Perhaps appropriately, I’ve been a little slow to mention this (I thought it was last weekend and I’d missed it, but it runs for a fortnight) - Slow Down London is a festival of slow living, encouraging Londoners to drop the pace and enjoy their lives more. Slow Down London runs until the 4th of [...]
Archive | April, 2009
The State of the World Atlas, by Dan Smith
Perhaps not normally the kind of thing I review, but I’ve been browsing the State of the World Atlas over the last couple of days. It is a ‘survey of current events and global trends’, and draws on ‘world level statistics, expressed visually as far as possible’. The result is an intriguing overview of the [...]
Westmill – the community-owned wind farm
Last month the UK’s largest community-owned wind farm celebrated one year of power generation. Westmill Wind Farm was commissioned in March last year, its five turbines providing power for 2,500 homes. It is situated on an old airfield in Oxfordshire, and is entirely owned by the local people. The wind farm was financed by a [...]
Will economic growth be the defining debate of the century?
“It is neither economically necessary nor ethically responsible to stop or drastically slow economic growth to manage climate change. Not only would it be analytically unsound, it would also pose severe ethical difficulties and be so politically destructive as to fail as policy.” Lord Nicholas Stern “I start from the bedrock principle that we as [...]
What we learned this week
Obama has announced a series of railway building initiatives in the US. About time. I’m not the only one who’s put the UK national debt and peak oil together. “The strategy of creating money now, stimulating economic activity and putting off the problem into the future has run its course” says the Ecologist. Oil is [...]
The Transition Timeline, by Shaun Chamberlin
I read the Transition Handbook only a few weeks ago, so I was curious to see how this one differed. Apparently it was written with existing Transition initiatives in mind, particularly those working on ‘energy descent action plans’ (EDAP). The EDAP is the ultimate goal of any Transition project – to create a detailed and [...]
The 2009 budget
So Alastair Darling has commended his budget to the house, and we’re all left to sift through the details and see whether or not the chancellor got it right. The headlines are all about the return of old Labour, taxing the rich, and the huge levels of debt. So how does the budget shape up [...]
support your local bees
As you may be aware, bee populations across the world have been in freefall over the last couple of years. The West Coast of the US has lost 70% of its bees, the East Coast 60%. British bees succumbed a little later, and last year 1 in 3 bees vanished. The disappearances are known as [...]
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