Posted on August 20th 2008
Posted by Ben
The UK might be doing remarkably well at the Olympics but elsewhere we are doing even better - we are actually top of a league:
1. UK 27m
2. Italy 20m
3. Spain 17m
4. France 13m
5. Germany 10m
Looks good doesn’t it? The problem is this is a league table of Europe’s top five dumpers of household […]
Posted on August 11th 2008
Posted by Ben
There is an old saying ‘where there’s muck there’s brass’ and a couple of years ago in a fairly relaxed state in a public house, I surmised that in the future clever entrepreneurs would be mining landfill sites for all sorts of thrown away goodies because the cost of raw materials would rocket as scarce materials ran out. […]
Posted on August 10th 2008
Energy companies are set to scoop larger windfall profits from emissions trading than originally predicted, according to new estimates from the regulator Ofgem with the bserver saying that it will be consumers who could end up bankrolling most of this windfall through higher fuel bills. The energy industry stands to make £11bn over the next five […]
Posted on August 9th 2008
South Londoner Andy Pag is organising a rally from London to Athens which is a road race with a difference as all the entrants will be in cars which rely on waste products as their fuel and drivers will have to scavenge their used cooking oil en-route to get to to the Greek capital. And […]
Posted on July 28th 2008
Has the cost of fuel signed the death warrant for the in-flight magazine - those strange magazines you can pick up free on a plane? A number of airlines including Japan Airlines and North West Airlines have announced that they are shrinking their onboard mags, but Emirates have just announced they will be scrapping their inflight magazine on […]
Posted on July 27th 2008
Sainsbury’s chief executive Justin King has told the Observer newspaper that whilst plastic bags were ‘inconic’ in the fight against waste is the disposable society, they were not top of his green agenda. Justin King told the newspaper that” plastic bags are inconic, I accept that” but added “but they are iconic, not material. In […]
Posted on July 26th 2008
One of Britain’s most windswept schools has taken advantage of its position on an exposed Cornish headland to reduce its electricity bills by up to 90 per cent. The Times (Friday July 25th) reports that Gorran School, near St Austell, has attracted £55,000 in grants to install a 50ft (15m) wind turbine in a corner of […]
Posted on June 30th 2008
Each week millions upon millions of exuberant human beings head out of their houses and into nightclubs to expend large amounts of energy on the dance-floor. Mobilising vast social groups each and every week clubbing remains one of the few areas of society untouched by the green message. All this is about to change as […]
Posted on June 23rd 2008
John Vidal, environment editor The Guardian, Saturday June 21, 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/21/renewableenergy.carbonemissions
Revealed: UK’s blueprint for a green revolution· Massive increase in wind power planned
· One in four homes to have solar heating
· Owners may be forced to insulate homes
3,500 turbines would be built across the UK in the next 12 years under the government’s renewable energy […]
Posted on June 20th 2008
The Times, Friday June 20th 2008. Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent
£100m city hubs plan for cyclists to get Britain on two wheels
Disappearing into a broom cupboard with a sweaty red face and wearing Lycra shorts, only to reappear moments later in a suit, but still with a sweaty red face, is a daily ritual for many […]