Environment Matters on Mix 92.6

Feb 03 2025 98 ep. 5

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Amanda Yorwerth talks all things environment with a focus on Hertfordshire

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Reasons to be cheerful

In this week’ Environment Matters, podcast, break through the current environmental doom and gloom with uplifting news from Sonya Jefferson and Jill Watson about what the St Albans Sustainability Festival committee have planned for this year, plus some tips for a sustainable mindset to support a sustainable lifestyle from KT Life Coach, Kerry Trevett.

Gulls Galore

Are all gulls seagulls? Where do they go at night? And what do they have in common with honey bees? These and more questions will be answered in this week’s Environment Matters podcast when Josh Calms of the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust joins Amanda to discuss these beautiful, sometimes fearsome, and, sadly, declining birds. ... Read more

The Soil Squad want your food waste!

Vicky Gutteridge joins Amanda Yorwerth on this week’s Environment Matters podcast to explain how her new Community Interest Company, The Soil Squad, would love you to join in their food waste composting pilot and help them educate everyone to the wonders of composting. To sign up for the Soil Squad food composting pilot scheme, email ... Read more

The easiest way to be healthier in 2025?

Losing a pound or 2 or doing some exercise are great ways to improve your health, but what you might not know is that avoiding burning wood at home is an easy way to reduce our risk of many diseases including heart disease, cancer and even dementia. In this week’s Environment Matters podcast, Matthew Clark ... Read more

Could your 2025 be Flight Free?

When it comes to holidays, we want sun, we want culture, we want exciting places to explore – and it seems that those are only to be found at the end of a flight. But can we have a proper holiday without flying? Does it have to cost a fortune? And do we have to ... Read more

How you too can be a phenologist

In this Environment Matters podcast, Alex Marshall of the Woodland Trust explains how you can turn your simple wildlife sightings around the changing seasons into valuable citizen science. For more about Nature’s Calendar take a look at the Woodland Trust webpages.

The surprising truth about your garden robin

Tim Hill of the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust has some festive picks for you to spot on your winter walks. In this Environment Matters podcast we’ll find out find out about Gull O’Clock, the Haw Finch Winter and the surprising truth about your friendly garden robin. Turn your mistletoe sightings into citizen science by ... Read more

Great but green presents for everyone

In this week’s Environment Matters podcast, Danielle Durrant of the Green House Eco Hub joins Amanda Yorwerth to discusses ideas for gifts that are good for the planet good for local people and might be just what your loved one would like. Plus she tells us about the latest Green House product trial, this time ... Read more

Making your chocolate a force for good

For most of us, Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without chocolate. But, as with so much of what we eat, there are concerns about the sustainability and issues over human rights with the production of some chocolate. So how to make sure that our chocolate is a force for good not bad? In this week’s Environment ... Read more

Luton Airport Expansion Plans

In this week’s Environment Matters podcast, Cllr John Hale of St Albans Quieter Skies gives an update on where the Luton Airport plans for expansion have got to, the effect that the plans will have locally and what you can do if you are concerned. For more information on Luton Airport expansion plans see: Luton ... Read more