Review of our social on the 19th August.
This was an interesting, free photo exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society.
Images not only showed the terrible consequences of climate change on communities and wildlife such as severe drinking water issues in West Bengal, extreme flooding in Bangladesh, the last sea ice in the Bellingshausen Sea along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula but had examples of other changes. These included the cultivation of vegetables on floating hyacinth beds in Bangladesh showing new possibilities of environmental-friendly greening and crop cultivation in flooded land. We learnt that the 1,000-year-old German oaks are modifying their leaves to the shape of their pre-descendants, the Spanish oaks, to deal with the warming climate. And nearer to home, the work to involve the community in bee keeping and organic farming in Kennington Park! With lots of other very striking and interesting photos it was a worthwhile outing.
We headed to a ‘hidden’ café garden in Hyde Park afterwards.
