Bike nomad turned electric van nomad, boycotting fossil-fuels, working on reforestation and ancient woodland restoration as co-founder of Protect Earth. he/him
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Last Notes npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub15ph…2722 I’ve just written the perfect article for your concerns there. https://philsturgeon.com/unf-king-the-climate-renewable-energy/ npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Everyone needs to understand that the biodiversity crisis isn’t just some vague academic concern for ecologists to flap about, it’s literally a threat to our continued existence. Eg: Indian vultures vanish, almost 100%, and it caused 500,000 human deaths. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c28e2pvzn3lo npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon The limiting factor in the housing crisis is that homes are unaffortable, so building loads won't help. This is no longer a "NIMBY argument", this is what the housing developers are saying themselves. We need to build affordable homes! #UK #Housing #HousingCrisis https://www.independent.co.uk/business/barratt-set-to-build-fewer-homes-as-mortgage-costs-hit-demand-b2577198.html npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1779…q7el thank you! It got me out of bed this morning tbh. Was realy struggling but now I’m at 50mi! npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon 🚴 I’m about to do something real dumb. I’ve got 4.5 days to cycle ~500 miles from Calais to Zurich for This Next Thing to talk about climate tech and making tech green. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1779…q7el thanks Simon! How’s your certificate looking? npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon I’m so excited every time my phone bings to let us know another amazing donor has sponsored another tree or meter of hedgerow. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1455…yzwj but I’m not French. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon There is no War on Cars in the U.K. only different levels of pandering, but if we wanted to start a war in our cities it should absolutely look like Paris. https://mastodon.social/@TheWarOnCars/112555685224027481 npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon “I live in the countryside, I need a 2 ton petrol 4x4 suv/pickup truck to drive from my greenbelt housing to the big Tescos, nothing else could handle it.” npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon All done working in the woods for right now. I’ve got a train pasty, a train cider, and the Struggle Bus is off with Sam the Bristol Campervan Man. It’s time to pop back home to the Netherlands!! npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub199j…5e8h yeah I’ve said a billion times where that chainsaws aren’t the only threat to our ancient woodlands and fragile ecosystems. Climate change and invasive species rank infinitely higher than a train. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Sadly adding @GreenpeaceUK to the list of individuals and organizations who propagated the obvious lie about 108 ancient woodlands being "damaged or destroyed" for HS2. Wittingly or unwittingly, they helped axe a major climate solution through ignorance. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub10pt…n606 my line is usually “any decent cider in a box, or is it just thatchers again?” npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1lre…2q4a thank you! Surrounded by amazing people thankfully or it wouldn’t be happening. 💪🏼 npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Everything is everything. Allen keys are wine openers and bottle openers. Shampoo is chain degresaser. Olive oil is chain lubricant. Learn to use what you got instead of worrying about what you dont got. #bikepacking #outdoors https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeQKAAMY/ npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1lre…2q4a yeah I am literally losing track of the years but I got some pretty tall trees and that makes me happy. Buying more land. Hiring more people. Scale. Scale. SCALE! npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon The Labour Party has essentially been “Tories in Red Ties” for ages but it’s becoming entirely literal with more defectors expected. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Hang on it’s three and a half years but four planting seasons. It’s honestly been that much of a blur. 🤣 npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Do I know anyone with experience in recruiting new trustees for a charity? Looking to expand with a few different experts in various fields. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1r73…9ysd absolutely. I vote for the only party who supports PR. Sadly Labour (Stalmer specifically) are definitely not supportive of the idea of even trying. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1r73…9ysd you’re talking about general election, this was local elections. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1r73…9ysd Lib Dem and Green gains here show this literally is not a two horse race. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon The people of England have spoken, and with a powerful and undeniable voice we have said: npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon How tall are French deer?! npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Brits: Hands up if these French train fines are cheaper than your actual train ticket. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1wtf…cucp sealant should have got it, and tubeless plugs would have fixed it if not, but the rim tape got destroyed so I couldn’t keep the tyre tubeless. Just slapped a tube in there and I’m all good again. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub19np…48ac went through the rim tape so plug wouldn’t help. Always go for a plug when I can, I’ve even been known to make makeshift ones. https://youtu.be/Cg8wEGENPJQ?si=Ozt2ri9Iwp8ILyhU npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1vll…ll92 is PSR still a thing? npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon 🚴 Rear tyre got absolutely nailed! npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1puk…78aa I’m British, when it gets to 28°C like this we start dying in droves. I claim medical and cultural exception. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon It’s my 6th or 7th trip across Spain, I’ve got thousands of miles on my belt here, but it’s the first time I’ve been pulled over and sat on the naughty step by traffic cops for not wearing a helmet. 🤣 npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1eg2…wqz5 I wish! Straight shot from Santander to Barcelona then a ferry to Majorca. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Big goals for today, aiming for 200km of pannier dragging through thankfully fairly flat terrain (1400m mainly in the middle). It’s a Bristol to London day, and will leave me with only 400km left over 3 days. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Our Crowdfunder to buy land in the Wilder Marshes for woodland and habitat creation is now being matched by Aviva Community Fund, so for every £1 you contribute they’ll put in another £1, up to £250! Lets go! #Nature #CommunityWoodland #Biodiversity https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/creating-a-wildlife-refuge-in-the-wilder-marshes npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1s6r…ftnn thank you!! npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon The trickiest crowdfunder we've ever been involved with! We've got about a week to raise funding for an amazing new community woodland and wildlife refuge near @ProtectEarthUK's Goytre Wood and @rwtwales' Pentwyn & Cnwch Bank. One week to raise £30k! It’s always slow to start but there’s always a snowball effect, so please help get this one rolling. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1uhy…092q let’s do both npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Planting season done. Spades are back in storage. Getting in the pool today I swam the furthest I’ve ever swam at 3KM, and shaved a second of my 100m average in the process. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Banning high-carbon advertising is a no brainer. It’s not removing people’s choice to do polluting things, and it’s not even banning companies selling polluting things, it just stops normalising these things as fine, cuts down on greenwashing, and puts a wee dent in their sales figures. https://www.badverts.org/latest/sheffield-kicks-out-polluting-ads-in-groundbreaking-new-policy npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon If you teach OpenAPI, or build tools/products that need a sample OpenAPI document to demo functionality, people have classically turned to the Pet Store, but its dated, and missing out on a lot of modern functionality. Now you can use the Train Travel API! npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1jx3…m6x6 yeah exactly. You don’t see people complaining that a cul-de-sac doesn’t let them drive through but if you suddenly make a residential road a cul-de-sac it’s a communist gulag plot to keep everyone locked in their house at all times. These people are deranged and can be completely ignored. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Not that we need more supporting evidence that this governments divisive culture war bullshit has absolutely no merit, but here you go. These “gulags” and “climate lockdowns” range from popular to “didn’t even know I was in one”, don’t increase traffic on boundary roads, and are fine. #ClimateAction #ActiveTravel #RoadSafety #UKPolitics https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/08/low-traffic-neighbourhoods-generally-popular-report-ordered-by-sunak-finds npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Brilliant crew of volunteers from @npub17dp…0wn7 today turned a two day hedgerow planting in Newark into a “off to the pub by 1:30pm day one” kind of job! Champions. Now I’m freed up to go and visit a community woodland up near Leeds with my extra day. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Sycamore Gap lives on in the form of nine surviving grafted plants and 40-50 seedlings. This article doesn’t mention if the original trunk is showing signs of regrowth but I’d not he surprised. Trees are tough weird bastards. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68497720 npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Went for a swim trying to do the usual 2km in 1 hour. Felt like shit. Thought I was massively out of shape but at the end of the hour I noticed I’d done 2.5km?! npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon If you donate to WWF I would strongly recommend you redirect your donations to another charity. This is not the first or worst shit they’ve pulled but that alone is reason enough. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/02/wwf-shelved-report-exposing-river-wye-pollution-to-keep-tesco-happy npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1zny…lx9k @npub1hqx…944s that sheep wool is being used as mulch. It keeps the weeds down by shading them out, stops the soil drying out in direct sun, whilst letting water through. Some folks use woodchip, some use hemp, some use plastic, but this is the best stuff as it’s generally laying around as the U.K. has no use for wool (as we outsource most of our textiles now). Loads of farmers just have wool going to waste so we grab as much as we can and do this whenever possible. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Whilst infinite arseholes are out trashing nature I’ve been out using my chainsaw for good. Cleared another acre of conifers in High Wood for @ProtectEarthUK. Despite wind/rain/hail we had a cracking time., rescuing native willow, birch, holly, and oak from certain death being shaded out. This one happily has its buds out for its first ever year of unrestrained growth, and it makes me so fucking happy. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1drn…qz4p haha thanks! One day I’ll get to my dream of getting bikes involved and trailering shit around the woods but it’s been so damn wet. Keep doing whatever you can and whatever you enjoy. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Strava is now less about “how fast can Phil cycle across a single country” or “how many alps did he do” and more about tree planting but I like to evolve. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1uc0…4gvt they were perfect! They’ve all gone into their new homes restocking this knackered overgrazed woodland in Lloyney, Powys: @npub13ks…38j8 npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1l63…z9z6 of say burning can be done well but rarely is. Composting is usually better but do your research. The advanced approaches of biochar and biodigestion are both power moves and you can chain things up and get smart depending on time, so tradeoffs will be made. Giving a shit is the main thing so thank you for caring. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Oh and don’t worry this mulch matting is 100% biodegradable. We don’t use plastic matting because a) it falls apart immediately and turns into infinite plastic waste in the soil, not to mention the microplastic/nanoplastic waste pollution, and b) why would I want to keep water out of the soil. That’s obviously stupid. #reforestation #agroforestry #biodiversity npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Hedgerows require maintenance. The process of hedgerow laying involves plashing, where stems are cut by 90% and bent sideways to create thicker growth. This hedgerow has long since failed, but the tree remains hundreds of years later to tell a story. Now it will find a home as part of a shelterbelt we planted, two hedgerows with trees between, all merging in with the coppiced shrubs behind it. Cannot wait to see how this looks in 5-10 years time. #reforestation #agroforestry #biodiversity npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1uc0…4gvt thank you so much for taking the time to grow these little guys. They saved us in a pinch when bigger nurseries let us down, and will make for an amazing time for the friends and family at this memorial planting day. @npub13ks…38j8 npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1l63…z9z6 burning = mainly CO2 and loads of other gases and air pollution, composting = methane, which is worse, but both depend on the method. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Cybertrucks are trash for countless obvious reasons, but even if you like the aesthetic, it’s going to rust because their design has been meddled with by an absolute idiot. Anything Elon gets involved with turns to shit. https://www.wired.com/story/this-is-why-teslas-stainless-steel-cybertrucks-may-be-rusting/ npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1jgs…3l4h omg brilliant. Let me know how it goes. Go pro with a mic for extra points. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub19lw…3rpd no reason to assume that? npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon We’ve got a conifer woodland and those things just love blowing over in storms. Their root systems are no good due to dense planting. U.K. must diversify our timber plantations, to both improve product and biodiversity. More continuous cover forestry too. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/25/diverse-forests-of-slow-growing-trees-more-resilient-to-storms-study-finds-aoe npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1zv5…csgf he goooone! He didn’t know what a CTO was meant to do, and he didn’t know what I’d been doing, despite me telling him. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1drn…qz4p it was, and it hurt for a while, because I’d already been doing the job when the other management fell apart. I knew I could; but they got a great CTO in. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon The new CEO of a company I joined with the express intent of being tech leadership told me I couldn’t be CTO because he “needed technical problem solvers, not another Twitter account.” npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Companies will still need carbon credits of course, this will help companies who aim for net zero or real zero, as net zero means rapidly reducing your footprint and offsetting the rest. It’s thankfully going to stop the companies who just do business as usual and bung a few quid on credits, many of which are often fake. Soon I’ll be making proper credits, from creating woodland habitats which you can see, feel, and hear. 🙌🏻 npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Labelling products and services as “climate neutral” or “climate positive” based on the use of carbon offsets will be banned in the EU from 2026 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/17/eu-bans-misleading-environmental-claims-that-rely-on-offsetting npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1vhs…y4x5 think I meant it’s not gonna be handy for most backend applications, but yes the internal guts of various web components definitely care. @npub1zu3…4zzw npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1sun…s0f0 I do love Avon Needs Trees. I’ve contributed about 2000 trees to their effort and have been meaning to get far more involved. If they’re paying for their Woodland Trust trees I want to put an end to that and get them free ass trees, because anything in Avon warms my heart unimaginably. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Pucklechurch to Yate this time. Short but sloppy. Spotted folks with a fire in an old abandoned cottage, but it seemed safe enough and wasn’t damaging any nature so I left them to it. Didn’t have enough cider to share anyway. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Clearing your head is important after a hell-month, and for me it’s wandering through the bridleways east of Bristol,. Grabbing some cider, skirting the car dependant urban sprawl, and out into the nothing. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1zz3…xkx8 don’t worry this is still to make more trees. We get rid of invasive species like rhododendron or remove confers like Sitka source from fragile ecosystems, so the woodlands can bounce back bigger and better. Wrong tree out of the wrong place. 🙌🏻 @npub1xhl…mzlt npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1xhl…mzlt depends what you’re doing. You can go down the shops, but something big enough to kill a rhino, and fuck about with any giant ass tree you like. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Who’s still got two thumbs and passed his chainsaw license! 👍🏼👍🏼 npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub12c9…ya42 I mean… yeah. My laptop went fucking off all around Germany for a bit then came home weeks later. Have to assume it was busting some shapes at some point. https://philsturgeon.com/somebody-stole-my-laptop-then-a-ragtag-crew-of-strangers-got-it-back/ npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1h5r…uzt5 yes I’m aware of that. I’m replying to your suggestion that foresters inherently want to do what you deem to be the wrong thing. It’s more complicated than that. It’s great that even timber plantations are being encouraged to diversify of course. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon I know I love leaving my shit all over the place but Apple’s Find My is giving me anxiety. None of this is true. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1h5r…uzt5 no, you’re confusing to things. Timber plantings are not bad, they’re just a different thing. We still need to plant timber, because we import 76% of it, and we’ll need more to displace steel and concrete in construction. We just also need more natural woodland that’s got different criteria for planting. Foresters working on timber plantations are not dumb or bad or old, they’re just doing different things for different reasons. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1h5r…uzt5 timber plantations and conservation woodlands are obviously going to be designed in entirely different ways, and people get a bit confused about tree planting assuming it’s always following the same rules as tree planting. None of that is the case. Regen isn’t a silver bullet. Planting can be designed to replicate structure. Species grow at different rates. Groves and glades are made with planting patterns. Etc. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub19up…ckeg it’s going to be 15,009-40,000 depending on government delays approving two of our own sites. We’re scraping together smaller projects on the off chance these bigger ones don’t happen but ideally we do the lot. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Job done! Thanks to the three volunteers who saw our cry for help we got it done by 1ish with minimal injury. I’m back on the road, happy to know there’s another woodland in the world. @ProtectEarthUK will be back to extend this next year, and possibly a wildflower meadow too. 🙌🏻 npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1m4k…t5t8 it’s a scale issue. Organisations of a certain size (and age) struggle to keep the left hand knowing what the right is doing, and there’s 100 people involved. One forgets to file an EIA, another sends it to the wrong authority, another goes on leave and doesn’t pass the case to somebody else, somebody assumes somebody else checked if planting is on SSSI or open access then they have to yank the saplings out when it’s discovered… just an outright lack of process. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1qxv…sqks 10 day cargo freight cruise! 🙌🏻 npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1m4k…t5t8 of I figure out the right person to talk to constructively I’ll feed back the various accounts, but it’s been going on for years. I can’t imagine they’re not aware. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1wtf…cucp that and logistically it’s easier to plant the edges so you’re not then having to go thru or around the young scrubby woodland. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon I know you lot love to see a before/after so here’s today’s effort! We had our first ever 0% attendance on volunteers, with none of the twelve coming and only two letting us know about it, but hey ho! npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon I know you lot love to see a before/after so here’s today’s effort! We had our first ever 0% attendance on volunteers, with none of the twelve coming and only two letting us know about it, but hey ho! npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1m4k…t5t8 a huge percentage of our planting projects are with people who have been messed around by this organisation, and I’ve experienced it myself. It’s massively shaped how we work as a charity, picking up the pieces that have been repeatedly dropped in more creative ways than I could fit in a root. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1wtf…cucp those are going to be a mixture of orchard and wildflower, and more planting over the coming years. Starting at the edges is a pretty common approach. 🙌🏻 npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1m4k…t5t8 I’m not gonna name them online because somebody will moan about it but you can take a guess and be right first time. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon Planting 800 trees tomorrow! Another landowner who’s been screwed about by gov and a Trust. After months of prep they refused to deliver trees to an incomplete rural address. Guess what: reforestation is often rural! @ProtectEarthUK got the trees there, and a volunteer crew. 🙌🏻 npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1h5r…uzt5 i work in reforestation so I know how this works. Some grants literally say each and every tree has to be exactly X centimetres apart, not more, not less, and that’s going to end up with rows. Wavy rows at best, but still rows. Nothing to do with foresters loving it. That sounds like you might be confusing native reforestation with commercial timber crop plantations. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1h5r…uzt5 straight lines don’t matter to the birds, and are usually required by frustrating grant schemes, but things will random up over time as some fail, thinning occurs, self seeding takes over, etc, sad to hear about the felling but lessons are learned and a decade is a long time. Positive things happening now at least. Send anyone who needs help to me or https://protect.earth so we can do more good! npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon 🎙️🚨 API Podcast Alert! 🚨 npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1h5r…uzt5 if you’ve got any land, or know anyone that has, and there’s trees to plant or invasives to kill please send them our way. We planted at south lodge and had Caroline Lucas swing by last year but no new plans yet. https://protect.earth/landowners npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1wez…p2tn exactly. If your frame is trashed but everything else is there you’d take the everything else before somebody has another go at it. I swear this death trap is being ridden. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1wez…p2tn I would literally put my bike in the bath before I let it get further destroyed like this. npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1h5r…uzt5 ahoy! I’m not based anywhere, I’m wherever trees need planting and invasives need killing. You need any help? 🙌🏻 npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon @npub1wez…p2tn i can’t imagine that. If you’d had that done you’d take it home! npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon The multiple locks on this bike suggest somebody has been riding it like this?! At least lash a splint on there or something you maniac!! npub1w8w0dg00ju790tjpvyt0y5usvkem906q6mpxter59z748l80vktqgxcfzu Phil Sturgeon 🌳 Who wants to plant some trees in Welshpool, Powys Jan 27th? We're really low on volunteers, so if you'd like to come and join us from further afield get in touch. There's a train and we can pick you up from the station, or figure out car pooling. #Wales #reforestation #rewilding #ClimateAction #biodiversity #biodiversitycrisis https://www.protect.earth/events/volunteers-needed-planting-trees-near-welshpool-powys
