🪴The vast majority of houseplants are grown in peat, a nutritious soil-like substance formed from decayed organic matter over time.
➡️The mining of peat is now widely condemned as unsustainable, environment-wrecking and carbon-emitting
🔥Like coal or oil, Peat is effectively a finite resource.
It does regenerate, but only forms at a rate of 1 mm annually.
🗣️"The use of peat to grow this century’s trendiest plant group isn’t at the top of most millennials environmental agenda" writes @mattapple1
🪴Harriet Thompson is trying to raise awareness of the dark truth behind houseplant production.
She sells peat-free houseplants by mail order.
📈Thompson says demand for her houseplants has been 200% in the first 3 months of 2021 than in the whole of 2020
@PlantsPointless is an online plant seller, founded by Nathan Raab.
He is on a mission to make houseplants greener and wants to sell them peat-free.
🌿Raab's business has 130,000 Instagram followers and saw sales rise 4,000% in a month earlier this year
Looking to go peat free?
🪴Harriet Thompson says: “Simply get rid of the old compost and repot them in a peat-free compost.” Provided you handle the roots gently the plants should be fine"
🌿Did you realise that most house plants are grown in peat?
🍽️ ✈️ While many of us are enjoying the chance to socialise and travel normally, some are clinging fearfully to the safety behaviours from during the pandemic.
➡️ What was once a rational response to danger has become a “maladaptive” response as the danger recedes
🔴 Manchester United fans’ protests against the club’s owners descended into chaos after Old Trafford was stormed.
🚔 Bottles and barriers were thrown at officers with one requiring treatment for “significant slash wound” to the face telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/…
⚽️Thousands of fans gathered around the stadium to voice their disapproval of the Glazer family's ownership and their attempt to join the closed-shop league.
🇬🇧 More than twenty years after the idea was conceived and double the estimated price, HMS Queen Elizabeth has set sail on her maiden voyage as part of the UK Carrier Strike Group Deployment, the biggest deployment of UK naval firepower since the Falklands War
Weighing 65,000 tonnes, travelling more than 26,000 nautical miles and visiting a total of 40 countries over seven months, HMS Queen Elizabeth will sail through:
⚓ The Mediterranean Sea
⚓ Arabian Sea
⚓ South China Seas
⚓ Indian Ocean
⚓ Pacific Ocean
📚 On the morning of 9 March, 2019, Hilary Mantel finished writing The Mirror & the Light, the third volume of the Wolf Hall trilogy she had spent 15 years on
🏴 "I wanted to leave the reader feeling that it was a tragedy, but not a disaster. Cromwell changed England, and he probably did everything that he set out to do. So although he must have gone to his execution in great distress, I don’t think it would be with regret"