Over the past six months, the team at Sustain Operations CIC in Wiltshire have made huge strides in their mission to transform landfill sites into low carbon, affordable fruit and vegetable production hubs. Despite the issues with the structural integrity of the initial growing dome, the Sustain Operations CIC team have shown great resilience, trialling crops in the vehicle entrance of the failed dome, in readiness for the dome’s replacement, which arrives this week. Resilien

Last year I wrote a blog inspired by Clint Eastwood, in which I explained that when it comes to planning, you’ve got to roll with the punches. That means taking the good with the bad, and occasionally the downright ugly. Over a year on and nothing could be truer. Sadly, positive news on the planning front remains thin. So, instead I’ll share exciting news about the growing dome. The Good Despite the failure of the initial trial dome our head horticulturalist, Raj, has been m

Late on 01 April - 10:35 GMT, to be precise, NASA’s Moon rocket Artemis II launched carrying astronauts to the Moon for the first time in almost 54 years, closely followed by the attention of the world’s media. Having orbited the Earth, its translunar injection burn ignited and the craft, carrying its crew of four, broke free from the Earth’s orbit on its 240,000-mile journey to the Moon. This was the third launch attempt by NASA since February. What this shows is that the