Reconomics 3.0, the UK’s big reminder that the outdoors is not a “nice to have”

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Walking is the UK’s biggest, most equitable, most scalable outdoor activity. Reconomics 3.0 shows that walking leads participation across outdoor sport and recreation, dominates how people use green and natural spaces, and underpins major health, wellbeing, and local economic benefits.

Buzz Club: citizen science you can do from a balcony, a back garden, or a single plant pot

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We’re excited to share The Buzz Club, a citizen science community run from the University of Sussex, directed by Professor Dave Goulson, led by Issy Sexton and powered by hundreds of volunteers who are helping answer a deceptively big question: what actually works for insects in the places we live?

Wassail, and the art of singing an orchard into the future

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Amongst the trees of Bermondsey, we gather in winter with cups in hand and voices ready. This is wassailing – a thank-you to the orchard for what it gives, and a bright, noisy promise of what it will one day become. “Old apple tree, we’ll wassail thee,” we sing, “and hoping thou wilt bear.” Bloom well and bear well, so merry let us be.

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