{"id":1225,"date":"2021-05-10T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/thelionsgate\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2023-02-21T10:03:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T09:03:20","slug":"views-for-the-edge-of-auld-reekie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/thelionsgate\/views-for-the-edge-of-auld-reekie\/","title":{"rendered":"Views from the edge of Auld Reekie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On The Beach<\/strong><br>For the past six weeks, having watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seaspiracy.org\/\">Seaspiracy<\/a>, and been shocked into action, I&#8217;ve been picking up litter from a beach I pass on my morning cycle. It&#8217;s a potentially beautiful spot where the Dolphinton Burn meets the Firth of Forth, and swans, geese, ducks, oystercatchers, and gulls are just some of the birds you&#8217;ll see on any day by the water.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Firth of Forth is, as a dog walker proclaimed this morning &#8211; &#8216;a dirty river&#8217;. Too true, I bought myself a litter picker and armed with it and a bag I&#8217;ve now an intimate relationship with human trash. Tyres, plastic bottles and tops, sanitary towels, a lot of sanitary towels, innumerable pieces of plastic of all sizes and types, shoes, lots of shoes, clothing, ropes, wipes, food packaging, fibrous and congealed human-made materials, just about anything you can think of that humans make and nature has to suffer. I always think of a whale or dolphin or any sea creature consuming this stuff, and the complete misery of that vision is sobering. I can clear that beach, just about, in a month, but then it all comes back again. How not to despair?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, what good would that do? The problem facing humanity at this juncture, with regards our relationship with the natural world is indeed huge, but the solutions are simple, and I&#8217;m not going to tell you what they are, because you already know them and if you don&#8217;t you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.52climateactions.com\/\">find them out for yourselves<\/a>, failing that, come along to The Lions&#8217; Gate sometime&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The future is green<\/strong><br>Though having no political affiliations, I was cheered by the increase in representation of the Greens at the Scottish Election, which I thought (as a bit of an election nerd) was very well covered. Lockdown has increased our connection to nature and we must not lose that, we must all work toward nourishing bio-diverse systems as a core activity, and that includes taking care of ourselves as symbiotic parts of that diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Lions&#8217; Gate Fringe<\/strong><br>No, not an new hair cut&#8230;yet. We&#8217;ve been successful in securing some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.napier.ac.uk\/research-and-innovation\/public-engagement\">Public Engagement<\/a> funds and our plan is to have a Fringe event in the garden between the 6th and 13th of August &#8211; involving talks, food and drink, music, digital technology and gardening. If you&#8217;d like to participate in this in any way please get in touch: <a href=\"mailto:callum.egan@napier.ac.uk\">callum.egan@napier.ac.uk<\/a>. We could represent quite a lot of &#8216;sustainability&#8217; activities from across the university. It&#8217;s a lot of work and I could really do with the help too :).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hedgehogs and Apple trees<br><\/strong>A shout needs to go out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.napierstudents.com\/campaigns\/hedgehog\/\">Heloisa and the Hedgehog Friendly Campus crew<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.napierstudents.com\/\">ENSA<\/a> for their awesome hedgehog house pictured below and Miles Weaver and Ankit for helping out with<a href=\"https:\/\/edinburghnapieruniversity108.workplace.com\/groups\/909825256253467\/permalink\/918311218738204\/\"> the planting of a Cambusnethan Pippin Apple tree and associated herb guild up at Craiglockhart<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To round of this ramble here are a few shots of the garden taken last week. I was enthralled to see that one of the plants we left in the space from the past &#8211; a Japanese Quince, was in flower. Also, the intensity and variety of greenery was quite overwhelming, even to an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Color_blindness\">anomolous trichromat<\/a> like myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large wp-image-1229\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"773\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/thelionsgate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/05\/flower.jpg?resize=580%2C773&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Elephant Ears (Bergenia cordifolia)\" class=\"wp-image-1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/thelionsgate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/05\/flower.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/thelionsgate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/05\/flower.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/thelionsgate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/05\/flower.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" 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