If you come by here often, you’ll notice that I publish a “Quick Links” each week. I’ve been thinking about changing this a little, as there’s often a bit of background to why I’ve included a particular link but I rarely say why. So this got me thinking as to whether I should include this or whether I should convert this to a weekly newsletter which could be sent directly to peoples email inboxes rather than having to always come here to read it.

I’d welcome your thoughts, but also let me know whether you would subscribe to a newsletter (it would be done using something like mailchimp so that email addresses would be secure and you could subscribe or unsubscribe directly). If you have a preference let me know in the poll below.

Each week I’ll try and post quick links to things that I’ve seen, read or just sparked my interest in the previous week. Mostly gardening, cooking and environmental stuff but not always.

Could Brexit be the best thing for Europe’s wildlife? [The Guardian]

Solar has a bright future in the UK despite Tory efforts to cloud the picture [The Guardian]

The Week In Wildlife – In Pictures [The Guardian]

April breaks global temperature record, marking seven months of new highs [The Guardian]

Russia’s state-owned nuclear group keen to break into UK market [The Guardian]

China nuclear company will not build Hinkley alone if EDF drops out [The Guardian]

Each week I’ll try and post quick links to things that I’ve seen, read or just sparked my interest in the previous week. Mostly gardening, cooking and environmental stuff but not always.

Ten years after ‘hug a husky’, what is David Cameron’s green legacy? [The Guardian]

Ministers back down on rule ‘gagging’ scientists [The Guardian]

The environment photographers you should be following on Instagram [The Guardian]

UK taxpayers handed Shell $123m in 2015 [Carbon Brief]

How One Cougar Can Plant 94,000 Seeds a Year [Atlas Obscura]

Point Roberts – An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the “49th parallel rule” became problematic. [Atlas Obscura]

‘Betty’ the ash tree offers hope against deadly dieback disease [The Guardian]

The Week in Wildlife – In pictures [The Guardian]

EDF delays Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant [The Guardian]

Each week I’ll try and post quick links to things that I’ve seen, read or just sparked my interest in the previous week. Mostly gardening, cooking and environmental stuff but not always.

How To Make A Bumblebee Nest Box

The Week In Wildlife – In pictures [The Guardian] 

France gives go ahead to Hinkley Point, French minister says [The Guardian]

From Africa to Somerset – sand martins lead the way [The Guardian]

Each week I’ll try and post quick links to things that I’ve seen, read or just sparked my interest in the previous week. Mostly gardening, cooking and environmental stuff but not always.

Apple says you can “feel really good” about buying its products. Don’t believe them. [Grist Blog]

Ash dieback and beetle attack likely to ‘wipe out’ all ash trees in UK and Europe [The Guardian]

Small copper butterfly in ‘inexorable decline’, according to survey [The Guardian]

The Week in Wildlife – In Pictures [The Guardian]

Each week I’ll try and post quick links to things that I’ve seen, read or just sparked my interest in the previous week. Mostly gardening, cooking and environmental stuff but not always.

Did Native Americans Bend These Trees to Mark Trails? [Atlas Obscura]

Keeping Dogs Out of Harms Way [The Bark Blog]

Life Saving Carabiners [The Bark Blog]

The Obsessively Detailed Map of American Literature’s Most Epic Road Trips [Atlas Obscura]

Malta gives go ahead to shooting of 5,000 endangered turtle doves [The Guardian]

The Week In Wildlife – In Pictures [The Guardian]

World Sparrow Day [The Guardian]

No quick links last week, so here’s an almost double dose for the last two weeks:

Each week I’ll try and post quick links to things that I’ve seen, read or just sparked my interest in the previous week. Mostly gardening, cooking and environmental stuff but not always.

Runner Bean Chutney [Home Grown Kate Blog]

UK’s wildlife crime unit wins late reprieve from closure [The Guardian]

Florida drops bill to open fracking in the Everglades after public outcry [The Guardian]

The Week In Wildlife – In Pictures (4th March) [The Guardian]

Decision to end funding of local environmental record centres attacked [The Guardian]

Hollowed-out Defra leaves in doubt key functions, MPs say [The Guardian]

MIT researchers turn waste gas into liquid fuel [The Guardian]

Hinkley investment decision soon, says EDF chief after finance director resigns [The Guardian]

No legally binding contract in £18bn Hinkley Point nuclear project [The Guardian]

Solar storage tiles and paint: how to make old homes more energy efficient [The Guardian]

Record fines for UK property developer who destroyed bat roost [The Guardian]

Give support to Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project, government told [The Guardian]

Hinkley Point branded potentially risky for EDF by French auditor [The Guardian]

What Should You Plant if You’ve Never Gardened Before? [Grist Blog]

The Week In Wildlife – In Pictures (11th March) [The Guardian]

If Hinkley Point doesn’t go ahead, it could be lights out for one big political career [The Guardian]

February breaks global temperature records by ‘shocking’ amount [The Guardian]

Eric & Petty – Mutual Rescue

Gennaro Contaldo – Vegetable & Pancetta Penne

Auyán-tepui’s Death Star trench – Steve Backshall’s Extreme Mountain Challenge – BBC Two

 

Each week I’ll try and post quick links to things that I’ve seen, read or just sparked my interest in the previous week. Mostly gardening, cooking and environmental stuff but not always.

[NOTE: There’ll be no quick links next week.]

Yukon Quest: 14 sled dogs, 4 mountain ranges, 1,000 miles – and total devotion [The Guardian]

Chris Packham photographs the impact of litter – in pictures [The Guardian]

The Black Fish: undercover with the vigilantes fighting organised crime at sea [The Guardian]

Green investment bank ‘no longer required by law to invest in green projects’ [The Guardian]

EU referendum opinion tracker: energy and climate change [Carbon Brief]

Stakes raised for black-throated finch’s largest remaining habitat on Adani mine site [The Guardian]

The Week in Wildlife – In Pictures [The Guardian]

Al Gore: The Case for Optimism on Climate Change [TED Talk]

Zombie Apocalypse Science

 

Each week I’ll try and post quick links to things that I’ve seen, read or just sparked my interest in the previous week. Mostly gardening, cooking and environmental stuff but not always.

Why don’t we treat climate change with the rigor we give to terror attacks? [The Guardian]

Britain’s got talons: the writer raised on raptors [The Guardian]

Make a honk for rare geese [The Guardian – Patrick Barkham]

The week in wildlife – In pictures [The Guardian]