‘Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink!’ This is the well-known quote taken from Coleridge, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798). If…
Summer is well under way and hopefully you have heard the sound of bees busy in the bushes and flowers around the village. I say…
At Westfest in 2021, you, the community of our village, asked for a community garden. We at Green Westcott, listened and have been beavering away…
The climate crisis and the cost-of-living crisis are inextricably linked. The climate crisis is a threat multiplier – it makes existing problems far worse. Extreme…
The planet is in crisis. We have seen the parched landscape this summer and felt the heat of our warming climate – the warmest seven…
Nancy Lund When thinking about what to write, I got to thinking about what irks me? At the moment it’s plastic. Now don’t get me…
The final sentence of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, which was released at the end of February this year, clearly states the…
What a wonderful village we live in! WestFest was a resounding success, and it was great to see so many people come to the event,…
Do you find yourself wishing there was more you could be doing locally to improve the environment and the planet? Here in Westcott there are…