I think it’s great to see one’s future king involved in projects like this. See rainforestSOS for more information.
Archive | May, 2009
Smart meters in every UK home by 2020
Some good news yesterday on energy efficiency – smart meters are to be fitted in every home in the UK by 2020. This is a good thing for a whole bundle of reasons: 1. You will be able to see your gas and electricity use in real time, and see what you are actually paying [...]
Cartaret Islands: The first climate change evacuation
The Ecologist has been following events on the Cartaret Islands over the past couple of weeks. The whole population of 2,600 people is being re-located, in what is perhaps the first official climate change evacuation. The tiny islands near Papua New Guinea have suffered from the encroaching sea levels for several years, with high tides [...]
Good news on ethical fashion: the sustainable clothing action plan
London Fashion Week passed me by a few weeks back, but if I had been paying a bit more attention I’d have heard about the government’s Sustainable Clothing Action Plan a little sooner. As we’ve mentioned before, fashion is a deeply wasteful and polluting industry. Fashion addicts are just as bad as their favourite brands, [...]
What we learned this week
This week I have discovered the following interesting things about Luton: Luton has more cab drivers per person than any other town in the UK. The biggest employer in Luton is the airport. Peak oil will be particularly bad news for the town. Luton has historically been a centre for bee-keeping and honey production, and [...]
Define ‘alarmism’: Swine flu and the global media
Coming and going through London this past week I’ve seen these headlines in the city’s free papers: City on swine flu red alert as emergency planners warn 94,000 could die in London alone. Swine flu is in London and set to spread through overcrowded Underground system, experts believe. Danger of London grinding to a halt [...]
50 cars or 1 bus
Here’s a nice idea from a Swedish airport shuttle service. Each of their coaches could take fifty cars off the road, so to make their point they took fifty crushed cars and made themselves a giant bus. The sculpture sits on the side of the highway to the airport, to shame those driving past in [...]
Is your bank financing the arms industry?
If you bank with Barclays, Lloyds TSB, Halifax, HSBC, or Royal Bank of Scotland, then the answer is yes. The UK is the world’s second largest exporter of arms, after the US. British arms companies exported £53 billion worth of weaponry in the past five years, to countries including Saudi Arabia, Colombia, and Israel. Like [...]
Beyond Globalization, by Hazel Henderson
A few weeks ago the nef office was having a clearout, and they kindly let me drop by and plunder their overstock of old reports. I came away with as many reports (actually slightly more) than I could comfortably carry back to Luton, and among them was Hazel Henderson’s little book ‘Beyond Globalization – Shaping [...]
In Transition: the transition towns movie
In Transition will premiere on saturday 23rd at the Transition Towns conference in Battersea, and online here. (not there yet) “A film about change, about hope, In Transition shows a practical vision for creating a post consumer society, where ordinary people make a difference.”
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