Browsing All posts tagged under »Environment«

“Let’s March”

August 14, 2009

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Surprising.  Interesting.  And with jokes.  Not the Gordon Brown we’ve grown up with… Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good | Video on TED.com.

Keep on movin’

August 14, 2009

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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

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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.

I Don’t Want One Of Those

August 4, 2009

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70% of all food produced is not consumed It was back in May last year that The Independent ran an article looking at the inordinate amount of perfectly good food thrown out each year in the UK.  Since then there have been a number of interesting, and more mainstream, TV programmes about the same subject […]

The role of HE in tackling climate change

August 3, 2009

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This week sees the launch of a new Consultation on a carbon reduction target and strategy for higher education in England, a joint initiative by HEFCE, Universities UK and GuildHE. The aim of the strategy is to make use of the HE sector in the UK to tackle climate change in a number of ways: […]

Experiencing culture shock when moving abroad

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