Category: <span>The HOT Planet</span>

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HOT’s Erica Smith asks “What’s going on?”

Posted 19:26 Monday, Feb 28, 2022 In: The HOT Planet

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HOT has been here reporting about Hastings for over a decade now. We have a wide readership – online, through social media re-posts and via our twice a week MailChimp mailouts. What we are not good at is asking for anything in return… so Erica Smith is asking you if you can help HOT by doing one of the following things:

Posted 20:59 Sunday, Oct 10, 2021 In: The HOT Planet

Local women add their images to climate change protests

Women from Hastings and the environs came together during lockdown to create a banner protesting against the effects of climate change.

Posted 21:41 Wednesday, Dec 9, 2020 In: The HOT Planet Tags: climate change Jen Painter Lorna Vahey

Get paid to write for HOT!

HOT is delighted to be the recipient of a Google grant to support local journalism during Covid-19.

Posted 19:08 Wednesday, Aug 19, 2020 In: The HOT Planet

“Lack of vision” in HBC’s climate change strategy

Hastings Borough Council says it is taking steps to implement its climate change strategy, including establishing an internal board, and calls on residents to play their part. Its actions have drawn scepticism and criticism from some quarters, including the claim that its plan lacks vision and ambition. Nick Terdre reports.

Posted 11:57 Friday, Jul 17, 2020 In: The HOT Planet Tags: Chris Lewcock climate HBC Julia Hilton Kim Forward Local Strategic Partnership Maya Evans Nick Terdre Russell Hall

Council encourages residents to take part in ‘No Mow May’

In a bid to help tackle climate change Hastings Borough Council is encouraging residents to do their part by not doing anything at all! Though many have time on their hands and the weather currently on their side, the council has issued a release hoping that residents will neglect their lawns for this month in order to support pollinating insects and do their part for the environment.

Posted 10:51 Thursday, May 21, 2020 In: The HOT Planet Tags: climate change Every Flower Counts Hastings Borough Council No Mow May Plantlife

Post-Covid reboot needed to orient town towards climate change objectives?

Now that the council’s climate change strategy is in the public domain, the voices omitted from helping to form it can be heard. Chris Lewcock, former chair of Hastings Urban Design Group, local government town planner and lecturer in the built environment, wonders whether, when we are past the Covid-19 crisis, a Hastings reboot conference open to all could help us put the climate emergency centre-stage. Below, the Green Party’s Julia Hilton calls for concrete goals and localist action.

Posted 15:33 Friday, May 15, 2020 In: The HOT Planet Tags: biodiversity Chris Lewcock climate change HBC Julia Hilton Maya Evans Town Board

Council’s roadmap to carbon-neutral Hastings

Armed with a climate change strategy and action plan, Hastings Borough Council has embarked on a journey to make the town carbon-neutral by 2030, as called for in the climate emergency motion approved last year. Nick Terdre describes the main features of the plan.

Posted 19:36 Wednesday, May 13, 2020 In: The HOT Planet Tags: AECOM carbon climate Energise Sussex Coast Hastings Borough Council Jane Hartnell Local Plan Maya Evans Nick Terdre renewable energy