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November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 ~ Helen White ~ 2 Comments

Appreciating the difference between feelings and emotions...and why this is just so important to someone (like me) on the autism spectrum.

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Planting billions of trees across the world is one of the biggest and cheapest ways of taking CO2 out of the atmosphere to tackle the climate crisis, according to scientists, who have made the first calculation of how many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas. As trees grow, they absorb and store the carbon dioxide emissions that are driving global heating. New research estimates that a worldwide planting programme could remove two-thirds of all the emissions from human activities that remain in the atmosphere today, a figure the scientists describe as “mind-blowing”. The analysis found there are 1.7bn hectares of treeless land on which 1.2tn native tree saplings would naturally grow. That area is about 11% of all land and equivalent to the size of the US and China combined. Tropical areas could have 100% tree cover, while others would be more sparsely covered, meaning that on average about half the area would be under tree canopy. The scientists specifically excluded all fields used to grow crops and urban areas from their analysis. But they did include grazing land, on which the researchers say a few trees can also benefit sheep and cattle. “This new quantitative evaluation shows [forest] restoration isn’t just one of our climate change solutions, it is overwhelmingly the top one,” said Prof Tom Crowther at the Swiss university ETH Zürich, who led the research. “What blows my mind is the scale. I thought restoration would be in the top 10, but it is overwhelmingly more powerful than all of the other climate change solutions proposed.” Crowther emphasised that it remains vital to reverse the current trends of rising greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and forest destruction, and bring them down to zero. He said this is needed to stop the climate crisis becoming even worse and because the forest restoration envisaged would take 50-100 years to have its full effect of removing 200bn tonnes of carbon. [Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/04/planting-billions-trees-best-tackle-climate-crisis-scientists-canopy-em] #Trees #Climatechange #Carbonoffsetting #Plants #Ecosystem #Deforestation

Pete Flood delivered one of the more interesting and earnest performances we’ve been to at South Street Arts this evening ‘The Last Dipper: Tales From the Upper Itchen’ but his discordant composition certainly drew attention to his theme…the eco-plight of the river Ichen and how only 14% of the UK’s rivers are ecologically intact as we speak, and the Environment Agency doing f all about it, there’s simply no interest “from the top”. As one guy in the countless interviewee segments used in the performance said, there should be a very simple piece of legislation, that no one should be able to put water back into the rivers in a worse state than they take it out! Surely we can do better than this, Pete left us with…and he certainly left me pondering about what can we do to play our part in turning this around. Bringing together oral history, field recordings and readings this project has grown out of a lifetime’s immersion in the nature and ambience of one of the world’s great chalkstreams. Just 28 miles long from rising to outflow, the River Itchen is both one of the world’s rarest habitats and living repository of cultural history, shaped by human hands for thousands of years. As time passes the delicate balance between the needs of the river, its flora and fauna, and the bustling towns on its banks, becomes ever harder to uphold. Species are lost, customs forgotten, and the voices of the conservationists become ever harder to hear against the clamour of modernity. Pete sets the voices of those who work and live on the river to music both original and traditional, in an elegy for the world we are losing. Read more in Pete’s blog https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/2020/01/the-last-dipper-by-pete-flood/ His performance followed a first half on the theme of found objects and the lost stories of women lacemakers turned into song…a fantastic half-evening of music from Jackie Oates (also from her residency at the Museum of English Rural Life). Event funded & supported by English Folk Dance & Song Society & Love Music Help Musicians UK. #ecology #MERL #environment #ichen #wildlife #EFDSS #southstreetarts #ecosystem #rivers #pollution #waterpollution

Can’t stop making these vegan gluten free quiches now I’ve cracked my own recipe! They’re so delicious that the family cant get enough of them. Best served cold so this is one I made in advance for a quick buffet dinner later before we go out. The pastry, once again, is chick pea flour, almond flour and a dash of Dove’s Farm or similar gluten free white flour (which helps the consistency), with a handful of mixed ground flax seeds/nuts (optional), dessert spoon of tomato puree and one to two dessert spoons of coconut oil. No need to measure the flour amounts, just gauage to fit your quiche dish, the rule of thumb is more chick pea flour than anything, less almond and a relatively small amount of white flour. Add the coconut oil to the flours first and rub together with your fingers like you would with normal pastry but no need to get all the lumps out (this is rustic pastry), then add the seeds and puree and enough water to start kneading by hand to make a dough. Add more flour if its too wet. A dash more white flour helps bring it all together at the end and should be used on the surface and rolling pin to roll a circle to drop into an oiled quiche dish with a loose base. It should, by then, be the consistency of play dough, very easy to use and to fix holes in the sides of the pan (in fact, its a dream to work with…far easier than normal pastry. Cook at 180 degrees until its firm enough to hold the filling. Ive done various filling but this one is par-boiled sweet potato, par steamed courgette and caramelised onion. To prepare the latter, fry the onions in minimum oil until soft (this isnt meant to be a grease fest) then add a dash of balsamic and maple syrup to make a gorgeously rich caramelised onion relish. Add all these to the par-cooked base with some chopped kale and pour over the tofu mixture. Tofu mixture is made from half a pack of silken tofu in a blender with a scoop of marigold veggie stock, good pinch of yeast extract and seasoning/herbs. Blend until turned into a sauce and pour over the other ingredients. Bake in an oven at 180 degrees until the top is firm and golden, leave to cool and enjoy! #veganquiche #glutenfree #veganuary

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