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POSTED IN Environment, Featured ON 13 Nov 2009 | 0 comments
The Nasca and us
Ancient civilisations usually don’t get wiped out by just one thing, but the Rapa Nui of Easter Island and the Nasca of Peru both appear to...
POSTED IN Environment, Featured ON 19 Aug 2009 | 8 comments
Carbon and Copenhagen
The EU Emissions Trading System has failed to drive real action on carbon emissions. With the Copenhagen climate change conference approaching, what...
POSTED IN Environment, Featured ON 10 Mar 2009 | 0 comments
Of all the ways to save the world…
Toilet paper. Really quite overrated. When Christian Wolmar wrote an article on Guardian’s Comment Is Free recently appealing for people to...
POSTED IN Featured, Technology ON 8 Feb 2009 | 0 comments
Development on Twitter
“What is Twitter?” I was asked the other day in work, with the emphasis on the is, said in the rather exasperated tone of someone who has...
POSTED IN Environment, Featured, Technology ON 18 May 2007 | 0 comments
Carbon neutral with that?
Some CO2. Bad, bad CO2. Naughty. Lucy Siegle points out in today’s Observer that everything is going ‘carbon neutral’. Offset anything from...
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The real Na’vi
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Fauna & Flora at Copenhagen
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Sustainable palm oil? There’s no such thing.
Palm tree. Output of crude palm oil has increased 400% since 1990. Were you hoping that the cosmetics or...
5 less than useful things to say at Copenhage...
With the Copenhagen climate change conference now only five days away, I thought I might offer some guidance to...
Responsibletravel.com drops carbon offsetting
Ethical travel company responsibletravel.com has dropped carbon offsetting as an option on the holidays it sells,...
Climate change and the future
This article on Science Daily discusses a recent study by scientists at Boston University into the effects on trees,...
Are you optimistic about the future?
I’ve just finished an Environment course with the Open University, and have only just got over the relief of...
Put a little sustainable fishy on your dishy
posted on: 27 Aug 2009 | author: Nathan
Prawn salad - I believe the phrase is 'om nom nom'. This 30 September, the Marine Stewardship Council aims to promote sustainable seafood...
One decade, 20000 orangutans killed
posted on: 26 Aug 2009 | author: Nathan
A chained orangutan (Image - Centre for Orangutan Protection) A report just released by UK organisation Nature Alert in partnership with the Centre...
thelondonpaper closing 18 September
posted on: 20 Aug 2009 | author: Nathan
Thousands of commuters are at risk of having to look at each other on the way home. One of several free newspapers distributed in London with a...
