Which country has the greenest bailout? You’ll be surprised. China scores very well, South Korea is top of the list in percentage terms, Europe is OK, but the US, which could do so well from an energy security perspective as well as an economic one, lags. See the handy FT graphic here in Which country …
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Category:5 Environment
Black is the new green,
A popular article from the FT describing the benefits of adding charcoal to the soil. Eprida is commercialising this technology. And we add charcoal to the compost/soil when we have it. Black is the new green By Fiona Harvey In Brazil’s Amazon basin, farmers have long sought out a special form of fertiliser – a …
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Global Warming Protest
Our planet – cool, but warm …
Calendar year 2008 was the coolest year since 2000, according to the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) analysis of worldwide temperature measurements, but it was still in the top ten warmest years since the start of record-keeping in 1880. Given the range of uncertainty in the measurements, the GISS team concluded that 2008 …
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Planet catastrophe looming – you must be the change now.
The World Watch Institute State of the world report 2009 focuses on the need to change systems now in order to avert destruction of our planet. Into A Warming World highlights evidence that climate volatility is increasing and the only solution is to redress the balance of carbon emissions. Humanity must absorb more carbon dioxide …
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Melting planet.
Another graphic reminder of the speed with which our planet is melting is shown in these two photos of Antarctica, taken less than a month apart. 13 December 2008 2 January 2009
Hot and cold in the wrong places – Earth’s got pneumonia!
Maybe it’s about time for a reminder about climate volatility. Recently I browsed a set of satellite photos which illustrate the extraordinary pressure we are putting on our planet, evidenced by climate volatility. The first two show the wasting if the Humbolt glacier, the third shows snow covering the southern USA. (Click the images to …
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Urban car clubs taking off …?
Hertz, which buys half a million cars annually is about to launch a car club to serve people that live in cities and would like access to a car without teh cost and trouble of owning one. This initative is very encouraging. If it works well it should remove cars from the streets of cities, …
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Babies – to make them or not to make them?
The problems of the world are underpinned by an excesisve population of humans. The exponential growth in human population has been driven by the oil age which has fuelled food and healthcare. The consequence is that the footprint of humanity is too great for the biosphere. The carrying capacity of the earth has been exceeded. …
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Save the banks, but let the biosphere die.
The planet is now so vandalised that only total energy renewal can save us is a passionate article highlighting the urgency of changing our consumption patterns by George Monbiot in The Guardian. The article outlines the accelerating climate change that has now reached beyond the modest changes discussed a decade ago. Today the volatility in …
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