Building new homes to passivhaus standard, would reduce the cooling demand. Insulation protects against heat in summer as well as cold in winter. Dense bio insulation such as straw, woodfibre or hemp have a long temperature buffering period up to 18 hours, protecting against heat spikes for longer.

Very flat calm in the #Solent today! Beautiful, but I'd prefer a nice sea breeze...

Subterranean, Clustered & Suffocated Clovers together with Rough & Bird's-foot (no pic) Clovers nearby at Lee-on-the Solent early morn. Plenty of other peas too & Knotted is surely hiding there but it can wait for a cooler moment... #WildflowerHour

I’m not sure if we’ve become desensitised or what but there are high res models showing 35-36C on Tuesday. “It’s just summer” apparently in final spring month. The much touted 1976 summer never got hotter than 35.9C in early July. We are in May….

The UK is likely going to see its hottest spring day on record by some margin in the next few days. The climate we built for no longer exists. The climate we’re in isn’t even well-defined, as things continue to change faster than we observe the extremes. We are underprepared.

If you fancy a no-fly overseas trip take the train to the #Dordogne. Loads to see and great food!!!

Tawny Owl chicks and Roseate Tern were other highlights from today's visit to Titchfield Haven & Hill Head #LowCarbonBirding

Lots of pink at Hill Head & Titchfield Haven including Sea Pink (Thrift) and Sand Spurrey by Meonshore Chalets, and Southern Marsh Orchids on the reserve #WildflowerHour

Strolled over to Hill Head after scoping the White-winged Tern from Lee-on-the Solent, under the impression views were closer 😂 Sadly not by the time I arrived, but still a lovely late May treat! Thanks to M Francis for finding #HantsBirds #LowCarbonBirding

Gas prices keep climbing—but your commute costs don’t have to. 🚲⚡ What if switching from a car to an e-bike could save you $8,000+ per year? From fuel and parking to insurance and maintenance, the savings add up fast. Plus, with every ride turning daily travel into something more affordable, enjoy

White-winged Tern off Hill Head 😍 (& visible from Lee/Salterns too) - thanks to MF #PWC2026 #HamtsBirds

High levels of PFAS - linked to cancers, liver, kidney + thyroid disorders - found in the sea in the Solent strait. The main source is thought to be treated sewage. They're present in sewage because we're surrounded by them in our daily lives. share.google/yLF9gGRNyKok... 🧵 1/6

Sea breezes and shaded paths are even more welcome on days like today 😌 Not looking forward to the next few days weather wise...

When infrastructure treats bikes as serious transportation, society stops treating them as children's toys.

Soggy walk this morning around Lee-on-the Solent including parts I'd not checked before yielded Suffocated & Clustered Clovers side by side! 🥳 #WildflowerHour

Mainly searching for clovers along the coast on foot today, but a short visit to Titchfield Haven yielded Little Gull and Roseate Tern! Both digi-binned! #PWC2026 #LowCarbonBirding

Quick #RStudio question is there an experimental ARM64 RStudio for Windows please? Have spotted the versions for Mac & Linux + ARM64 version of R (aarch64). Hindsight's a wonderful thing - didn't need such software when I chose current laptop!

As it's #NationalWalkingMonth, the next book naturally has to be Annabel Street's 52 Ways to Walk #BookSky It's been good to finally start making time for reading books I hadn't got round to reading over the years ☺️ A nice way to wind down before bed. On that note, it's time for a walk!

Enjoyed reading Where the Wild Flowers Grow by Leif Bersweden - the enthusiasm really comes through & I could picture the scenes in each chapter! Even better that the adventures were #LowCarbonTravel by train & bicycle #BookSky

Ideas please: somewhere scenic in europe for a hiking holiday, preferably reachable by train, and not too expensive or crowded. Bonus points if I get to hear about your trip and see pics! #Hiking

Of course, cyclists know better than most that road danger is seen like the weather. When they complain about risk the response they get frequently amounts to "You should wear a coat and a hat"

Right time, right place this morning when 2 Avocets flew past home! 😄 If it hadn't been a commute day I'd probably be on patch & missed 'em #HantsBirds 🪶

The harms of traffic are seen like the weather. It's just something that happens, and if we don't like it we just have to shelter #motonormativity

And folk wonder why we talk about ecological breakdowns: in the past on this sort of date, today's brisk, chilly headwind would have been a dead cert to produce a strong passage of Swifts and a good fall of migrants; today we logged 3 Swifts and 28 nets - many open for 10 hours - caught 5 migrants!

Need some flight free holiday inspiration? Then you definitely want to join us for our online event, 'Destination: Spain'. 45 minutes of flight free stories followed by a Q&A. Let's get planning that next adventure! Weds 20th May, free tickets below. www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...

🎯🎯post by @kashprime.bsky.social on XTwitter (didn't see it posted here yet): "The original sin of the Covid pandemic was not acknowledging airborne spread early, despite SARS1 having been airborne (we learned the hard way in Toronto in 2003). It looks like some are..." OP: x.com/KashPrime/st...

Are these Rough Clover? At Lee-on-the Solent #WildflowerHour #WildflowerID

This is the best cycling advert ever, especially because I’m in it. It beautifully shows that cycling is for everyone, no matter who you are or where you come from. Bikes bring people together and remind us that cycling is one of the best ways to improve our health and wellbeing.

We're "excessively lax" about holding motorists accountable for their actions because for decades every level of society - including the people who should be keeping us safe - have seen motor harm as inevitable anf outside anyone's control #motonormativity www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...

Exactly this! Kids shouldn't need adults to get from A to B safely. They need safe infrastructure, enabling them to go places independently!

Garden Warbler was one lovely part of the woodland soundscape yesterday evening ☺️ Great way to mark completing another module & grateful to DW for a lift! #HantsBirds

How dare you play ball games and have fun outside!

Wow, Beavers have been seen at Blashford Lakes!

Accessible should also mean accessible by public transport. We don't need more car parks on South Downs and the ones that exist should cost more to help subsidise active travel @bettertransport.bsky.social @transportaction.bsky.social @sussexuk.bsky.social

Ragged-Robin, White Bryony and loads of Hemlock Water-dropwort at Titchfield Haven, and buttercups at Lee-on-the Solent #WildflowerHour

Also at Titchfield Haven - any snail experts? Could this be Oxyloma elegans? Habitat would fit. #UKWildlife

Little Gull & 2 Hobbies the best birds at Titchfield Haven today! Also Broad-bodied Chasers chasing each other and Large Red Damselfly. #LowCarbonBirding #PWC2026

Round 1 of trying to pick out a Manx Shearwater from a distance fishing flock in the murk earlier was not that successful... Not completely given up though! #PWC2026 #LowCarbonBirding

Morning fog on a SE in early May should have grounded migrants written all over it, based on past experience, so the almost total absence of any obvious migrants at St Aldhelm's Head this morning (bar a flyover Tree Pipit & 50 odd Swallow) was somewhat concerning... @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Really good advice here for sending in high quality records! 1km (or better as explained in the video for breeding & roost/feeding sites like wader or geese fields in winter etc etc) is helpful for using the records in conservation & planning. #UKBirding #HantsBirds

Last week we talked about how to submit records of rare breeding birds. This week we move onto what those records should contain - the details - precise location, numbers, breeding evidence and so on - to make them as useful as possible for the work of the RBBP. youtu.be/HSl4RpMrT8k?...

Do it! Or enjoy a dawn chorus soundscape recording if you can't. I have the joy of being naturally awake before sunrise almost every day where I live 😅 (even more so since realising I'd not been winding down or sleeping at the right times for me...)

Bridge Street Floods is looking great for waders at the mo, with Greenshank (& possibly more hiding) during a quick pre-work trip Downside is watching from a dual carriageway which is soooo noisy, and not fun! #PWC2026 #LowCarbonBirding

Regarding those possible max life sentences for cyclists who kill... Driver on wrong side of major trunk road. Already banned. Over the limit for drugs. twice the speed limit. Killed his passenger when he crashed. 12 yrs 9 mts in jail. 13 year driving ban www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Vision Zero, but where we address the death and injury arising from motoring externalities as well as risky road layouts.

Of course, I'd rather see investigation into the structural factors that led to these deaths, to stop something similar happening again.

Now I've got my eye in... another good patch of Subterranean Clover around the Meonshore Chalets! The grassland there looks interesting #WildflowerHour

Fancy getting involved with @bbs-birds.bsky.social? If you live in the mid or north of Hampshire, there are squares available! Visit www.bto.org/get-involved... to read more or contact the BTO coordinator. #HantsBirds

Wheatear & 2 Common Sandpipers at Hill Head were highlights from very brief pre-commute birding! #PWC2026 #LowCarbonBirding

Am I actually too stupid to understand how we can have an affordable (cheap af) CO2 price—if your country even has such a thing—when every gram of CO2 we emit is depriving us of the very foundations of our existence? Are you more concerned about the economy or climate and biodiversity collaps?