Category: Environment
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Australian Trade Deal will Decimate British Farmers and Lower Food Quality in the UK
This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on the impact on British farming of the newly signed trade deal with Australia. So, a trade deal has been signed with our furthermost neighbour on the other side of the world! Great news for Australia but bad…
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Sustainable farming methods is the best way forward after the pandemic.
This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on our knowledge of where and how our food is produced and the far-reaching consequences of not changing our current commercial food production to a more local and sustainable form of farming. In the last few decades humanities…
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Recycling Tools Project Scuppered Due to local politics!
Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on how a successful reuse project set up under the You Can Grow umbrella was scuppered by nepotism, favouritism and local politics! During the final year of delivering our pioneering growing project “Food for Life” at St. Ronan’s primary school, Innerleithen;…
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Teach them young
This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on growing food as a subject alongside home economics in schools. One thing the Covid-19 pandemic has definitely taught us is that humanity has to get its act together in order to survive on this planet. No more…
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Disposable Face Masks the new Plastics!
This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on disposable face masks and the huge environmental impact on our planet! Since the Covid-19 pandemic officially began in March this year in the UK, capitalists have taken advantage of the crisis to boost their profits along with…
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Why Governments Must Act Now!
Recent climate protests proves a point our organisation has been making since it was founded in 2007! Climate change is real and is causing havoc around the planet and will have a massive impact on whether we survive as a species in the coming decades. The greed of Politicians and Corporations have done everything in…