Emissions Cuts, Green Developments: Has the New Budget Catered for Environmental Progression
Not always high on the list of questions when it comes to the ins and outs of a new government budget, the impact of shifts in public spending on potential environmental targets is nonetheless an important issue. With the new budget announced, it's imperative that discussions over its potential for ...Read More >>
UN Report Points Towards The World’s ‘Endless Cities’
Urbanisation and its inherent consequences have taken precedence in a recent UN report. The UN's agency for human settlements, UN-Habitat, has outlined the prevalence of the "endless city" as being one of the most significant and problematic phenomenons to face modern civilisation over the next fifty years...Read on to find ...Read More >>
Earthquake Sends Aftershock-Waves Felt Across The World
Recorded as one of the largest earthquakes in history, an earthquake which erupted in central Chile has torn apart bridges, highways and homes, sending a tsunami pulsing half way around the globe, leaving a nation in tatters. The head of the emergency agency in Chile commented that residents were tossed about ...Read More >>
Eastern Promise Looks West To UK For Turbine Deal
Mitsubishi, the Japanese engineering firm, has been reported in confirming that it is considering several sites in the UK to build 'a giant factory to test the largest wind turbines in the world.' According to Sky News, the international manufacturers is looking to build an offshore wind test site off the ...Read More >>
Electric Cars Given A Boost By Government Grants
Whether it is an insightful move to warmly welcome a carbon saving solution that will, no doubt, make good use of all the 'clean' electricity that the Government plans to be generating by 2020, or whether it is a sure reaction to the rapid developments that have taken place for ...Read More >>
Climate Rush: Deeds Not Words – The Film
"I think that in society there must have been crisis points, moments when a generation realises that something was wrong and that something needed to change. Otherwise that wrong would keep getting worse and, actually, humanity would be meaningless and the world would be a difficult place. This government is ...Read More >>
Traces of DDT Found in Blood of Children in South America
The Pan American Health Organization has published findings which indicate that DDT – the controversial pesticide famously used for the repression of Malaria and Typhus during World War 2 – is present in the bloodstream of several central and southern Americans, and particularly in children. Found in rural communities where agricultural ...Read More >>
Fashion Week Finds ‘Fair’ Favourites
Once upon a time most of London's high-end boutiques would take their seasonal seats along the flanks of the capital's cat walks and wait for the latest and wonderfully creative cuts of clothing that year had dreamt up - what ever the cost! Nowadays - at long last - fashion ...Read More >>
Economist Sustainability Summit 2010 – One of the Environmental Highlights of the Year
This year's Economist Sustainability Summit 2010 is big news: taking place today, it has already been announced that over 30 CEOs and VP's will attend the conference. A real coup for the organisers, the excitement is ...Read More >>
Power Stations Ready to Back Coal Fired Power – Government Could Miss Targets
Drax power station, Britain's strongest, biggest and most famous carbon power station, has scrapped plans to move substantial portions of its output for power generation to green energy and renewable power sources. Whilst the plant will move much of its capabilities towards renewable and green energy, as has always been the ...Read More >>
Coral Reefs Disintegrating: Rising Carbon Dioxide Poses New Threats
A group of scientists have outlined a new and rising threat from the increase of carbon dioxide levels in the Earth's atmosphere. Scientists, based in Stanford University, California, have turned the environmental eye towards the shape and life cycles of our oceans. The threat comes from the increased levels of ...Read More >>
UN Report Puts Pressure on Companies with Evidence of Environmental Damage Ready for Scrutiny
It could be quite understandably argued that – of the two major forms of pollution and environmental damage, industrial and individual – industrial environmental damage is a far greater threat to global society, and should be held to much greater account than the lifestyle choices of that global society’s individuals. That ...Read More >>
US Scheme for Energy Efficient Homes Reaches 2% of its Total Goal
Barack Obama, whose presidency has been marked for some by failure of expectation and for others by historic steps away from his predocessors, has made a number of promises on the environmental front. Including a seemingly active role at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit - which brought China and the US ...Read More >>
Ecological reasons to save English Heritage with a Holiday
Once again it is approaching that time of the year when we start to think about planning a little summer holiday treat to help brighten up those last remaining gloomy days of the (it seems) everlasting winter period. It's with no real surprise that the MPs at number 10 haven't quite ...Read More >>
Are Recycling Efforts Really Winning Podium Places at the Winter Olympics?
After the media coverage of China’s dubious environmental policy around the Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008, it seems that the Vancouver Winter Olympics are as contrasted in that respect as the two different climates of the respective games. In Beijing, Chinese environmental policy dominated pre-games media reports, shadowed only by the ...Read More >>
Date Looms For High Emissions Bill Amendment
On Wednesday 24 February, a key date in the ecological calender, MPs will be given the legislatory floor to determine a Bill amendment (made over four years ago) which could take an active role in driving out high emissions by law. Ecowarriors up and down the country have been keeping a ...Read More >>
Early Reports Question Integrity of Animal Welfare Standards for Meat Sold Across the UK
Britain was once called a nation of shopkeepers; it is also a nation of meat eaters. With a strong agricultural history, British farms have long been known for their cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry and British farms have often received substantial press coverage; sometimes admirably, other times worryingly, British farmers ...Read More >>
2010 Winter Olympic Games goes green
The 2010 Winter Olympic Games are starting today in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, Western Canada. With their determination to "go green" the Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) have offset carbon emissions and are encouraging ...Read More >>
Massage in London – a review
EVER HEARD OF AN ECO MASSAGE IN LONDON? OR AN ETHICAL MASSAGE? You can now book for a massage in Notting Hill Gate, that not only delivers you some great health benefits, but one which is also good for ...Read More >>
Carbon Tax in France Stalls In Constitutional Court
Nicholas Sarkozy, the French President, has seen a carbon tax - that would have pushed up prices on fuel and petrol, as well as central heating use - pushed out of the French constitutional court. The rejection of legislation leading to the carbon tax, a major blow in the French ...Read More >>
A Tough Job on Climate Change – The Progression of the Copenhagen Deal
We've been waiting months for the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference to kick off, and now after the first week draws to a close, it seems that the dissensions and rumblings about the potential effectiveness of the deal that dominated the build up ...Read More >>
Environmental Greens Concerns Over Copenhagen – Can Leaders Reach an Effective Deal
After much anticipation and discussion, the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit is now less than one week away. World leaders and ministers - including US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minster Gordon Brown and Energy Minister Ed Miliband, and Indian Environment Minister Jairam ...Read More >>
Wind Energy in Shandong: China Datang builds 50 MW Wind-Plant
The Chinese state owned power producer, China Datang Corporation, began construction of its fourth wind power plant in eastern China's Shandong province. The site's capacity of 49.5 MW is situated in Qingdao city and has received 500 million yuan of investment. Read on to find out more...Read More >>
Green Resources- India Looks To Oceanic Energy With Help Of UK
The Times of London reported today of a new deal between a small, UK-based tidal energy company, Atlantis Resources, and the government of India, in a plan which hopes to harness the energy of the seas around India for the first time. The ...Read More >>
Green Sustainability Moving Ahead For India With New Government Action
The government of India is to set up a 'national environment protection authority'- designed to implement and monitor green laws- within two months, the Indian minister of environment and forests, Jairam Ram, has confirmed. A "whole new direction" is being promised for the ...Read More >>
Green Sector Backed by Al Gore, at Green Building Conference
The environmental defender, Nobel Laureate, and previous vice-president of the United States of America, Al Gore, spoke to the US Green Building Council (USGBC) Greenbuild International Conference and Expo this month in Phoenix, Arazona, in a talk that specified the importance of a ...Read More >>
Green Electricity Rules Relaxed For Electric Cars As London Prepares For Change
The electric car has seen its steady augmentation over recent years. Governmental moves towards 'greener' energy sources and legislation have encouraged a jump within the ecological market and the positive effects of developing sustainable technologies. As 'grey' energy clouds begin to clear, we are starting to see 'clean' patches of ...Read More >>
US Must Lead the Way to a Deal at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit
The power of the US in the second half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st, has led to its attribution as the world's first 'hyperpower'; not content with the term superpower, commentators and political thinkers have argued ...Read More >>
World Leaders Lacking in Open Mindedness Before Copenhagen
The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference is fast approaching. The anticipation surrounding the event has generated a vast media landscape over the preceding months, so that the summit is now at the centre of political tensions. That anticipation, though, has slowly given way ...Read More >>
