I’ve been to a couple of meetings recently, scrutinising Hull’s ‘net zero carbon’ ambitions. At each of the meetings there’s been a chap who’s challenged us to think about how we should put nature back into everything we do.
That man is Andrew Gibson. He works for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, he’s one of their conservation officers.
I wanted to know more about what Andrew means by this phrase ‘put nature back into everything we do’. So I took him up on his offer of a drive around the city to look at some examples of what he means.
We met at Andrew’s office in the Trust’s wildlife garden in the corner of Pearson Park. It was a miserably wet day in late November, so you’ll hear the rain splashing on the mic at times.
I began by asking Andrew what sort of environments we’d be looking at…