Environment news

• Cape Town faces Day Zero: what happens when the city turns off the taps?

  03-02-2018 09:00 via theguardian.com
  In 10 weeks engineers will turn off water for a million homes as this South African city reacts to one-in-384-year drought. The rich are digging boreholes, more are panic-buying bottled water, and the army is on standbyInteractive explainer: how Cape Town is running dryThe head of Cape Town’s disaster operations centre is drawing up a plan he hopes he never has to implement as this South African city on the frontline of climate change prepares to be the first in the world to turn off the w
  
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• Country diary: laying our friend to rest in the woods

  03-02-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Boduan, Pwllheli: A woodland burial reminds us that nature is the mirror and foundation for every resurrection mythMy dear old friend loved birds. They brought her joy. I’d spent many peaceful hours in her garden room, keeping her company, watching the nuthatches, woodpeckers, goldfinches and siskins at her bird table during these recent years of illness patiently borne. She died in the last minutes of the old year, at the age of 88. A woodland burial was arranged at Boduan Sanctuary. Waxy
  
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• Triodos pioneers sustainable crowdfunding platform

  03-02-2018 01:01
  Sustainable lender Triodos has become the first UK bank to launch its own crowdfunding platform, which will enable people to invest directly in equity or bonds issues by organisations delivering positive social and environmental impacts.
  
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