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Scotland goes "all in"
Reader submitted"The new Scottish Government's 2020 renewable electricity target has been raised to 100 per cent", First Minister Alex Salmond said today as he pledged to move "still faster and further" to secure Scotland's place as ...
Carbon credits and forestry
Reader submittedOur family has a forestry plantation set up for retirement funds, the first 'crop' is a few years from harvest and the funds made from this are for my parents' retirement and to replant the ...
Food miles
Healthy Food Guide editor Niki Bezzant wrote to us from the Crave Sydney International Food Festival, describing a new trend in eco-conscious eating: the 100 mile meal. “It's clearly a trend for restaurants on both sides ...
Putting carbon emissions in perspective
This is one site you need to check out. It's got an amazing visualisation of New York City’s carbon emissions – watch as a day’s worth of CO2 smothers the Big Apple! This really puts the carbon ...
Stop global warming – by fracking??
Forget Kyoto, let’s stop global warming with fracking, argues Dieter Helm in his book The Carbon Crunch: How We’re Getting Climate Change Wrong—and How to Fix It. This fascinating piece in the Economist explains Helm’s ideas, ...
Using waste wood from the logging industry for energy generation – is it a good idea?
The idea of using energy from wood waste is being pushed on the EECA’s Business website (EECA stands for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority – they’re a government organisation). The claim is that using waste wood ...
Are man-made trees the way of the future?
Just found these 'supertrees' in Singapore. This picture is from a year ago, by now they should have solar panels to light the park below, hanging gardens and rainwater catchments. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009458/Singapore-supertrees-How-giant-concrete-metal-woodland-towering-horizon.html