Clara Todd
@claratee.bsky.social
Water nerd and recovering techie in Cambridge UK.
Ambition to be a good ancestor.
www.claratodd.com
Ambition to be a good ancestor.
www.claratodd.com
Comment on exciting new water course creation on #SheepsGreen #cambridge (north of Fen Causeway) for fish passes/general biodiversity. 🐟 engage.cambridge.gov.uk/en-GB/projec...
October 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Comment on exciting new water course creation on #SheepsGreen #cambridge (north of Fen Causeway) for fish passes/general biodiversity. 🐟 engage.cambridge.gov.uk/en-GB/projec...
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cambridgeppf.org/etn/rof-pure-c… Tonight 6:30pm Leper Chapel: PURE CLEAN WATER.
A primer on water crisis & economic pressures in Cambridge, portrait of a chalk stream and medieval engineering.
Our oldest surviving intact building is a beautiful cinema for one more night#riversoffilmlm
A primer on water crisis & economic pressures in Cambridge, portrait of a chalk stream and medieval engineering.
Our oldest surviving intact building is a beautiful cinema for one more night#riversoffilmlm
October 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
cambridgeppf.org/etn/rof-pure-c… Tonight 6:30pm Leper Chapel: PURE CLEAN WATER.
A primer on water crisis & economic pressures in Cambridge, portrait of a chalk stream and medieval engineering.
Our oldest surviving intact building is a beautiful cinema for one more night#riversoffilmlm
A primer on water crisis & economic pressures in Cambridge, portrait of a chalk stream and medieval engineering.
Our oldest surviving intact building is a beautiful cinema for one more night#riversoffilmlm
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Some highlights from the #riversoffilm festival so far: oysters, ocean trawling devastation, #worldriversday poetry, chalk streams & dreams, company of filmmakers who love their rivers and life within and good audiences. Don't miss #ourblueworld cambridgeppf.org/riversoffilm/
September 30, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Some highlights from the #riversoffilm festival so far: oysters, ocean trawling devastation, #worldriversday poetry, chalk streams & dreams, company of filmmakers who love their rivers and life within and good audiences. Don't miss #ourblueworld cambridgeppf.org/riversoffilm/
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Excited to start a rainwater harvesting project to support trees at #stmatthewspiece Community Orchard. Working with #petersfield residents, @camcitco.bsky.social, On the verge Cambridge and others at #stmatthewsgardens / #yorkstreet. Extra hands, smiles & tea most welcome!
September 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Excited to start a rainwater harvesting project to support trees at #stmatthewspiece Community Orchard. Working with #petersfield residents, @camcitco.bsky.social, On the verge Cambridge and others at #stmatthewsgardens / #yorkstreet. Extra hands, smiles & tea most welcome!
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Cambridge Rivers of Film Festival: Films & film-related events to inspire care, curiosity & action for our rivers and oceans.
Main: 23 Sept - 4th Oct. cambridgeppf.org/riversoffilm/
Tickets at no cost or at affordable prices, thanks to our event partners & #RiverCamCAN
Main: 23 Sept - 4th Oct. cambridgeppf.org/riversoffilm/
Tickets at no cost or at affordable prices, thanks to our event partners & #RiverCamCAN
August 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Cambridge Rivers of Film Festival: Films & film-related events to inspire care, curiosity & action for our rivers and oceans.
Main: 23 Sept - 4th Oct. cambridgeppf.org/riversoffilm/
Tickets at no cost or at affordable prices, thanks to our event partners & #RiverCamCAN
Main: 23 Sept - 4th Oct. cambridgeppf.org/riversoffilm/
Tickets at no cost or at affordable prices, thanks to our event partners & #RiverCamCAN
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The draft Local Nature Recovery Strategy is open for comment until 11 Sept. The LNRS describes our most precious habitats in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, including chalk streams & fen habitats. For benefit of future generations & our non-human kin yourvoice.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/lnrs/consult...
August 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The draft Local Nature Recovery Strategy is open for comment until 11 Sept. The LNRS describes our most precious habitats in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, including chalk streams & fen habitats. For benefit of future generations & our non-human kin yourvoice.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/lnrs/consult...
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Seeking volunteers 🙏🏼 for The Cambridge Rivers of Film Festival
23rd Sept – 4th Oct.
Partnering with cambridgeppf.bsky.social to bring an exciting programme of films, workshops & other events focused on rivers this Autumn. We seek volunteers like you! #riversoffilmfestival #rivercamcan
23rd Sept – 4th Oct.
Partnering with cambridgeppf.bsky.social to bring an exciting programme of films, workshops & other events focused on rivers this Autumn. We seek volunteers like you! #riversoffilmfestival #rivercamcan
River of Film Festival seeks volunteers - Water Sensitive Cambridge
The Cambridge Rivers of Film Festival 23rd Sept – 4th Oct We are partnering with Cambridge Past, Present & Future to bring an exciting programme of films, workshops and other events focused on rivers,...
www.watersencam.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Seeking volunteers 🙏🏼 for The Cambridge Rivers of Film Festival
23rd Sept – 4th Oct.
Partnering with cambridgeppf.bsky.social to bring an exciting programme of films, workshops & other events focused on rivers this Autumn. We seek volunteers like you! #riversoffilmfestival #rivercamcan
23rd Sept – 4th Oct.
Partnering with cambridgeppf.bsky.social to bring an exciting programme of films, workshops & other events focused on rivers this Autumn. We seek volunteers like you! #riversoffilmfestival #rivercamcan
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Glorious morning with 100 other river lovers on a flotilla of punts, paddle boards, canoes and kayaks showing love for our #rivercam. Message to @anglianwater.bsky.social : try harder to #cleanitup! #camvalleyforum @sascampaigns.bsky.social #paddleoutprotest #puntandpaddleout
May 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Glorious morning with 100 other river lovers on a flotilla of punts, paddle boards, canoes and kayaks showing love for our #rivercam. Message to @anglianwater.bsky.social : try harder to #cleanitup! #camvalleyforum @sascampaigns.bsky.social #paddleoutprotest #puntandpaddleout
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Care about water and how it's "managed" in the UK?Last few days to respond to this consultation: consult.defra.gov.uk/independent-...
Independent Water Commission – Call for Evidence
- Defra
- Citizen Space
This site contains consultations that are run by Defra.
consult.defra.gov.uk
April 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Care about water and how it's "managed" in the UK?Last few days to respond to this consultation: consult.defra.gov.uk/independent-...
bit.ly/3DKLbOH
For the love of River - don't forget to come to the excellent film Rave On the Avon on Saturday 3:30pm at the Arts Picturehouse - advance tickets available. With a Q&A at the end with the film director and local water/river campaigners.
For the love of River - don't forget to come to the excellent film Rave On the Avon on Saturday 3:30pm at the Arts Picturehouse - advance tickets available. With a Q&A at the end with the film director and local water/river campaigners.
March 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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For the love of River - don't forget to come to the excellent film Rave On the Avon on Saturday 3:30pm at the Arts Picturehouse - advance tickets available. With a Q&A at the end with the film director and local water/river campaigners.
For the love of River - don't forget to come to the excellent film Rave On the Avon on Saturday 3:30pm at the Arts Picturehouse - advance tickets available. With a Q&A at the end with the film director and local water/river campaigners.
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Discovering Newmarket's forgotten chalk stream and the local people tracing its path in light and love
💫 Cambridge Festival: Rivers of Light film screening
🗓️ 3 April from 5-7pm
📍 CB3 9DP
🎟️ bit.ly/3XZsMEH
Immerse yourself in the visuals and insights from leading experts that will leave you with a newfound appreciation for the natural wonders in our own backyard
With @watersencam.bsky.social
🗓️ 3 April from 5-7pm
📍 CB3 9DP
🎟️ bit.ly/3XZsMEH
Immerse yourself in the visuals and insights from leading experts that will leave you with a newfound appreciation for the natural wonders in our own backyard
With @watersencam.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Discovering Newmarket's forgotten chalk stream and the local people tracing its path in light and love
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Rave On the Avon Film / Q&A with director Charlotte Sawyer and local clean water campaigners Anne Miller cam valley forum, Ruth Sapsed & chaired by James M-W @sky_larking. March 22nd 3:30pm, @CamPicturehouse. @CambridgePPF Get your ticket: bit.ly/3DKLbOH
March 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Rave On the Avon Film / Q&A with director Charlotte Sawyer and local clean water campaigners Anne Miller cam valley forum, Ruth Sapsed & chaired by James M-W @sky_larking. March 22nd 3:30pm, @CamPicturehouse. @CambridgePPF Get your ticket: bit.ly/3DKLbOH
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Wild swimming and designated bathing water regulations reform is high on the agenda. Debate yesterday in parliament, #southcambs MP @pippaheylings.bsky.social gave a brilliant speech. Watch the debate here.
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
March 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Wild swimming and designated bathing water regulations reform is high on the agenda. Debate yesterday in parliament, #southcambs MP @pippaheylings.bsky.social gave a brilliant speech. Watch the debate here.
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
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New #slowflow rain planters outside of 110-113 Fallowfield Cambridge. Grasses, ferns, herbs & flowers feed pollinators, while preventing 100s of litres of stormwater from overwhelming pipe & ponding at Fen Rd. Low cost #suds retrofit for climate resilient streets. #pebblefund
March 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
New #slowflow rain planters outside of 110-113 Fallowfield Cambridge. Grasses, ferns, herbs & flowers feed pollinators, while preventing 100s of litres of stormwater from overwhelming pipe & ponding at Fen Rd. Low cost #suds retrofit for climate resilient streets. #pebblefund
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💙 Charlotte Sawyer's celebration of the Bristol community, life and wild swimming in Cambridge! March 22 3:30, #picturehousegreenscreen, and #riversoffilm
The panel features fimmakers & local water loving groups. Continue conversation in the cafe afterwards. 💦
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
The panel features fimmakers & local water loving groups. Continue conversation in the cafe afterwards. 💦
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
Green Screen: Rave On For The Avon + Panel with director Charlotte Sawyer | Showtimes and Tickets
Fall in love with the River Avon and the people fighting to protect it, the Bristol way!Rave On For The Avon is a feature-length documentary film that follows campaigners and river lovers across a yea...
www.picturehouses.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
💙 Charlotte Sawyer's celebration of the Bristol community, life and wild swimming in Cambridge! March 22 3:30, #picturehousegreenscreen, and #riversoffilm
The panel features fimmakers & local water loving groups. Continue conversation in the cafe afterwards. 💦
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
The panel features fimmakers & local water loving groups. Continue conversation in the cafe afterwards. 💦
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
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Day 1 complete! Our friends at Phoenix delivered four gorgeous handmade planters to us in Fallowfield, ready to transform into #slowflow rain planters. After a day of sun, rain, mud, we'll soon be ready to plant leafy shade-loving beings here #raingardens #flowersnotfloods #pebblefund
February 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Day 1 complete! Our friends at Phoenix delivered four gorgeous handmade planters to us in Fallowfield, ready to transform into #slowflow rain planters. After a day of sun, rain, mud, we'll soon be ready to plant leafy shade-loving beings here #raingardens #flowersnotfloods #pebblefund
Watch this. The story of how California got screwed over for its water by a billionaire couple who are more commonly known for philanthropy, glitzy hollywood parties and quirky advertising.
www.pistachiowars.com
www.pistachiowars.com
Pistachio Wars
Advance Preview Release! Stream Pistachio Wars for one week only.
www.pistachiowars.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Watch this. The story of how California got screwed over for its water by a billionaire couple who are more commonly known for philanthropy, glitzy hollywood parties and quirky advertising.
www.pistachiowars.com
www.pistachiowars.com
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Proud to introduce this new project by @watersencam.bsky.social in Cambridge.
Funded by #PebbleFund for biodiversity, we'll be installing six of our #SlowFlow planters in the catchment of Fallowfield's surface water drain pipe.
Not only reducing floods, bringing back nature 🌻
youtu.be/82bCVmH0GWI
Funded by #PebbleFund for biodiversity, we'll be installing six of our #SlowFlow planters in the catchment of Fallowfield's surface water drain pipe.
Not only reducing floods, bringing back nature 🌻
youtu.be/82bCVmH0GWI
First SlowFlow Planter Installed in Fallowfield | Water Sensitive Cambridge
YouTube video by Water Sensitive Cambridge
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January 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Proud to introduce this new project by @watersencam.bsky.social in Cambridge.
Funded by #PebbleFund for biodiversity, we'll be installing six of our #SlowFlow planters in the catchment of Fallowfield's surface water drain pipe.
Not only reducing floods, bringing back nature 🌻
youtu.be/82bCVmH0GWI
Funded by #PebbleFund for biodiversity, we'll be installing six of our #SlowFlow planters in the catchment of Fallowfield's surface water drain pipe.
Not only reducing floods, bringing back nature 🌻
youtu.be/82bCVmH0GWI
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To help you get through #BlueMonday, here's a picture of some gorgeous purple wands of woodland sage being enjoyed by a carder bee in the Fallowfield Rain Gardens last year. Whatever is getting you down today, remember life persists. There will be spring.
January 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
To help you get through #BlueMonday, here's a picture of some gorgeous purple wands of woodland sage being enjoyed by a carder bee in the Fallowfield Rain Gardens last year. Whatever is getting you down today, remember life persists. There will be spring.
Last panel session of the brilliant Rewilding Futures conference right here in Cambridge. Two days of inspirational talks and workshops from global practitioners, by Citizen Zoo.
January 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Last panel session of the brilliant Rewilding Futures conference right here in Cambridge. Two days of inspirational talks and workshops from global practitioners, by Citizen Zoo.
The trials of England's first granted inland river bathing water site (2020) Ilkley Wharf. Last chance to achieve improvement.
Swimming status of Ilkley’s River Wharfe in limbo over sewage pollution
Stretch of river in West Yorkshire was first to get bathing status in 2020 but has since recorded poor water quality
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2024 at 8:06 AM
The trials of England's first granted inland river bathing water site (2020) Ilkley Wharf. Last chance to achieve improvement.
We are sad - but not at all surprised - that the River Cam at Sheep's Green was classified as "Poor". 53% of new inland river Bathing Water sites for 2024, just over half also received "poor".
Consultation on Reform of the Bathing Water Regulations 2013
- Defra
- Citizen Space
This site contains consultations that are run by Defra.
consult.defra.gov.uk
December 7, 2024 at 12:59 AM
We are sad - but not at all surprised - that the River Cam at Sheep's Green was classified as "Poor". 53% of new inland river Bathing Water sites for 2024, just over half also received "poor".
Sorry electric car owners, you too. A car is a car, tyres are still tyres. The damage we do on the living world, especially our rivers, is shocking. Now, what are we going to do about it?
28% of microplastics entering the environment annually are from tyres. Chemical additives like zinc oxide & 6PPD linked to fish die-offs and ecosystem disruption. Need for a global, targeted strategy theconversation.com/car-tyres-sh...
Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed
Tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food.
theconversation.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Sorry electric car owners, you too. A car is a car, tyres are still tyres. The damage we do on the living world, especially our rivers, is shocking. Now, what are we going to do about it?
The UK government should run a public information campaign about the facts of Climate Change. Please sign and share; at 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis
Communicate clearly:
1) the science behind the climate crisis - how & why for the first time in the last year we've averaged 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels
2) the implications of going beyond...
petition.parliament.uk
December 3, 2024 at 11:17 PM
The UK government should run a public information campaign about the facts of Climate Change. Please sign and share; at 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Industrial chicken farming is killing the River Wye, and it could kill the beautiful River Wissey too if Cranswick megafarm in Norfolk gets built.
youtube.com/shorts/5U5NP...
youtube.com/shorts/5U5NP...
Nando's, stop killing our rivers!
YouTube video by River Action UK
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December 2, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Industrial chicken farming is killing the River Wye, and it could kill the beautiful River Wissey too if Cranswick megafarm in Norfolk gets built.
youtube.com/shorts/5U5NP...
youtube.com/shorts/5U5NP...