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Waiting to Credit Marvels

on global justice, climate change, cricket, living in Winchester and other trials of patience

Local net zero plans need renewable energy goals

UK local authorities should set targets for renewable energy, to achieve net zero and to counter misleading objections to solar farms.

Published September 18, 2022
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged local authorities, renewable energy, solar farms

Lost sporting prints from the pubs of Winchester

Pubs have had a terrible time over Covid. But that’s no excuse for the disappearance of my four favourite sporting prints in Winchester pubs.

Published July 23, 2022
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cricket, winchester

UK solar farm pipeline: a chance to shine for local authorities

Concern for national energy security puts pressure on councillors to stand up for their own net-zero policies and encourage support for solar farm planning applications.

Published May 22, 2022
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged energy security, local authorities, solar farms

Renewable Energy in Winchester District: 2022 Report

This report details the amount of electricity generated in Winchester District and discusses an appropriate local target for 2050

Published February 28, 2022
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged LAEP, renewable energy, solar farms, winchester

Report writing in three acts

Before the advent of word processing and storage devices, reports and minutes were mercifully brief. Now we’ve lost control.

Published February 27, 2022
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged digital communications, UK energy

The hook shot: in search of Mike Bushby the cricketer

A tribute to the cricketing life of Mike Bushby, captain of Cambridge University in 1954. Fearless against fast bowling, a great fielder, now much missed.

Published December 20, 2021
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Solar Farms: the revenge of Gen Z?

Covid has accelerated intergenerational inequality. Young climate activists could back UK proposals to expand solar farms, defying Baby Boomer objections.

Published December 20, 2020
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged inequality, solar farms

Ignore the elephant in the Itchen at our peril

How can Winchester City Council announce a flood defences scheme without mentioning climate change? It feels as though there’s an embargo on the phrase which is not good for policy-making or for the design of this important scheme.

Published January 20, 2019
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate adaptation, flood defences, winchester

The accent of motherhood is out of the box

Readings of The Republic of Motherhood by Liz Berry may offer fresh opportunities to reveal the emotional power of her Black Country dialect.

Published September 16, 2018
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged poetry, winchester

Defence of refugee law sets Aquarius on Mediterranean collision course

The NGO rescue ship Aquarius aims to prevent migrants being returned to Libya despite orders from the European Council not to interfere.

Published August 5, 2018
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged migration, refugees

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A blog by Bill Gunyon

Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things