Marine Furet

By: Marine Furet (Nesta) In this blog post, author Marine Furet discusses the importance of decarbonising the UK’s housing stock to cut carbon emissions. According to the Seventh Carbon Budget, a major increase in the adoption of low-carbon heating technologies, such as heat pumps, is essential to achieving net zero. Meeting this challenge requires large-scale solutions.

Philip Henry calls for the restoration of biodiversity corridors through the creation of pollinator-friendly infrastructure. The word anthology comes from the Greek word Anthologia, meaning a collection, or a bouquet, of flowers. This etymology echoes the activities of our pollinators, especially our honeybees, whose daily activities to pollinate flowers feed into our staple foods and our bouquets alike. Bees are essential to human activity and life.

Andy Bevan praises Carwyn Graves’s Tir: The Story of the Welsh Landscape (2024). Published in the midst of high-stakes negotiations between farmers’ organisations and the Welsh Government on land use and livelihoods – and in the context of a Europe-wide rumbling rural rebellion – Carwyn Graves’ new book is more than a history of the Welsh landscape. It is an important contribution to contemporary politics and our understanding of what Welsh culture is.