HS2 is all over the headlines again, but what will its local impact be?

Josh Kubale from the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trusts joins Amanda to explain their objections.

And Jon Horsfield of Butterfly World 2.0 also has objections - this time over plans for the old Butterfly World site.

 

Dan Fletcher from St.Albans RSPB invites you to join in this year's Big Garden Birdwatch and Jem Silverstone from St.Albans Greenpeace talks about their up coming film and campaigns they'll be pursuing this year.

Trees are being hailed as an essential part of the solution to both climate change and biodiversity loss. St.Albans District Council Leader and Climate and Environment Portfolio Holder Chris White discusses plans for an extensive tree planting programme for St.Albans.

Herts County Council has outlined its ideas for more sustainable transport in and around St.Albans.

Do the plans go far enough and could you suggest better ideas?

Cllr Derek Ashley explains the proposals and John Metcalf of St.Albans Cycle Campaign gives his views

With calls to decarbonize our energy getting louder every day, Herts County Cllr Ralph Sangster describes plans for a new solar farm at Smallford Pit.

Hear from local 6th former Olivia who talks about her petition aimed at keeping coffee cups out of landfill.

Newly appointed Wilder St.Albans Project Officer Heidi Carruthers ([email protected]) talks about how she’s getting started and how we can help.

And Ali Insall invites us to the Hertfordshire Environment Hustings.

You'll also hear about the Wilderhood Watch Sunflower  the Sustainable St.Albans Growing Your Own Food event.

The second part of the series "Your Forest" focuses on the benefits to our health - physical and mental - of time spent in the natural environment of woodland, forests and other green spaces.  This nationwide project encourages listeners to record one minute of the sounds of nature and send it to wildrumpus.org.uk/yourforest so they can be added to many other recordings sent in from across the country.

Have Herts County Council's plans for a waste incinerator to dispose of your waste gone up in smoke? Amanda Yorwerth speaks to Cllr Terry Hone, HCC Cabinet Member for Waste Management to find out.

Plus, we catch up with one of the young protesters who were blocking the road in St.Albans last weekend.

 

Call them green manures or call them cover crops, they have so many benefits for the soil on farms, allotments or even in our gardens.

But they may be even better than we previously thought. Waitrose sponsored Rothamsted PhD student Mandy Stoker is researching the possible benefits for climate change of cover crops on farms, and Chris Thorne or Ayletts Nurseries explains how we can use them on a smaller scale.

Last week's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report said we need to change the way we use land and grow food if we are to tackle climate change.

Rothamsted scientists are on to it. Hannah McGrath and Dr. Adriana Torres-Ballesteros give an insight into the report and explain what they're doing to help.