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POSTED IN Environment, Featured ON 15 Feb 2010 | 0 comments
Lessons from a rainy kingdom
Each year in South East Asia, the months from June through October see monsoon rains, consisting of torrential daily rainfall. This is a predicable...
POSTED IN Featured, Technology ON 14 Feb 2010 | 0 comments
Good following
If you’re interested in any of the themes covered by this site, Twitter is an essential tool for research and sharing information. Some...
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...
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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
Prawn salad - I believe the phrase is 'om nom nom'. This 30 September, the Marine Stewardship Council aims...
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...
World Humanitarian Day
posted on: 19 Aug 2009 | author: Nathan
Today is UN World Humanitarian Day, celebrating the efforts of aid workers globally, but also commemorating those workers who have been injured or...
REDD
posted on: 23 Jul 2009 | author: Nathan
A fascinating article on the Washington Monthly website by (I kid you not) Rhett Butler, Big REDD is an in-depth analysis of issues around...
Sandbag
posted on: 22 Jul 2009 | author: Nathan
New website http://sandbag.org.uk/ offers a solution to carbon emissions by buying and retiring carbon credits (also known as permits to pollute)...
China’s appetite for energy
posted on: 20 Jul 2009 | author: Nathan
Each year, the Chinese economy consumes one quarter of the world’s total production of coal… …while the average person in...
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