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Does it have to be rocket science?

November 30, 2009

Working in an industry where innovation is all too often applauded for its own sake, it makes me wonder to what extent we are all drawn to the shiny and new, even when the old and reliable is still, well, reliable? Some recent thinking on Cloud Whitening may be about to confirm my thoughts. It […]

Is being green a new religion?

November 9, 2009

There are the obvious stereotypical parallels: a penchant for sandals, a preponderance of beards and a professed love of world peace, but recent events at an employment tribunal go some way to suggesting a green lifestyle might more properly be thought of as tantamount to religious, or certainly, philosophical in their nature. In the case in […]

Government to provide green work placements

October 28, 2009

The US is going large on wind power and it’s not just hot air. I was interested in an article yesterday in Green Futures showing that the USA has now overtaken Germany as the largest producer of wind energy and is forging ahead with innovation in wind and solar, with Texas at the van. The conditions […]

Climate Camp – location revealed

August 26, 2009

One of the great things about this morning’s (so far peaceful) cat and mouse start to Climate Camp has been the way the media and police were kept guessing as to the eventual location. Yes, I know it annoyed Jack Straw and others and, in the greater sense of doing good by everybody, the organisers should really have […]

Novel gym membership idea from Waitrose in disguise?

August 26, 2009

Can’t help but wonder if tricks are being missed all over the developed world. People are spending large amounts of pounds (£££) to divest themselves of large amounts of pounds (lbs), largely because they’ve spent too many of the former on eating too many of the latter in the first place. The easy answer is not […]

Love food, hate waste campaign

August 19, 2009

Always up for a campaign with downloadable tools – especially ones that go whizz. Let’s hope the campaign can be as interactive as the button.

Keep on movin’

August 14, 2009

It’s approaching the mid-point of my Walking August and an update is well overdue, so here goes. Weekend One The first weekend started inauspiciously since I was out with family on both days and managed an average of just 10,859 steps per day (I’m using a Fitbug to monitor steps so my 500km translates into […]

“Radical rethink needed on food”

August 10, 2009

I wonder how radical, radical really is? Saying no to fish? Investing in Vertical Farms? An explosion of closed loop recycling? Expansion of allotment land? Let’s see, shall we? BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | ‘Radical rethink’ needed on food.