The environment & green issues

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Sat 1st May 2010:

Innovative British electric bikes

From gocycle - http://www.gocycle.com/

Thu 2nd Jul 2009:

Green your home

The Guardian is tracking a bunch of people installing solar power and so on.

Sun 16th Nov 2008:

Green wash?

I looked at the Ecotricity web site today, and was surprised to see them dissing fellow green supplier Good Energy, claiming that they're not installing any new green capacity. More than this bitchiness, what surprised me is that Ecotricity aren't even 100% green.

Thu 30th Oct 2008:

'R' #2 - Reuse

Looking for fire hoses, I fell over inhabitat.com and in turn a variety of interesting products made from unexpected things, or refreshing takes on the mundane.

Mon 29th Sep 2008:

Oooh! High speed rail plans. By the Conservatives!

The Conservatives are pledging to scrap the third Heathrow runway and spend £20Bn (£4.4Bn private money) on a high speed rail link from London to Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds.

Fri 20th Jun 2008:

Green numbers

Important decisions need to be based on facts, not dogma, fiction, myth, opinion, or FUD. They also need to be made: I cite the lack of sound and substantial UK energy policy in the last .. generation?

Sun 15th Jun 2008:

Practical green legislation

Reading about universal power supplies for gadgets, I found out that China requires all mobile phone chargers (including imports) to charge via a standard USB interface. Consumers then don't need a new charger with every phone.

Fri 21st Mar 2008:

Low-plastics diet

There's a ten metre deep, 100 million tonne soup of plastics swirling around in the pacific ocean. Marine life is frequently found to have ingested plastic objects; the Indie went on to look at how we could cut plastic out of our shopping diets.

Sun 17th Feb 2008:

There is no plan B

Marks and Spencer's enthusiastic embrace of green issues appears, in my opinion, to be little more than a marketing wheeze. Bournemouth Council has taken it hook line and sinker, putting M&S branded waste/recyclables bins across the town.

Sun 30th Dec 2007:

Foaming at the mouth

Remarkable how people will pay £1.90 and spend their Sunday reading political literature, but the stuff they get for free goes in the bin. One always knows where one is with the Telegraph!

Sun 19th Aug 2007:

Computers: reuse, don't recycle

I already knew that computers were incredibly nasty to the environment. The amount of kit being turned over in the West prompts, actually, a very obvious question: why are we trying to make new $100 computers to help poorer countries, when we're throwing away stacks of better performing kit ourselves?

Tue 31st Jul 2007:

Electric cars and renewable energy.

Very interesting article, linked below, about a Norwegian company that is building electric cars. No wait. Please don't go away ...

Sun 22nd Jul 2007:

You can't cut carbon by talking about it.

Back in April, Spain's cabinet approved 170 measures to makes 'concrete' progress cutting carbon.

Floods: blame someone else

Coverage of the floods is implying that 'people' (ie the press) are looking for someone to blame. "Flood failures: Ministers 'mishandled crisis'" - from the Torygraph.

Thu 28th Jun 2007:

Oil and Canals. Is there any strategy?

Two random pieces from the Sunday paper. BP recently published the 'Statistical Review of World Energy' which highlights the rapid decline in North Sea Oil. And British Waterways have shut down the team that ran their freight business.

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