Thames estuary airport

The outer Thames estuary airport plan, which just seems wrong on so many different levels, one wonder how any money was ever raised to promote it. Developers the Thames Estuary Research and Development Company (TESTRAD) have made suggestions about what should happen to Heathrow in their airport scenario, I've written about this as a Permaculture Garden[ing] Suburb here.

Greenhouse Britain

Greenhouse Britain

http://greenhousebritain.greenmuseum.org/exhibition/virtual-exhibition/

Managed Retreat Issue 1

Managed Retreat - Issue 1

Managed Retreat - Issue 1 - the print edition launches Saturday 20th July 2013 at the Eastern Region Permaculture Gathering.

Managed Retreat is an occasional journal of the English orient - it's bioregional & geopoetic, it promotes an ecological Englishness and comes with an eastern flavour. It's about nature & culture. This is the front cover & some of the contents.

Currently available for £5 postage inc.(barter if you've got something interesting!). See the Print Edition page for order details.

Managed Retreat Issue 1

Managed Retreat Issue 1, a set on Flickr.

The print issue is getting close to release, here's a little preview, with glimpses of layout ideas from the concept design phase - hand-drawn in pencil and electronic using the open source DTP software Scribus (thanks to Graham Burnett for drawing that to my attention).

The official launch is planned for the Eastern Region Permaculture Gathering in Suffolk on the weekend of 14th July, with a thought for another event in Essex at the Railway Hotel in Southend-on-Sea - more information posted here when a date is confirmed.

Preparing for change on the coast

2011 video from Managing Coastal Change about 'an innovative scheme to recreate salt marsh'.

Not devoid of bucolic charm

The 1594 map of John Norden

The railroad from Wickford to Burnham 
traverses a very pleasant open country, largely 
pastoral in its interests and industries, and certainly 
not devoid of bucolic charm. It carries you to 
Battlesbridge, where an iron bridge spans the 
Crouch near the old water-mill, and where, as 
tradition states, fugitive warriors crossed the river 
after the Battle of Ashingdon. Next you reach 
Woodham Ferris, where Maurice Fitz- Geoffrey 
founded a priory for Black Canons at Bycknacre, 
in the days of our second Henry ; a Transitional 
arch, standing in solitary desolation among the 
corn, was recently perhaps it yet stands the 
sole relic of that once rich foundation. The 
curious may find an illustration of this arch, and 
much interesting letterpress touching the priory, in 
Archteologia (1793). Another three miles takes you 
to Fambridge, whither we have already rambled ; 
then, looking southwards from the train window, 
you will survey a wide stretch of perfectly flat 
marshland, scribbled over with winding creeks 
and narrow dykes, spanned by many little bridges. 
Presently you will catch glimpses of the white 
sails of yachts and the masts of barges in the far 
distance, afloat upon the broader waters of the 
Crouch Estuary. Althorne is soon passed, and the 
next station is Burnham-on-Crouch the ' Burne- 
ham streete ' of John Norden's map. 

from Marsh-country Rambles (1904) by Herbert Tompkins

Under an East Coast Moon

 

William Adamson 'Under an East Coast Moon' - more Sebald contrails?According to the Gilles Peterson site:

"William Adamson, the former talisman of acid jazz pioneers Galliano and sporadic poet Earl Zinger releases his debut album on Brownswood on 18th March. Produced by heritage futurists 2 Banks Of 4, the multi-faceted Gallagher has created a topographical travelogue – a concept album in the truest sense – where the songs tell fragments of stories that have grown out of a small region in the Eastern Horn of England, with sounds more akin to recordings emanating from the Louisiana marshlands"