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Christian Social Union halts Germany’s enviroment plans
Since the 1990’s Germany’s Environmetal party has struggled to unify the 16 states on water and land use An effort to unify the environmental planning approval for industry across Germany’s 16 states has failed apparantly due to the...
Obamas car emission crack down
Monday saw President Barack Obama take his first of many promised actions agaisnt climate change by forcing U.S car makers to create fuel efficent cars in the future. He said “Today, I’m announcing the first steps on our journey toward en...
Top 5 ‘Super Bugs’
Bacteria generally gets a lot of very bad press; if it isn’t in the news for causing an outbreak of Salmonella it’s wiping out whole farm communities livelihoods, by destroying their crops and livestock. But, there is another side to our familiar...
We love eating fish in the UK
We eat fish because it makes us clever, we eat fish because we like the taste and we eat fish due to its healthy properties. Only one of the above is true - guess which one. Sorry, I’ve been absent for a week, I’ve been working on a few things.. ...
The story of Stuff
Click on the image below to go through to the video, it takes a little time to load but it is worth it. Why not pop back and share your veiws with us after. Annie Leonard and Share/Save...
War on the environment
Even the smallest nuclear conflict would have a terrible effect Just when you might have thought it was ethically sound to unleash a nuclear attack on a nearby city, along comes a pesky scientist and points out that atomic warfare is bad for the clim...
Top ten Eco ideas of 2008
2008 good for 10 eco friendly reasons 1. MICRO ALGAE AS FUEL Micro Algae or Oilgae as it is otherwise known isnt the prettiest thing to come out of 2008, but i think it’s lovely, its green it doubles its size every hour and it isnt fussy where...
Omnivore to Vegan – Day One of Ali’s 30 Day Vegan Pledge
As you may already know from previous posts, all inspired by Claire’s example, I decided to take on a vegan diet. I did my first vegan day today, 1st January 2009, of thirty days of veganism, in accordance with The Vegan Society’s Vegan Pledg...
The real cost of windfarms - part 2
How do wind turbines work? Humans have been harnessing the winds energy for oooooh a very long time indeedy, the egyptians first used wind power by it capturing in the sails of their boats and traveling up the nile, then around 200 BC the Persian wer...
The real cost of windfarms - part 1
The Loch-luichart wind farm gets the GREEN flag In an effort to make our very own bonny Scotland the green energy captial of Europe, a 17 turbine wind farm has been given the go ahead in the area of Loch-luchart. It is estimated that the new developm...
TESCO hides behind shoppers
Vacum sealing the planet On breakfast TV this morning Tesco defended its use of packaging 5 clementines in a BOX by saying “people like something nice to put on the table at xmas”. When asked why they don’t simply charge for carrier...
Super green Concrete that eats pollution
Eco Concrete Just got back from a Geeky SEO pub quiz (Search Engine Optimisation) for those who arent geeky, and i decided to browse the news. After all those search questions i fancied a little culture and stumbled across an interesting article abou...
EEF Support Birmingham International Airport expansion
In the aftermath of PLANE STUPID another runway goes ahead The manufacturers’ group, the Engineering Employers’ Federation (EEF), welcomed the councillors’ decision but the Green Party called it a “disastrous decision”. ...
Hathor the Cowgoddess Rocks
The petrol crisis in the UK appears to have dialled down, for now, but when I stumbled upon this cartoon, I laughed out loud. This drawing almost perfectly maps the pattern of my reaction to the rising price of petrol in particular, and that of my ec...
Oxfam Urge Us to “Face the Music” on Climate Change
I have never been much into activism - it always seemed like too many issues to get to grips with - too confusing - I felt like I never really had the time. So now I am trying to get my head around all this stuff, so that I can get involved, somehow....
