The new book by naturalist/author Polly Pullar, The Horizontal Oak, is a personal one, looking at...
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FESTIVAL PROGRAMME SCANS PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
New insights into the origins of bere in Orkney fields, and of potatoes on a high Bolivian plateau...
A solar mirror of whitening light
Imagine a beam of energy so powerful that it can melt iron or steel – or even titanium. Picture how...
Changing our thinking to bring about meaningful environmental...
Broad-leaved trees can grow almost anywhere sheep and deer are largely excluded. You can see...
A walk to the Stenness and Brodgar stones
A soggy Sunday, then the day cleared and we went for a walk, pretty much following this route.In...
An epic of steam and steel
John Goodlad’s new book The Salt Roads tells how the salt fish trade connected Shetland with the...
Transition to the future
Globally we face massive problems. There is often general agreement about what we want for the long...
Urban regeneration: Creating paradise by your back door
Six months ago we – my daughter, myself and Mushka our dog – moved into a small terraced property...
Build a model wind turbine!
It’s a challenge for schools, primary and secondary: to design and build a model wind turbine...
Oh, starboard your helm!
This time it could be the big one. Fire on the Amazon, fire in Siberia, a dome of heat above the...