Happy #earthday 🌍🌎🌏
Let's celebrate our incredible corner of the universe! 🤗
We're transforming public spaces, schools & private gardens, making room for rainwater, flowers, & all beings 🌧️🌻🦋
Want to do the same? Follow for tips, DM for collaborations!
#flowersnotfloods #rainwater #springhassprung
🌏 Explore 4.6 billion years of Earth history with
a Deep Time Walk 👣 in Cambridge. Two events just added:
- Wed 22 April 5-8pm (for Earth Day)
- Saturday 31 May 11am-3pm (for Cambridge Nature Festival)
www.tickettailor.com/events/water...
Inclusion of more-than-human-voices in decision-making: Interspecies council led by Phoebe Tickell in Norway www.theguardian.com/environment/...
New Right to Grow law in a London burrough. Residents can adopt unloved verges and scraps of land to grow food. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What do we know about the water quality from Jesus Green to Bait's Bite? Do rowers get sick? 'Rowers Against Sewage' seeks to understand the risk to rowers & other river users from E. coli through 12 weeks of water-quality testing & community engagement.
www.watersencam.co.uk/services/row...
Lovely tribute to Jean Perraton in the latest Cam Valley Forum newsletter. Jean was a keen wild swimmer, campaigning for people to reclaim their watery freedom. Designated Bathing Water Status at Sheep's Green brings hope for a cleaner River Cam. Thanks Jean, we miss you substack.com/home/post/p-...
Wishing you all a very #HappyNewYear!
Support water & nature in the River Cam Catchment effortlessly - with the @easyuk plugin, a portion of your online purchase can go to the non-profit @watersencam. We can bring our Rain Lab to more schools & communities, and put more rain in the ground. www.easyfundraising.org.uk/support-a-go...
Just a few spaces now for Water Night at the Technology Museum on Riverside (Pye building) on Wednesday at 6:30pm. Come join us to discuss local water and how some residents manage their use in the home & garden. Part of #cambridgeopenecohomes for CCF. Free. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/water-sens...
Comment on exciting new water course creation on #SheepsGreen #cambridge (north of Fen Causeway) for fish passes/general biodiversity. 🐟 engage.cambridge.gov.uk/en-GB/projec...
cambridgeppf.org/etn/rof-pure-c… Tonight 6:30pm Leper Chapel: PURE CLEAN WATER.
A primer on water crisis & economic pressures in Cambridge, portrait of a chalk stream and medieval engineering.
Our oldest surviving intact building is a beautiful cinema for one more night. #riversoffilm
Pembroke auditorium - audience
Linton village hall - audience
Storeys field Eddington - audience
Museum of Cambridge - audience
Some highlights from the #riversoffilm festival so far: oysters, ocean trawling devastation, #worldriversday poetry, chalk streams & dreams, company of filmmakers who love their rivers and life within and good audiences. Don't miss #ourblueworld cambridgeppf.org/riversoffilm/
Excited to start a rainwater harvesting project to support trees at #stmatthewspiece Community Orchard. Working with #petersfield residents, @camcitco.bsky.social, On the verge Cambridge and others at #stmatthewsgardens / #yorkstreet. Extra hands, smiles & tea most welcome!
Cambridge Rivers of Film Festival: Films & film-related events to inspire care, curiosity & action for our rivers and oceans.
Main: 23 Sept - 4th Oct. cambridgeppf.org/riversoffilm/
Tickets at no cost or at affordable prices, thanks to our event partners & #RiverCamCAN
The draft Local Nature Recovery Strategy is open for comment until 11 Sept. The LNRS describes our most precious habitats in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, including chalk streams & fen habitats. For benefit of future generations & our non-human kin yourvoice.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/lnrs/consult...
Seeking volunteers 🙏🏼 for The Cambridge Rivers of Film Festival
23rd Sept – 4th Oct.
Partnering with cambridgeppf.bsky.social to bring an exciting programme of films, workshops & other events focused on rivers this Autumn. We seek volunteers like you! #riversoffilmfestival #rivercamcan
Glorious morning with 100 other river lovers on a flotilla of punts, paddle boards, canoes and kayaks showing love for our #rivercam. Message to @anglianwater.bsky.social : try harder to #cleanitup! #camvalleyforum @sascampaigns.bsky.social #paddleoutprotest #puntandpaddleout
Care about water and how it's "managed" in the UK?Last few days to respond to this consultation: consult.defra.gov.uk/independent-...
bit.ly/3DKLbOH
For the love of River - don't forget to come to the excellent film Rave On the Avon on Saturday 3:30pm at the Arts Picturehouse - advance tickets available. With a Q&A at the end with the film director and local water/river campaigners.
Discovering Newmarket's forgotten chalk stream and the local people tracing its path in light and love
Rave On the Avon Film / Q&A with director Charlotte Sawyer and local clean water campaigners Anne Miller cam valley forum, Ruth Sapsed & chaired by James M-W @sky_larking. March 22nd 3:30pm, @CamPicturehouse. @CambridgePPF Get your ticket: bit.ly/3DKLbOH
Wild swimming and designated bathing water regulations reform is high on the agenda. Debate yesterday in parliament, #southcambs MP @pippaheylings.bsky.social gave a brilliant speech. Watch the debate here.
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
New #slowflow rain planters outside of 110-113 Fallowfield Cambridge. Grasses, ferns, herbs & flowers feed pollinators, while preventing 100s of litres of stormwater from overwhelming pipe & ponding at Fen Rd. Low cost #suds retrofit for climate resilient streets. #pebblefund
💙 Charlotte Sawyer's celebration of the Bristol community, life and wild swimming in Cambridge! March 22 3:30, #picturehousegreenscreen, and #riversoffilm
The panel features fimmakers & local water loving groups. Continue conversation in the cafe afterwards. 💦
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
Day 1 complete! Our friends at Phoenix delivered four gorgeous handmade planters to us in Fallowfield, ready to transform into #slowflow rain planters. After a day of sun, rain, mud, we'll soon be ready to plant leafy shade-loving beings here #raingardens #flowersnotfloods #pebblefund
Watch this. The story of how California got screwed over for its water by a billionaire couple who are more commonly known for philanthropy, glitzy hollywood parties and quirky advertising.
www.pistachiowars.com
Someone said to me the other day, "It's okay if you mess up sometimes; It's much better to have lots of people trying their best and doing what they can in their imperfect ways, than a few people being perfect." x
Proud to introduce this new project by @watersencam.bsky.social in Cambridge.
Funded by #PebbleFund for biodiversity, we'll be installing six of our #SlowFlow planters in the catchment of Fallowfield's surface water drain pipe.
Not only reducing floods, bringing back nature 🌻
youtu.be/82bCVmH0GWI
A ginger tufted common Calder bee feasting on a purple stalk of woodland sage on a street corner
To help you get through #BlueMonday, here's a picture of some gorgeous purple wands of woodland sage being enjoyed by a carder bee in the Fallowfield Rain Gardens last year. Whatever is getting you down today, remember life persists. There will be spring.
Last panel session of the brilliant Rewilding Futures conference right here in Cambridge. Two days of inspirational talks and workshops from global practitioners, by Citizen Zoo.
