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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

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New report from wildjustice: Habitat degradation could to lead to a drop in UK GDP of between 6-12% by the 2030s. Delivering 300,000 homes a year blows entire carbon budget for England. Where's the enforcement for developers reneging on planning promises? theconversation.com/property-dev...

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Drip drip drip...we love visiting our SlowFlow and rain gardens in the rain! Here's one we installed last year at Darwin Nurseries. Take a look at the flow director, a cast of an coiled ammonite from Sedgwick museum by our friends at Phoenix Trust. #flowersnotfloods #placesfornature #placesforwater

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If life is to thrive in Cambridge in this time of freshwater scarcity, we need bold and brave acts to address abstraction and water use. Just published - what are the practical and legal challenges? Thanks @acarpen.bsky.social www.ewsc.org.uk/action-areas...

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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

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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.

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Humans working to restore lost species and places at many scales. From bee orchids and butterflies on a verge in Newcastle to the jungle and jaguar in a national parks in Argentina. We must do this because "Nature cannot afford your self-doubt". #rewilding

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Yesterday @claratee.bsky.social and Yair joined many brilliant people at the #sustainableshepreth Ecofair 2025, including our trestle tablemate Nick, who works on water resilience. Thanks for the soup, tea, and great conversations about water, nature, and life in the village in a changing climate!

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Best wishes to you all for the new year. Have a happy and hydrated 2025. 💙

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High levels of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, metals and industrial chemicals as well as e.coli found in England's inland designated bathing waters including the River Cam in a study led by @watershed-i.bsky.social. www.itv.com/news/2024-12...

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Major new research finds “shockingly” fast changes to flows of Earth’s c. 3 million rivers, mapped across 35 years. “Rivers are dynamic and beautiful beasts & humans should never take them for granted or squander the resources they provide us with.” (Hannah Cloke) www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/c...

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Over 70% of the world's aquifers could be tainted by 2100 from saltwater incursion www.zmescience.com/science/news... via @zmescience

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28% of microplastics entering the environment annually are from tyres. Chemical additives like zinc oxide & 6PPD linked to fish die-offs and ecosystem disruption. Need for a global, targeted strategy theconversation.com/car-tyres-sh...

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How may we #slowtheflow and grow #flowersnotfloods? A day of #rainlab demonstrations and chat at Phoenix Trust Christmas event in #milton!

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We need law, we need policy Holly Smith presenting some incredible work on #surfacewaterstrategy #climateresilience #ciria #sudsforschools across London. big and holistic use of #suds #surfacewater. Innovation focuses on surface water. Greater London Authority. #suds #sustrain #ciria at #floodex.

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#suds #sustrain at #floodex. Coordinate, collaborate, consistency, keep on going! The importance and benefit of making places for water and trees as well as houses in new developments with Bill Blackledge of 2B Landscape Consultancy Ltd.

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Phil Williams EPG, Neil Sewell SDS, Jo Bradley of Stormwater Shepherds. Treatment Trains approach to dealing with road runoff at source, and frustration with #schedule3 legislation being stalled again. #floodex #sustainabledrainage #suds #raingardens

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Panel discussion with the brilliant @jobradley.bsky.social of Stormwater Shepherds UK at #sudstheatre at #floodex with an impassioned plea not just for installing #SuDS but maintaining SuDS...long term often left out of the planning and costing of projects. #schedule3 #susdrain

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🎉 We're excited to share a video we created highlighting the first six months of the Fallowfield Rain Gardens project! This project marks our initial pilot in developing cost-effective, retrofit rain gardens, making the most of Cambridge's green assets and roadside spaces. youtu.be/8i3MleWtjbA?...

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Three water companies blocked by Ofwat from using customer money to fund executive bonuses www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Here's a thorough explanation of the new agreement in Denmark to reduce emissions from ag.

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Drainage and land use change has turned the Fens of East Anglia - the location of half of England's grade 1 agricultural land - from carbon sink to carbon emitter. For meaningful action for the UK's net zero targets, we need to rewet peat at scale.

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Our event last month "brought together water-attentive voices to encounter, explore what it means to care for & think about engaging our whole selves – our heads, hands, & hearts – in our relationships with water." My, Anastasia has a way with words. ❤️

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💦 In just six months, we saved thousands of litres of road run-off from the drain. An ordinary grass verge near the River Cam in Cambridge is now a rain garden full of flowers 🌼! This supports biodiversity 🐝 while reducing river pollution & flooding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i3M...

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Proud to be part of the Cam & Ely Ouse Catchment Partnership collaboratively working for better health of our local water bodies. Citizen Science and road run-off pollution were the focus of this year's conference www.cameopartnership.org/cameo-confer...

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Greetings! A tentative flutter in this Blue Sky space. We are a small group working toward a better relationship with water, with our head, heart and hands. Come plant the rain with us!

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