My Square Metre | B-Corp

🎄🎅 From all of us at My Square Metre, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🎅🎄 Thank you for all your support this year, we hope that you have a wonderful time however you spend the festive season. Here’s to a great 2025!🥂🎊 #MySquareMetre #MerryChristmas #HappyNewYear

Still Christmas shopping? 🤔🎄 Beat the crowds, put your feet up, and gift someone a piece of wildflower meadow with My Square Metre! Choose from as little as one square metre, which we will plant, tend to and protect for 30 years. Just one square metre can provide food for 60 bees throughout their life! It will also provide food and a habitat for other essential pollinators, insects, and wildlife as well as sequestering carbon and improving soil health. Give the gift of wildflowers by going to https://lnkd.in/euM2Mr-4 #LastMinutePresents #LastMinuteGifts #ChristmasGiftIdeas #SustainableGifts #EcoFriendlyGifts #MySquareMetre #Wildflowers

2024: A year of hope for wildlife. 💚 From wetlands buzzing with life to coastlines where seabirds soar, this year has seen nature recover in incredible ways. These wins remind us of what’s possible when we take action, and they wouldn’t have been achieved without the support of our members, volunteers, and partners. Thank you. Here's a glimpse at just some of the successes from this year that give us hope for nature’s future. 👇 Read more about what 2024 achieved for nature here: https://brnw.ch/21wPyb6 #GoodNews

How can you help the wildlife that lives in your garden? Over 500 different species call the average UK garden home, so it’s important to support them during the colder part of the year. Try these tips: 🐦 Feed the birds. Leaving out fat-rich foods like mealworms, peanuts, fat balls and suet can help your local birds keep their energy levels up over winter. Be sure to clean your bird feeder every two weeks with hot water and washing up liquid to avoid spreading bacteria and disease. 🍂 Don’t tidy your garden. Dead plants, piles of leaves and twigs and old wood are great places for small animals and insects to shelter from the cold, so put your feet up and relax. For the wildlife. 😉 🌼 Plant wildflowers. You might think wildflowers only flower in summer, but many will flower right up until November, and even after their flowering season, will provide seeds for birds and shelter for insects. Our Long Season mix will flower for months on end, giving you a vibrant display and providing food for bees and other insects. You can shop our different seed mixes at https://lnkd.in/ezTY_Vx8 #Winter #Solstice #Biodiversity #Birds #Insects #Wildlife #Wildflowers

Want to make your Christmas more eco-friendly? Check out our tips for sustainable Christmas gifts! 🎄 🎁 🛍️ Buying gifts at local independent shops reduces your carbon footprint and supports local business. 🛒 Look for ethical online retailers when shopping for gifts on the internet. 📚 Shopping for books? Check out Hive Books, who support independent bookshops with every purchase. 🍰 Baked goods make awesome homemade gifts 😋 ☕ Reusable cups, bottles and bag are the gift that keeps on giving! 🪻 Gift a mini wildflower meadow with a My Square Metre seed kit, or send a gift card and we will plant some for you :) Go to https://lnkd.in/eZKHz_in to browse our seed kits and gift cards 🌱🌼 #SustainableChristmas #EcoChristmas #SustainableGifts #GardeningGifts #ShopLocal #MySquareMetre

Here’s some good environmental news from the past month to bring some extra positivity to your feed! 🐑 Sheep help protect 12th century church from deathwatch beetles - https://lnkd.in/g9QxsWGU 🦇 Conservation work to boost bat and dormouse population in Somerset - https://lnkd.in/eqk48sTz 🌺 Study finds biodiversity benefits to wildflowers in cities as well as in rural areas - https://lnkd.in/gbpfdR3Q 🐝 Bumblebee population grows by 116 times in two years thanks to rewilding project - https://lnkd.in/eVz9gdwP 🦗 12-year-old girl in Slovenia volunteers to assist with New Forest cicada project - https://lnkd.in/dG4Q9Kc2 #GoodNews #PositiveNews #MySquareMetre #Biodiversity #Conservation #EcoFriendly #Rewilding

Voting is still open to help My Square Metre | B-Corp win a £20k ad campaign and a fancy advert with AdSmart from Sky 📺 Winning would help us gain traction so we can plant more wildflowers work in more schools and restore even more nature 🌸 #LocalHeros #Sky #Adsmart #votenow #VoteForPedro #Wildflowers #NatureRestorstion Here’s the link 🔗 to vote 🗳️

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Here are some of the key takeaways from last week’s COP29 summit. The UN-led meeting was held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 11th - 22nd November. 💰 Richer nations agreed to double the yearly payments made to poorer nations to $300bn to help them tackle climate change. This has been criticized by some as ‘too little, too late’. 🛢️ The choice of location was considered problematic as Azerbaijan is an authoritarian state which has strong ties to the oil and gas industry. 🦕 Some nations are reluctant to cut fossil fuels as it could jeopardise their economic growth, provoking arguments that they are backsliding on agreements made last year at COP28. 🔴 China agrees to voluntarily contribute to the above-mentioned $300bn fund - China is classed by the UN as a developing country with no formal obligation to provide financial help to poorer countries, despite being the world's largest carbon emitter. 🌎 Many negotiators feared that the US would fall behind in climate action and financial contributions due to the re-election of Donald Trump, who has called climate action a “scam” and did not attend COP29. 🗯️ Representatives from the Alliance of Small Island States and others walk out of COP29 climate talks, saying that the new deal shows “contempt” for their vulnerable people. What are your thoughts on COP29? Let us know in the comments. #COP29 #UN #ClimateAction #FossilFuels #CarbonEmissions #ClimateChange

Check out our latest blog for part 2 of our ecological study of the wildflower meadow! Zoe Tomlinson, a 3rd year Geography student, has collected the traps and processed the samples, helping us to find out what invertebrates call our meadow home, and what lives in the upcoming second wildflower meadow. Read our blog here: https://lnkd.in/ePU-6sJT #MySquareMetre #EcologicalStudy #Entomology #Invertebrates #Insects #Biodiversity #Wildflowers