 08:36:17 +0000

Imagine a beautiful Persian carpet. Then cut it into a thousand squares. What do you get? Not a thousand smaller Persian carpets but a thousand scraps of cloth unravelling at the edges. That’s what’s happening to nature in the modern landscape, the scraps becoming ever smaller as the threads begin to trip us up. It […]

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Sussex Kelp Forest Leads the Way by Keir Hartley (first published in West Sussex County Times)

Marianne Lindfield — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 09:21:58 +0000

The new kelp forest off the Sussex coast is becoming real. That’s the message from Councillors and wildlife and fisheries experts. And it puts Sussex in the forefront of efforts to combat global warming, habitat destruction and the return to a cleaner, more sustainable world. The marine forest which stretched between Chichester and Rye was […]

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Seal of success! by Keir Hartley (first published in West Sussex County Times)

Marianne Lindfield — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 10:45:41 +0000

Seals on our Sussex coast show that conservationists are getting something right. It’s not just Gavin the well-loved harbour seal who sports with paddle boarders in Littlehampton; we can see these marvellous creatures now in Chichester harbour, Eastbourne and in the Adur, where two seals named Bramble and Rivier (who swam in from Belgium) have […]

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