Hello and welcome to the Green Alliance News Review, hosted by Matt Williams and Amy Mount.

With this podcast, every two weeks or so, we'll bring you an environmental perspective on the political and policy developments of the fortnight, as well as drawing your attention to any big green stories that you might have missed.

Please do keep getting in touch with your feedback and your responses. We really do like to hear

that and any ideas you have about what you'd like us to cover in the next episode. It was really

good to hear following Matt's talking about his dreaming of swallows. Swallows returning from migration.

Yeah.

One listener got in touch to say they'd heard Curlews burbling away on the moors a couple of

weeks ago, so there's another sign of spring.

Excellent.

And also following the report that we were talking about, about the sort of astonishing

environmental impacts of fashion, at least one listener has now pledged to avoid buying any new clothes this year,

which I'm also going to try to do.

That's brilliant.

Yeah, although I've put a caveat that charity shops is allowed.

Secondhand is allowed.

No new, brand new clothes.

Yeah, no brand new clothes.

So I'm going to give that a go. So So yes, if you want to get in touch, you can find us on Facebook or Twitter at Green Alliance UK. Green Alliance is the

charity and think tank that is all about achieving ambitious leadership for the environment.

We're non-partisan, so we don't support or align ourselves with any

particular political party, but we are unashamedly pro-environment. In this episode, we'll be

catching up with the climate strikes that we covered in the previous episode and some of the

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